February 2012
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Ba-Bump
My friend Kit and I are trying to get each other to draw more - and post more. Today, we had our friend Les tell us the FIRST word that was in his mind. He lied and told us it was “crap,” but then admitted it was, in fact, “ba-bump.”
Here’s the result of Doodle Buddy Challenge No. 2!
Kit and I agreed ba-bump is WAY better, so the seeds for our drawings, which were...
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Kit Chokly Bar
I’ve got a coworker with a great last name. She and I are going to try and keep each other drawing for awhile.
Edit: This was the first installment of the Doodle Buddy Challenge; Kit and I both felt we needed motivation to keep drawing, so we challenged each other to keep going.
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Homework?! You must have meant fart joke.
This is the type of thing I’d draw at school when I was asked to seriously analyze a problem and come up with an industrial design solution.
January 2012
3 posts
heinoushenry asked: would you rather have gills on your neck and be able to breathe under water or have wings for arms and be able to fly?
heinoushenry asked: would you rather have an adult head and baby body or baby head and adult body?
heinoushenry asked: would you rather have mini fingers coming out of the tips of your regular fingers or ears that could taste what they hear?
November 2011
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The Brave Salad
This is a little doodle I did one day. Not sure why I chose salad, but something felt “right” about this scenario.
I like to think he won somehow.
October 2011
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Dr. Fraunbrau and Mr. Squintly
May I present: Dr. Fraunbrau and Mr. Squintly.
I don’t think I intended for these two to be on the same page, necessarily, but here are two characters I made up that involve weird eye configurations.
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Robo Crab
This was a doodle I made the other day. Made me laugh.
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Going Google
A couple of weeks ago, OCADU’s student email changed over from its old, clunky interface to a Google Apps setup. I was asked to design posters, web graphics and handbills to inform students of the change.
It was also my first time working with the new OCADU graphic identity, so it was interesting to find a way to make something both eye-catching and simple to properly use the new...
September 2011
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Ryan and the Wizard
The Grandma’s Virginity Podcast is one of my favourite things to listen to (usually while playing Minecraft.) It’s a podcast put on by Justin Roiland, Ryan Ridley, sometimes Jackie Buscarino. It features a wide cast of characters, and usually some improvised scenes acted out by whoever feels like it at the time.
One such scene was one in which Ryan was essentially forced to choose...
August 2011
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General Discomfort and/or Embarassment
I’ve been feeling this way a lot lately.
June 2011
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CouchPigDog in SPAAAAACE!!!
This is my second drawing for the 4th Annual Super Mario Marathon for Child’s Play Charity. It’s based on a request from the chat for a hybrid of Couch Dog, Couch Pig and they wanted it in space!
Elmo was a thing that happened late last night - there was a scary Tickle Me Elmo that freaked everyone out with the way it moved.
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The Raccoon Suit
This is a Fan Art submission for the 4th Annual Mario Marathon for Child’s Play Charity. There are a bunch of people playing every Super Mario game LIVE, right now, on www.mariomarathon.com!
Donations buy new toys, books and video games for sick children that are stuck in hospitals. It’s a worthy cause if you have a few spare bucks. Go on and check it out!
This is my first...
Bikey the Horse
This horse is the result of a dream my friend Juan Carlos had in which one of our friends, Banafsheh made a bicycle from a horse.
This drawing is a transcription of what he dreamed Banafsheh had made.
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Angry Dude
This was the first time I put the words “Something Else” down on paper.
This drawing was done because an event happened in my life that I desperately wanted to participate in, but a circumstance beyond my control prevented me from being where I wanted to be at the time.
This is all part of being a grown-up, and frankly, I count myself among the luckiest people on this planet....
May 2011
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Raising Awareness
People don’t read. I worked for a long time at various service jobs, and the one thing that sticks out in my mind, as a design challenge, is that people just don’t read things. Could be the sign is there to prevent a loss of life or injury, but chances are it will forever go unread. At my office, we have some rules that were going to be enforced for the first time ever, and I took it...
April 2011
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Designing for a Client
When you make a contract to design for a client, it’s an amazing feeling. You take a look at what you’ve got to do and break it down into steps, prioritize what needs to be done, and you SKETCH like mad! You come up with all kinds of fanciful ideas - then take a step back and look at it, analyzing it over and over - until you have something to show the client: your first proposal.
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Cat Carry
This thing took awhile to figure out, but I like to think that if it were real, you could actually get it to work the way it should.
It’s a drawing of a thing I call the “Cat Carry,” ‘cause its movement is based on the way cats walk. They move both legs on one side of their body before moving over to the other side, and their paws directly register - that is to say,...
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Lisa's Birthday/Drawing a Girl
I’ve always had difficulty drawing girls. I don’t think this is an uncommon affliction among male cartoonists, either. I don’t know what it is about them, either; every time I try, I get the age wrong, or they end up looking drugged-out or something. Until time came to draw a picture for Lisa’s birthday card, anyway.
My friend Lisa is a rather distinctive-looking girl...
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Cotton Weave/iPod Drawing
This drawing was done for my friend Lisa to be included in a project she did last year. I had to draw an object that meant something to me (if I recall correctly….) My iPod is something Shally gave to me for my birthday, and it’s one of just a few things that I use absolutely all day, every day, so I picked it to be my object for this project.
It was also an exercise in figuring out...
March 2011
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Pony Car
Horses make me laugh. I don’t know what it is about the word, or the way they look to me, but there’s just something funny about them. It’s the ultimate comedy animal. Such goofy, long faces, knobby knees, names like “Father’s Ambivalence,” and the word “horse” itself blend together to make an instant punchline.
You want something to be funnier?...
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Depth of Field Frame
Shally lives 10,590.33km away from me, though that hasn’t always been the case. She and I have been together for more than 4 years, now. I kind of miss her a lot. I decided that I should put a picture of her next to me at work, on the wall - not anything ridiculously large, but a small reminder for me that she’s out there somewhere.
I had a photograph she sent me from her mobile...
sharonacles asked: What's the square root of 10,897?
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The Cats
I did a doodle of some cats the other week that I thought I should colour in. I was playing around with the Reddit “look of disapproval” and drew cats to go along with it.
I like to imagine what they’re looking at.
This drawing was another try at using texture in a background, and also in trying a new way to colour stuff in. I’ve been experimenting with using brushes...
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The Campfire
I did this drawing to teach myself how to play around with using texture in Photoshop. The sky is a layer of blue over a photograph of some old paper I found on the internet. All I did was play around with layer modes and I knew I was looking at a night sky.
Until I figured out how to do this, thanks to my pal Taj, I was just drawing textures in manually. This was time consuming, to say the...
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Wayfinding 1
I work front-line support in an AV Help Desk at OCADU. I spend a lot of time in that room, and I have to answer a lot of questions; sometimes it’s the same question over and over. For example, faculty members frequently forget what classroom they are going to be in, so they will ask the Help Desk staff. Until things changed, we had no choice but to point to a grubby photocopy of a...
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A Portrait of Slumber
This is pretty much the way I sleep. Sort of. I don’t stuff my face into the pillow quite so much, but it’s comfy. I always sleep on my stomach; have done since I was a small boy. It helps keep monsters away. I just feel too vulnerable on my back.
I did this drawing to study the way pillowy fabric surfaces bend and wrinkle when a weight is applied to them. Specifically, I was trying...
February 2011
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