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Old Stuff

This is some stuff from early this year, it's all based on the theme of communication and ideas... the way what we say and think about the world are often different, and how that is almost always...

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Visual Dialogue

These were all done for my Visual Dialogue class. It was all about attempting to push visual communication as far as we could, in addition to dealing with some "controversial" content, pushing the...

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Article 20

So it's been five months since I graduated and I haven't been able to get much of anything done. I've done a lot of drawing/sketching, and a whole lot of thinking, but not much in the work...

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Article 19

This piece is for a group show with a bunch of my fellow Sheridan Illustration grads. The idea was to create a deck of cards each designed by a different illustrator, with no limits or guidelines as to...

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Article 18

Here are some other pieces from school that I'm pretty happy with, they were done for my narrative class with Blair Drawson (an excellent professor and a truly amazing illustrator). The assignment was...

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Experimentation

I've expressed frustration and disappointment with my work in previous posts, particularly with my process. I was unsatisfied both with the results I was getting as well as with the work itself; I...

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New Work

Here's a little process shot of my next two pieces... these are final, full size drawings that I am going to now trace out my shapes from, completely paste over with newspaper, gesso and matte medium,...

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Article 15

So it's been a while. But I'm back with some (mostly) finished work that I'm pretty jazzed about. These are the finished peices of the sketches I posted months and months ago... they're all cut out...

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Article 14

Been busy; working a lot, attempting to draw and paint as much as possible, and taking a yoga teacher training course that has been extremely interesting. Feel like I've finally found a working process...

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Scientist Sketches

Steven WeinbergBrian GreenePaul Davies Reza Aslan Sam HarrisWalter Sinott-ArmstrongRoger BinghamSo recently my buddy introduced me to this great site called The Science Network. Tons of talks and...

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Connectomes

Oh yeah and here is the finished version of a piece I posted a while ago... mostly had it on the first go, but just wasn't satisfied so I went back in, redesigned the digital element and did a little...

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Quantum Compass

So apparently new research indicates that a quantum effect known as entaglement is responsible for birds' (and possibly other animals) ability to sense and navigate with earths magnetic feild - the...

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White Nose Syndrome

Apparently in caves across North America, bats are being killed off en mass by a poorly understood sickness called white nose syndrome. It was first detected 2006, and has gone on to kill over a...

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Moth Eyes

Just finished this guy last night, decided to post the original scan, before I go in and do some digital stuff - it's part of a series I'm doing on Biomimetics. This ones about moths and thier eyes...

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Lotus Leaves

Another one on biomimetics, this time about the lotus flower and the ability of its leaves to repel all sorts of materials, specifically allowing water to bead rather than absorb on its surface; and as...

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White Nose Revised

Something always didn't really sit right with me about the original version of this - it was a little too passive, didn't really express the idea of the danger and destruction this disease is causing....

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Elephant Graveyard

It's been a little while since I've updated, so I figured I'd toss something up - finished this one a while ago - it's about some of the dangers facing the Indian Elephant, namely deforestation and of...

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More Sketches

Cant stop watching the Science Network and TED talks... so I use sketching as an excuse. Here's a couple. The first two are from a video on the Science Network called "Robots and the Illusion of free...

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van der Walls Gecko

Just finished this one - the toes of Geckos have millions of these tiny spatula-tipped hairs called setae which is what allows them to stick to and climb almost any surface with ease. It's all due to...

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Caught in the middle

Been a while since I posted anything so I figured I'd toss something up - this one is actually based on an old drawing I did for school while my brother was in Afghanistan with the Canadian military......

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Connected

Just got back from 3 months studying Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore, India.  Probably the single greatest experience of my life so far.  Here's a tidied up sketch I did while I was over there, just thinking...

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Roots

Just finished this one yesterday, its about our genetic roots as humans, back to the days of apes in the jungle.  Its really part of a series I'm working on, I'll post the results as I finish them.

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Hive Mind

Just finished this one - worked up from a painting I did while in India, it's about the growing network of information and communication that is creating a new form of collective intelligence.  Been...

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