life drawing

below are drawings from a session at ocad quite some time ago. i think this was the first time i had gone in a while. life drawing is such a love / hate thing for me. i've been going more regularly as of late and i feel like my drawings are getting tenser and tenser. the drawings are definitely messier and i dare say less organised. i think i'm trying too hard but i still love the challenge of the setting and the various ways one can challenge oneself to draw differently. i'm not sure how much it shows but during these sessions i am trying to draw a little outside of my comfort zone.

1 min poses

5 & 10 min

20 min

souvenir

so on this day in a park in montreal, after walking nearly all day, i had some great company while basking in the sun. the owner of this bike had a stash of wine on ice that he kept going back to. in the middle of the afternoon. ducks were being chased in the pond by dogs. one guy decided to lie at the edge of the water where he was eventually run over by a dog. drawing this left me with one arm that was more tanned than the other. and after we left? well, we went to have three orders of poutine at la banquise. a picture might've done the job but i would only have had one, maybe two of these memories. this has been another edition of deep thoughts, by jack handy.

it's blitz!

i guess maps was the song that first made me pay attention to the yeah yeah yeahs. i think their latest album is one of the few i wasn't disappointed by this year. it sounds a little more produced than i expected but it works for me. i like the balance of synth they put in; some bands have tried hard to do this and it's just been baaaaaaad. yes i'm talking about you, coldplay. i'd say my favourite track is zero. brian chase, karen o, and nick zinner (not in that order) in moleskine.

studying hedi

i'm actually busy with projects if you can believe that so posting frequency is getting even lower. not much to say about this one. photo by hedi slimane, in moleskine