BATTLE!

Every thursday over the past little while myself and these three fine fellows
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decompress by drawing these massive battles, just like when we were little kids. Drawing without direction or purpose (beyond having fun) is very freeing when you're in a program devoted to doing exactly the opposite of that. There are often other participants, but none of them have flickr accounts yet.

UPDATE!
Richard's got another one of these battles posted up on his photostream!
MOON WAR!

Spot Drawings

Some illustrations for class...









The subjects were, respectively, bear attacks in eastern russia and the woolly mammoth's extinction.

Dead Lands

Playing with some different ways to draw comics. This is brush and digital shading.

Also, my final for the Dragonboat poster.

More Schoolwork!

The final drawing for my previous illustration project, plus some roughs for a coming project.

2009, we hardly knew you....

Ah - the new year.
I think 2010 will be a good one. Here's some roughs for my new illustration class...




And some stuff I've been playing with lately. I've been attempting to tackle the challenge of digital inking - or at least attempting to do so - and a little bit of inkwash doodling to make sure I still got it.

End of Term

Buuuh. After a hard-ass semester, I'm done. Here's a few of my final projects!

More Drawings

For school,



And for fun.


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First Semester Blues

Not much in the way of comics, but here's some stuff I've been doing at school this year - and this is what I've been drawing for fun.

And a goody/oldy from last year - one of my very first drawings using inkwash.

INTERVIEW!

Got a bit up on the Fabler!
Have a peek!

Comix and Stories! British Dinosaurs!

Hey everyone! Two cool things on the horizon!

FIRST! If you're on the west coast of Canada and near Vancouver for the 23rd of August, PLEASE stop by Heritage Hall for "Comix and Stories"! It'll be good, I think - everyone from Kate Beaton to Brandon Graham will be hangin' out there!

SECOND!

Remember that collaboration I've been talking shit about? No?

Well, the fruits of this collaboration (paintings being made by myself and Nemo Ramjet) will be on display at the University of Surrey as part of the British Science Festival! THAT'S RIGHT!

Here's the blurb from the program:

What if dinosaurs hadn't died out but evolved into an intelligent species? Artists C. M. Koseman & Simon Roy imagine how such creatures and their worlds might have looked. This startling and playful exhibition and children’s workshop makes us question our unspoken assumptions underlying previous images of dinosaurs and our own notions of what it means to be human.

Pretty cool, eh? (It'll be open from the beginning of the festival until the tenth of september). So if you're in the UK or in Vancouver at all over the next little while, either come get a book signed or go admire some feathery dinosaurs.

Signing!

Yesterday, I was on CFAX 1070 (an AM radio station in Victoria) with Gareth Gaudin of Legends comics, talking about comics, the comic industry, watchmen, and stuff like that. You should really check out Legends this coming saturday - I'll be doing a signing there. 

C'mon down!

Fun with the bird-men!

These are three dinosauroid illustrations I've just been doing for fun. They might end up being part of a set of pieces, each showing a different stage of technological development. 

They've been a lot of fun so far...