Hal Yorke (Damien Molony) from Being Human Cartoon/Drawing

I've been reading ImagineFX (which is an excellent British sci-fi/fantasy illustration magazine) a lot lately rather than actually drawing. Now that I'm on a short break between semesters, I thought I'd experiment with some of the tips from the magazine and try out the textured brush sets I downloaded from it. I decided to drawn this photo of Lord Henry Yorke (aka Hal, as played by Damien Molony) from the excellent show Being Human, since it had a bit of a fantasy vibe to it. (I think this is my third time drawing a character from Being Human, ha). I've also been reading Dinotopia creator James Gurney's fantasy art books lately and toyed with the idea of drawing a dinosaur in the left corner in tribute, but ultimately rejected the idea. Maybe I'll do that for my next experiment (Jessie J and a Brontosaurus?). Picture by Huw John for the BBC. Found on SFX. 

Sam Worthington Cartoon

It's amazing the amount of setbacks you can have during the time of one drawing. I started this back in the first week of January, with the goal of being done on Australia day (January 26). Now after a very long break, it's mid March and my Wacom has stopped working, so I had to finish it with my optical mouse (quelle horreur). Oh well. 

This cartoon is of the Australian actor Sam Worthington. You may know him from such films as Avatar, Terminator Salvation, Clash of the Titans, and The Debt. Original photo by the wonderful Norman Jean Roy for Details (scanned from the magazine). 

Lara Stone Drawing

Lara Stone is one of my favourite models and twitterers (follow her @larastone). She is married to the hilarious comedian David Walliams (check out his book Camp David - it's great!) and they are expecting her first child next year -- Congrats!  

For the picture I decided to add the Orchid headband, since they were my late Grandfather's favourite flower. Picture of Lara from Vogue Brasil by Mario Testino found here. 

Blake Lively Drawing

Blake Lively is a talented and funny American actress who recently married Canada's sweetheart Ryan Reynolds (the two starred together in the Green Lantern). Plus she's best friends with Kerfuffle favourites Florence Welch and Martha Stewart! According to Martha, Blake is a "groovy cook," "makes fabulous things," and throws "ice cream soda parties." Awesome! Picture scanned by me from the July 2012 issue of Marie Claire magazine.

As for the drawing, I wanted to experiment a little. I think Blake looks like Jerry Hall (they have the same hair!), so I decided to play around with the colouring to make it resemble the polaroids Andy Warhol used to take of Jerry using his Polaroid Big Shot camera in the '80s. I also changed the dress to look like the Zuhair Murad one she wore at the Savages premiere. 

Adam van Koeverden Cartoon

Adam van Koeverden is an amazing Canadian sprint kayaker and has won eight world championship medals and four Olympic medals. He's also a very funny and talented writer (read his blog here) and has been an Athlete Ambassador for Right to Play since 2006 (in November, he will climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with the goal of raising $100,000 for the humanitarian organization - wowza!). The original photo was scanned from Cottage Life (which is a gorgeous magazine by the way) and was taken by Daniel Ehrenworth.

A note about the cartoon: I just finished an excellent course on illustrated materials for libraries (arguably the best course I have taken during my Masters thus far) and was inspired to try to something a little more experimental than my usually minimalist style for the background. I used a mixture of the watercolor small round tip brush, charcoal large smear tip brush and the mixer brush tool to create the look. Click on the image for a much larger size to see the details.

Grace Potter Cartoon

For me, the top two albums of the summer have been Hot Chip's In Our Heads and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals's The Lion The Beast The Beat (both were released in early June). This is a drawing of the latter's lead singer, Grace Potter. Grace has an absolutely amazing voice and even has her own signature Gibson Flying V guitar, cementing her awesomeness. I highly suggest you check out some of her band's kick ass songs: http://www.gracepotter.com/video.     

Original picture from Grace Potter's Flickr.

Fan Bingbing Cartoon

Fan Bingbing is an award winning Chinese actress and model. She's also one of the most stylish and beautiful people on the planet -- She's a real chameleon and can pull off any look from 1980s New Wave queen to 1920s Greta Garbo style femme fatale to one of the Four Great Beauties of Ancient China (she's played Yang Guifei twice). For this drawing, I decided try out the Coles Phillips's Fade-Away Lady technique again (where the dress fades-away into the background) that I used for my Kimbra cartoon. Hope you like it!

Photo from:  http://forums.thefashionspot.com/.

Hart of Dixie Cartoon (Rachel Bilson, Jaime King, Wilson Bethel, Cress Williams, and Scott Porter)

I was looking for a new show to watch to replace House M.D.'s Monday night time slot and my friends, Megan and Rebecca, both recommended Hart of Dixie to me. I'm about half way through the first season (no spoilers y'all) and I really enjoy it so far! It reminds me of the Gilmore Girls (which I really enjoyed back in the day) and the scenes with Zoe, Levon and Wade are pretty funny. Season two starts on October 2 on the CW.

Left to Right: Scott Porter as George Tucker, Jaime King as Lemon Breeland, Rachel Bilson as Dr. Zoe Hart, Wilson Bethel as Wade Kinsella, and Cress Williams as Lavon Hayes. Click on the cartoon for a larger size.

Photo of cast from the Rachel Bilson fan website: http://rachelbilson.us/

Charlize Theron Drawing

Charlize Theron is one of the most talented, beautiful, and kick ass actresses out there by far. She has the grace and charm of Grace Kelly, but could also probably defeat the Rock in a cage match (have you seen her in Aeon Flux?). Charlize has two movies out this summer: Snow White and the Huntsman and Prometheus (if you have seen the latter, please let me know if Michael Fassbender's robot, David 8, is like Michael 6 from the Peter Serafinowicz Show?). Enjoy the drawing and, as a bonus, I've also included the "Crossfire" by Brandon Flowers music video where Charlize fights ninjas -- Man, she's cool! 

Photo scanned by me from the May Issue of British Vogue (one of my favourite and most expensive magazines to buy!)

Dita Von Teese Comic

Dita Von Teese is a is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress. She also has the world's coolest house -- seriously it's beautiful! Michaela and Sammie both agreed I should draw her, so here you go. I was going for a John Singer Sargent meets Mario Ruben Cooper meets Adrian Tomine vibe. The walls were inspired by the Hotel d'Evreux in Paris. Original photo of Dita from Tumblr. 

Miranda Kerr Drawing

Miranda Kerr is an Australian supermodel, mother, founder of KORA Organics Skincare, and overall cool person (she's also married to English actor Orlando Bloom). I decided to draw Miranda since I really liked this cover of Numéro Tokyo and I thought her trademark dimples would be fun to try to draw. The original photo is by Nino Muñoz and can be found at Fashion Gone Rogue.

Site News: New Header and Summer Colours

Hey everyone,

I decided to update the header and look of the blog, since I think I last did it in 2009 or early 2010. I decided to change the rain look and go for a summer time vibe. I was inspired by the Submarine and A Hard Day's Night movie posters.  

I also added a few blogs to my blogroll at the side. Let me know if you have any trouble viewing the site. 

Thanks,

Jamie  

Kimbra Cartoon

I've been saying for well over a year on my music tumblr that New Zealand singer/songwriter Kimbra is destined for musical world domination. I think my prediction is coming true -- Her song with Gotye, "Somebody That I Used to Know," just reached #1 in the US! Her debut album Vows, which was one of my favourite records of last year, is finally being released in Canada and the States on May 22nd (I'll be spending my birthday money on that as it comes with some new tracks, yay!). Anyway check out the "Cameo Lover" (which this cartoon was inspired by) and "Warrior" videos below. Picture from here.

As a small note on the cartoon, I was trying out Coles Phillips's Fade-Away Lady technique, where the dress blends into the background. I think it turned out pretty rad!

Being Human Cartoon - Annie Sawyer (Lenora Crichlow), Tom McNair (Michael Socha), Hal Yorke (Damien Molony), and Alex Mayhew (Kate Bracken)

I'm a big fan of the show BBC Three show Being Human, as is my friend, Sammie, and my sister. I'm really sad this season is over, so I decided to draw a cartoon of the cast. I previously drew the original cast of Annie, Mitchell, and George (see it here), but thought it would be fun to draw the new additions: Tom, Hal, and Alex. I'm really happy with how it turned out. If you like actually evil vampires, tough werewolves, or powerful ghosts, Being Human is the show for you! (It's also really funny!)

Left to right: Annie Sawyer (as played by Lenora Crichlow), Tom McNair (as played by Michael Socha), Hal Yorke (as played by Damien Molony), and Alex Mayhew (as played by Kate Bracken).

Original pictures from Addicted to Media and Spoiler TV. Photos by Photographer: Huw John for the BBC.

The Hunger Games Cartoon (Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne)

The Hunger Games trilogy are the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time and I'm sad I finished them last week (a huge shout out to my friend Jill for finally getting me to read them). The books are very harrowing and the characters are fantastic -- I think my classmates (who are also hooked) will agree with me that the character Peeta is the new Mr. Darcy, ha. The trilogy reminds me a lot of P.D. James' the Children of Men meets Big Brother (both the Orwell novel and trashy TV show). I highly recommend you check them out. 

Next week the highly anticipated Hunger Games movie comes out, which stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. I couldn't resist drawing it. Pictures from http://www.hungergamesmovieseries.com.

Left to right: Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, and Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss.