from the coconut

I bought a charcoal pencil, It's a woodless one. It's amazing. I dont have to worry about having charcoal everywhere on my hand and face! This drawing is one of the concepts I am working on for a painting. I will do some more studies. I have commited myself to pick up a pencil and draw at least 15 minutes a day.

Life Drawings June 2006

conceptart.org workshop

I went to the conceptart.org massive black workshop from June 9-12, 2006. Here are some life drawings I did from the workshop.

Jump test animation and breakdown exercise

This is a jump test animation done in Maya. I did the blocking, converted it to spline and flatten some keys on the feet. Not bad but there are still some posing and timing corrections I have to do like the anticipation of the first step or hop (too dry), twist on the body through out the animation, etc.



And my first animation in XSI.

Ahhh Animation!

After working on game animations for over 8 years, I decided to transfer to the cinematics department of Ubisfot Montreal. I started learning XSI to animate. Very similar to Maya for the f curves but I realise that each software have their own strengths and weaknesses. So after learning XSI, I know how to use 4 software packages. 3dsMax, Maya, and MotionBuilder. Although I am far from an expert on each of the programs but I get by ;)

End of portrait class

Today was the end of my first portait class. The class has 6 sessions, 3 from life and 3 from a photo reference. This was a demo I did of the model. I gave the drawing to her.

The end of the 1st Life Drawing Class

I taught my last class of life drawing in May and I think I did a good job. One of the students baked a couple of cakes. Yum yum. :) I will teach another session in fall. I am trying to get a gig going too at work as an Life drawing instrustor.

from my sketchbook

Some sketches from my sketchbook.

basement renovation 3

Finish what I had to for now. The washroom still needs the subfloor, toilet and sink. And also there is the suspended ceiling which will be done much later in the future.

My very first teaching course!!

I finally finish the area of the basement in time for William's birthday. That's if we get crappy weather. Just have the washroom floor to put down and toilet stuff. I will snap some pictures soon.

I started teaching my very first class in life drawing. I have a class of 11. The course runs for 7 weeks and is held in a public library in Mascouche not far away from me. And if all is good I will start teaching a portraiture class in Montreal soon too. Yup, I have been busy recently. :)

Some new works from the last several life drawing sessions.

Life Drawings March 2006

basement renovation 2

After positioning the shower back and forth for I dunno how many times, it finally in place. Let's see what went wrong: Walls were to small, so I had to make it wider. Shower had to be raised, the drain connection sticks out an inch higher. And I forgot to place a support backing for the shower handle! (DoH!) For the rest, 2 more layers of joint compound needs to be applied and then primer paint can be put on. There are 3 doors that needs to be put up too and a closet door. Slowly but surely it will be done. Hopefully before William's Birthday, so we can have it there!

William making noise

This is a video capture of the little munchkin using his flappers;)

Life Drawings Feb 22, 2006

This week's model was a more heavy set woman which is a bit more challenging due to bones and reference markers being hidden.

Basement renovation

I have been working on my basement during my parental leave. Hopefully I can get most of it done before I go back to work. And I hope it will be ready by William's birthday. :)

What was needed:
120 2x4's, 6 2x4x12, 8 2x4x10
16 2x2's
400 3" nails
65 2.5" power nails
120 2.5" wood screws
1 large roll of 6mm vapor barrier
6 large bags of R12 insulation
40 drywalls
2000 drywall screws
260' 14/2 NMD wire
100' 12/2 NMD wire
36' of copper pipe
2 doors
1 shower
1 toilet & sink
1.5 bruised thumb
1 helpful hand from my wife :)

Life Drawings Feb 8, 2006

Hello, Its been a while since I did some life drawing, Just started back about a month ago. I am a bit rusty...These were the best of the bunch.