Life drawing at the Metro Toronto Zoo

Once in awhile Leigh and I get the urge to head to the zoo and do some life drawing and look at some animals. Life drawing at the zoo is fun but can be a little tough sometimes. Animals in the zoo are not the most cooperative models to draw from. They're either constantly on the move or asleep or hiding behind something so you can't see them. Here's my favourites from this last session.

Uncle Deadly for @Sketch_Dailies

Just a quick portrait of my favorite muppet.

Sketch Dailies: Medusa

Saw this Sketch Dailies thing on twitter, Figured I'd join in. here's the first one I've had a chance to do. Their topic for March 11 was Medusa. Here's my sketch.

Chainsaw Mummy!

the world needs more mummies, less zombies.

Bib Fortuna says ...

I realised I haven't done enough Star Wars art. Everyone loves Bib Fortuna so I figured I'd draw him.
That's it.

They move around in the dark ...

I don't know what these things are. They just showed up while I was on the subway this morning.

Creepy guys....

Not sure what he wants but I really wish he'd stop following me around.

Hey look! its Dayglow Necros the mortal enemy of Calabrese!

Sketchy Spaceman

Just a guy alone on an unforgiving planet. looking for some action.

There's something in the woods!

 And its weird!

King Hat?!

 

Just drew this weird guy, no real reason behind it. I was listening to the Paul F. Tompkins'  Pod F. Tompkast. While drawing this. The king hat thing is from his "Laboring Under Delusions" DVD. I find him hilarious. I just discovered his comedy last year thanks to Leigh Young introducing me to the Thrilling Adventure Hour. 

This picture has nothing to do with any of that other stuff.

Halloween Fiends: 25, It's not human and it has an axe!

Six more days 'til halloween!

Halloween Fiend: 22

Halloween fiends: 18

Halloween Fiends: 17, beware the moon!

Halloween Fiends: 15

Halloween Fiends: 13

Wolverine's been in a fight ...

Couldn't think of anything to draw today so I asked Bobby Calabrese of Calabrese fame what he thought I should draw. He said "Some creature from the swamp! Or one of th X-Men! Or a space duck!" Since I've drawn swamp creatures before I decided against that. I don't remember ever drawing any of the X-Men (which is weird since that used to be my favorite comic book) I decided to draw Wolverine. Wolverine after a pretty ridiculous fight.
I don't understand why people don't draw Wolverine all messed up more often, guy's got a healing factor, he's the one popular Marvel character who can take an insane amount of damage and still be ok with it. So that's what I drew.
Why'd I ask Bobby Calabrese specifically? I've worked with his band off and on since their first Album so I figured one of those Calabrese boys might have some good ideas. Plus having read his blog and watched the video's he's made,  he seems like an alternate universe version of me who drinks and plays rock music. So who better to steal, I mean, get suggestions of what I should draw.

I also drew a Space Duck.

Blue Hulk

Hey look I did some Superhero fan art. Not something I usually do but I was listening to my music on the way into work today  and thought of this.
Its because of this song.

Frankenstein and a werewolf were walking through the woods ...

Just sketchin' monsters, its what I like to do. Anyway I made this one huge so you can use it as wallpaper for your computer, if its not so scary.
In case you're wondering "what's up with the werewolf's ears?" I've always found the ears on the werewolves in "The Howling" hilarious so I drew hilarious Howling style ears on the werewolf.
I also like how unimpressed Frankenstein (cram it that's his name, the doctor's name was Victor Frankenstein) looks with the werewolf's attempts to be scary.
I hope you enjoy this pic since you'll probably be seeing more monster drawings in the coming days/month/years since, like I've said, I like drawing monsters.

Sketchin' while commutin'

Doodling in my Molskine this morning on the way into work. Drawing monsters first thing in the morning is fun. That top guy you might recognize from the Blind Dead series of films. Saw them for the first time this year and fell in love with the look of the evil knights templar. I saw the second Blind Dead movie first and couldn't believe the series wasn't more popular the undead templar's looked really cool, the movie was creepy and strange in a good way. Then I saw the rest of the series and understood. If you haven't seen them I recommend "Return of the Evil Dead" the second of the Blind Dead movies and then ignore the others they're no where near as good.
I'm not really sure where this other guy came from. I was listening to the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' album "Shadow Out of Tim" at the time so maybe that's the influence.