Giblote

Carl

2011-11-29T00:47:00.002-05:00

I had the opportunity to create a little painting for a Japanese publication doing a special on Pixar a few months back. The magazine was recently published, so here's the painting.

Buffalo

2011-11-16T18:35:00.003-05:00

Elephant

2011-11-14T17:20:00.001-05:00

Anne

2011-10-18T20:45:00.000-04:00

A little coloring experiment with gouache and colored pencils...

Home of love

2011-10-04T23:55:00.003-04:00

A little house-warming gift I painted for my friends Becki and Deanna.

Readin' on the sofa

2011-09-19T21:08:00.001-04:00

Preparing for the dance

2011-09-01T16:05:00.000-04:00

Street fashion

2011-08-18T11:41:00.001-04:00

I saw this guy on the street the other day, he looked pretty good in his L2-B jacket.

New blog banner!

2011-06-26T16:28:00.003-04:00

So what the heck does Giblote (the name of this blog) mean anyways? The real spelling is "gibelotte", and it's the name of a fish soup from the town of Sorel in Quebec. When I was a kid, every time we'd ask my dad what was for supper, he'd answer "Giblote!", which as far as we knew was the name of some unknown and totally gross-sounding foreign dish. I finally decided to look it up and render it for my blog banner. The fish used in the dish is called a "barbotte", fyi.

baseball doodles

2011-05-12T13:05:00.000-04:00

Hungarian folk dancer

2011-04-25T23:39:00.000-04:00

Happy Easter

2011-04-24T23:08:00.003-04:00

A little gouache present for a friend's baby's first birthday. Scanner didn't work so photo had to do.

Old ladies in China Town

2011-04-18T12:06:00.000-04:00

Some doodles

2011-04-11T23:11:00.003-04:00

Doodle...

2011-03-11T02:58:00.000-05:00

The Towers

2009-12-18T02:51:00.003-05:00

What's this, an update!? Better believe it, baby. Nothing fancy here, just a little family caricature I did for my friend Becki.

My Film!

2008-06-23T14:37:00.001-04:00

Well I finally decided to put it online, it's pretty much as finished as it's gonna get for the time being. Enjoy!

Friends at Emma's cottage

2008-05-22T19:25:00.003-04:00

Spent an awesome week-end at Emma's cottage, got to hang out with good friends, and got to meet some new ones as well! Here they are, save for Ryan and Kyle who managed to evade my scrutinous pencil. I hadn't sketched people in a while, it's really, really fun! :D

School's out forever

2008-04-29T20:55:00.003-04:00

Well, it's over! Here are some shots from my film, it's almost done now but there's still a good amount of clean-up and coloring to do on some of the animation (about 35 seconds worth, out of 2:12min). It's been a crazy end of year, went by in a blur. I'm excited to see what the future holds :)

Film poster!

2008-03-06T00:09:00.003-05:00

I didn't want to divulge too much about my film's plot on my blog too soon, but I guess we're close enough to the end of the semester to allow for some leakage. Probably most people who view this blog know what my film's about anyways, for the others, you'll have to wonder!

A quick dash of kitsch :D

2008-02-18T23:14:00.003-05:00

I was listening to some happy love songs tonight and that's what came out. Recently I was reading a book that denounced kitsch as being illusory (well, it kind of is by definition, but anyways), and well, what can I say, I still believe in it. It's not because shitty stuff exists that happy corny stuff is fake! Anyhoo, I kinda like this sketch, maybe I'll finish it if I have time.

Oldish Winter Fair stuff

2008-02-09T12:33:00.001-05:00

Those were drawn at the Ontario Royal Winter Fair this November, I never got around to post them, until now! In other news I'm still working away on my film, I have about 75% of the rough animation done so far, I'm excited about how it's looking so far :). Cheers!

A late Christmas!

2008-01-17T21:00:00.002-05:00

Here's a Christmas gift I drew for my friend Abbey, it's her with her film's characters, freakishly cute! Colored pencils are fun.

Corteo

2008-01-03T14:53:00.001-05:00

I saw this awesome Cirque du Soleil show on TV the other day, these were done while watching it. I really really love the art direction of this show, it's like a mix of baroque art and old Italian circus and gypsy culture, insane!

First scene!

2007-12-31T02:08:00.001-05:00

Well, here it is, the first scene of my film... completed!... for now, at least. All my layouts are done, the color keys are done, so now I'm just painting away and trying to make those BGs look pretty, while being well suited to showcase the animation. This scene has no animation though, so it just has to look nice and set the mood, hopefully. I still have about 22 of these to go, hopefully I can get them done this week and then I'll have all of next semester to concentrate on animation only, yipee!!! :D

Russian clowns

2007-12-28T11:51:00.000-05:00

I was watching a circus show on TV yesterday and those awesome clowns called Lizedei had a pretty funny number, it inspired me to draw this. Enjoy!

Some lifedrawing!

2007-11-24T13:39:00.000-05:00

These are all 20 minute poses. We're so fortunate at Sheridan to have such amazing models and model coordinators, gotta make the most of it while I'm still here. In other news the film is going well, I'm about halfway through my rough layouts and I started a bit of animation here and there... It's so much fun!!! :D Later!

Character color studies

2007-11-03T19:16:00.001-04:00

I took out my gouache set today and played around a bit, it was fun! I was trying to do that nice flat lineless style you see a lot in Disney and Pixar concept art. I don't think I really got it, but I kinda like the result anyway. Hope you enjoy!

Lifedrawing

2007-10-24T17:15:00.000-04:00

Some stuff from my mid-term portfolio, 10-20 minutes. Hope you like!

The Nightingale

2007-10-15T13:20:00.000-04:00

This was an assignement for my elective class "Illustrations of the Romantic Period". The first image is based on John Clare's The Nightingale's Nest and the second on Samuel Coleridge's The Nightingale. I really love using watercolors, it had been a while since I'd done it. If anyone's wondering, btw, watercolor is ALL ABOUT what paper you use. I used a cheap paper to do some tests for this and that totally sucked, but those here were done on Arches Coldpressed paper, which was total bliss. Later!

Storyboards!

2007-09-26T21:02:00.000-04:00

Some clean boards for my film, I got a bit carried away with the amount of detail, but I figure it'll come in handy when I'm doing layouts. And I just happen to like drawing details too. I should be done with this 2nd pass on the boards by the week-end, then I'll spend 2-3 weeks trying to get the hell critiqued out of it and revising whatever should be revised, and then hopefully it's on to production!

Some concept animation thumbnails

2007-09-15T11:02:00.001-04:00

Not much to update with this week, I've been mainly concentrating on my storyboards and leicca reel (with some lifedrawing here and there) these days. But here are some super rough poses for 2 scenes in the film. Enjoy!

Christine, Jeff, livingroom study and horsies

2007-09-08T22:19:00.001-04:00

Wooh! I've been back in shcool for a week and it's going great! I'm almost done with my first pass on my storyboards for my film, and I'm starting to get my character designs a bit more fleshed out. Also on the side I've been trying to draw horses from memory, it's fun! They still look a bit off here and there but I'm getting there, I think.

A nice car ride

2007-09-03T19:16:00.000-04:00

This pic was inspired by the same song that inspired me about exactly one year ago, "Deux par deux rassemblés" by Pierre Lapointe (you can see the previous pic in the August 2006 archives). It's my first time designing a car, it's pretty fun!

Film concept!

2007-08-31T13:50:00.001-04:00

So 4th year's right about to start for me at Sheridan, which means it's FILM-MAKING TIME!!! Here's a first color concept for the style of my own thing, it's a start!

Lifedraw and caricatures

2007-08-27T13:43:00.001-04:00

Some sketches from this summer, the caricatures are of various coworkers at Copernicus Studios. Enjoy!

Carriage... guy

2007-07-31T12:03:00.000-04:00

Well that makes at least one update for the month of July. Just a quick doodle in photoshop, enjoy!

Garden Flower

2007-06-25T12:37:00.000-04:00

Woah so it's been a while since my last update. Anyway, I had some time to draw last week-end and I felt like using my markers, here's the result. I think her neck is too long and her face doen'st totally fit the whole thing, but eh, it's something for fun. Later!

Otokonoko

2007-05-28T10:43:00.001-04:00

Hello world! Sorry for the lack of updates blablabla... Anyway, I've been in Halifax for 3 weeks now, interning at Copernicus Studio, and it's been pretty sweet so far. The workload in my department has been kinda light recently though, so I'm taking a bit of time to train on my own or to just draw my own stuff. So yeah, I'll try to post some interesting stuff shortly, meanwhile delight in my excellent Windows Paint creation. I've been taking Japanese classes during the evenings and week-end, I guess I was inspired by that!

Group film!

2007-04-20T23:49:00.000-04:00

So the school year has come to an end and REDRUM, my wonderful group, succesfully finished The Monster Drawing (the short animated film!). An online version will be posted within the next week, so be sure to keep checking our blog for it to pop up. Go check it out now too and marvel at our trailer poster!

lifedrawing

2007-04-03T19:20:00.000-04:00

Just some lifedrawings for my final portfolio.

Some birds after work.

2007-03-15T20:26:00.000-04:00

They just looked kinda plain without ties, so there you have it, office birds! :D

I bought a guitar! And stuff.

2007-03-04T22:52:00.000-05:00

I bought a guitar this week-end! It's an acoustic and is nothing like that drawing here, but hey, guitars are cool!

A character for a potential story I'm developping for my 4th year film. He has a secret life!

This last one is dedicated to Sarah who had to sit through a very annoying conversation recently.

Demo Reel

2007-02-24T13:32:00.000-05:00

Here it is, my demo reel! You tube made it a bit slower than it really is, but it still works alright. Enjoy!

Taxi

2007-02-20T00:51:00.000-05:00

There are a lot of problems with this drawing but eh, it's a doodle. Aah, it's past my bedtime again, gotta get up early tommorow to work on the group film. Anyway, uh, I'm checking out now, peace.

On a roll!

2007-02-19T00:10:00.000-05:00

Woooh two posts in one night, I'm on fire. I wanted to try getting more intense colors without resorting to any photoshop tricks, there it is. I should go to bed now.

Guitaring

2007-02-18T23:36:00.000-05:00

Just felt like doodling and trying out some color stuff in photoshop. I wanna buy a guitar.

Woodsmen

2007-01-04T15:20:00.000-05:00

French Canadian woodsmen! I think I might use the middle one for the big character assignment in our 3D class this semester, we'll see if he makes the cut.

The G

2006-12-02T13:59:00.000-05:00

My pal Mario and I had a rather unusual caricature battle where the assailant, instead of humiliating the victim with caricatures, plagued them with self-caricatures pasted over the victim's desk area... good job if you were able to make sense of that, where the logic in that resides, I don't know. Anyway, the point is, here's a self-caricature of yours truly, enjoy!

Ballet

2006-11-30T12:43:00.000-05:00

This is a layout/animation/compositing assignement. I'm currently working on the animation, but here's a shot of what the finished thing should look like. Dancers are fun to animate!

An update of sorts

2006-11-25T22:19:00.000-05:00

Well I felt like updating my blog tonight, but didn't really have anything to scan (it's all at my desk at school, yeah...) , so I decided to just fool around for a couple minutes in photoshop and post whatever came out. Here it is, call it Simplistic Naive Charm if you will.

Mario

2006-10-16T00:26:00.000-04:00

Here's a caricature of my good friend Mario, I was trying to get back at him for all the unflattering renditions of me that he's done over our years here at Sheridan. After some consideration, I think I still have a long way to go before I reach his level of grotesqueness in my own caricatures. Ahh Mario, you're an inspiration.

Francine

2006-09-30T17:24:00.000-04:00

Yohoho! Group film projects are now well underway here at Sheridan, and I must say my team kicks ass! We're getting pretty close to reaching a final story script and direction, and a project blog should be set up shortly. In the mean time, here are some story sketches I did last week as part of uh, pre-pre-production? We decided yesterday to go with a pretty different direction (not everyone likes bright bubbly stuff the way I do, hahaha), so I'm posting them up here. Sorry Francine, that's as far as your existence is going. It was good while it lasted.

Stay tuned for more stuff!

Cafe drawings and doodles

2006-09-25T19:34:00.000-04:00

Hey! It's been a while since my last update, I've mostly been doodling random "unworthy of my blog" stuff lately (that's all quite relative), so uh, that's an excuse right there! I finally ended up deciding that posting doodles was probably better than posting nothing at all, so there ya go, doodles!

Some sharpy caricatures done at the local mall, I slapped on some colors in photoshop while I was at it.

Random characters (and a pair of misconstructed legs?) doodled in my litterature class this morning. It's a good enough class, plus the teacher gives us a lot of time for in class exercises, so that's fun!

That girl is apparently faking surprise.

I don't know what my big problem is, come to think of it I've been posting "doodles" since the very start of this blog. Ahh the absurd complexities of my mind. Anyway, stay happy, until next time!

My website is revamped!

2006-09-13T18:17:00.000-04:00

Hello all! I just revamped and majorly updated my website, go check it out! It's at http://rydia.net/clairvoyance . Enjoy!

Pierre Lapointe

2006-08-26T19:50:00.000-04:00

It's been a while since I last made a more finished, polished drawing, it feels good! I heard some new music upon coming back to Montreal, some of which was terrific! There's this young signer-song writer-composer over here who's pretty popular these days called Pierre Lapointe, he's great! One of his newer songs, called "Deux par deux rassemblés" (Two by Two Brought Together) really gave me a kick, I loved it the first time I heard it. And then I saw the music video, it was INSANE. So crazy and fun and unexpected, and the style of it really resonated with me.

Anyway, this really inspired me, so here's the result!

If you wanna see the video it's at http://www.audiogram.com/nouvelles/20060621/ . Enjoy!

Various stuff

2006-08-19T21:10:00.000-04:00

Hello hello! I'm back home safe in Montreal, now there are only 3 weeks left 'till the beginning of school. What a summer! I had a blast in San Jose at Gaia, the San Fransisco Bay area is definately a cool place to live in... at least judging from the 2 months I spent there. Anyway, here are some sketches!

Some portrait of a made up 80's rocker type chick. I was kinda thinking about Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jet there, although what I came up with kinda lacks the attitude. I still like it alright.

Some sketches for a short scenario I'm developping, it's nothing epic but I'm having fun with it.

Drawing people at the San Fransisco Airport.

And finally a fashionable chick taking a stroll. Listening to KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" song makes me think of pretty girls happily strutting down the city streets, it's a good song!

Little Miss Sunshine

2006-08-13T19:53:00.000-04:00

Woah, I don't usually advertise stuff on this blog, but here's something worth mentionning: Little Miss Sunshine. I went to see it with some friends yesterday in Emeryville, and I gotta say I haven't enjoyed a movie that much in a long time. The story and characters are just so amazingly well written and developped, the cast is amazing, the movie just sucks you in from the very first minute. The whole thing is so well paced with a good balance of comedy and drama, every main character (or almost) have their own story/subplot that ties in perfectly with the main plot. It's just such a satisfying, moving movie. I'll leave it to that, now go see it!

Face doodles

2006-08-11T22:10:00.000-04:00

Just a quick update before I get back to Montreal, enjoy!

Dragons!

2006-08-01T19:12:00.000-04:00

Those were really fun to draw! :D

Monsters!

2006-07-20T20:29:00.000-04:00

I've been doing concept art for a game at work lately, drawing monsters, characters and environments. It rocks!!! The team is great and the project pretty fun, good times. Here are some monsters, it's all development stuff so... I'm guessing it's ok to post 'em up here. Besides, the number of visitors this blog gets is probably below the 2 digits, so yeah, no big deal. Enjoy!

Some Lifedrawing

2006-07-15T13:11:00.000-04:00

I thought I should post some of my lifedrawings, those are from my 2nd year final portfolio. In order, a 5 min, 10 min, 2 min and 10 min. Enjoy!

Coloring discoveries

2006-07-14T16:03:00.000-04:00

Ok so this won't look like a big deal or anything, but boy oh boy I've just found a way to color animation drawings in photoshop which is like, too easy to be true. It took me like, a minute to color the drawing below, from it's unaltered scanned state. And if I make actions for the process, it could take like, 30 seconds. Given, it's a pretty simple coloring "style" (if you can call it a style), but it's just what's needed for animation. I also think I've figured out how to shade animation in flash, but that's fancies. But yeah, that means coloring the animation for my film next year will be a breeze... after cleaning it up nicely, that is, which will probably be more of a time consuming process. Well, at least that's one thing I don't have to worry about.

Poor guy... I kinda robbed him of his dignity.

Giants and doodles

2006-07-14T10:32:00.000-04:00

Ok! Here are the very first concept sketches for a short film idea I'm currently developping. It's about an insomniac Giant who got a little stupid on a sleepless night, and now he's gotta fix his mess. The whole screenplay is pretty much all fleshed out on the first draft level by now, but I won't reveal too much of it yet. But oh, it'll be fun, it's got all the works and stuff: drama, action, sci-fi, comedy, religious taboo (all in good doses of course). Well, I'll stop hyping it up now because that's always a double-edged sword, enjoy!Notice how the background is just totally slapped on on this one. But it gives information!

That last page of doodles isn't concept art, of course. I just thought it was a fun page :D

Woooh color!

2006-07-09T23:34:00.000-04:00

I'm thinking I should do drawings with some actual context and/or story behind them instead of just random characters all the time, because yeah characters are fun, but I'm realizing I'm missing out on a lot of other fun by not delving into that. It's just a bit daunting since I'm not that familiar with that kind of stuff. But anyway, enough talk, here's a starter, it's simple but I kinda like it. Markers and colored pencils.

That last one was done with a really, really dried out brush marker, but wow those things are awesome for doing subtle shading. Fun stuff.

Some sketches

2006-07-07T21:03:00.000-04:00

That guy in the second pic is dedicated to the angry person inside all of us. Well, at least inside me. He doesn't take too much place but he deserves some attention every once in a while, so there.

Centaurs and other weirdos

2006-07-01T16:46:00.000-04:00

Yay for markers! I was looking at Stephen Silver's artbook , which I think influenced the look of that centaur dude. He's such an awesome artist! Those horse bodies here were totally bullshited, I need to brush up on anatomy... but somehow they still look kinda plausible to me, hmm. Let me know if I'm wrong.

Russian adventures!

2006-06-30T17:26:00.000-04:00

Or something like that. Been listening to Russian folk music and it gave me ideas, nothing too elaborate (or even remotely Russian related actually...) but fun! Hey!

Some of the aforementioned anime-art

2006-06-29T00:51:00.000-04:00

That second one isn't really anime-style per say... depending on your point of view I guess. It's used as a new header image on a website I work for. The website has a strong anime-oriented userbase, and boy they really didn't respond well to the image on the site's forums! "Weird happy beach bums" "pseudo anime style" "Disney style" are among the terms that were used, in a negative sense. Frankly I don't really care about all that, I'm fairly glad with how the pic came out, but as a professional work it got me thinking "maybe I didn't evaluate my audience adequatly". Anyway, it got OK'ed from my superiors, so I guess it fit what they wanted.

Btw, the awesome inking on that one was done by my friend and coworker Kidkoum/Saka in Painter 7, he's frikkin awesome, go check him out!

It's been a while!

2006-06-29T00:25:00.000-04:00

So yeah, I'm back from California, the trip was great! Here's some sketches from the past weeks :D

That last one has major drawing issues, watch how I try to hide this by adding artsy coloring! :D

When I was in California for the past 3 weeks (well, I've been back for a week now), I was hanging out a lot with some friends who are truly amazing artists, Jeannie and Kid. They're among the artists I used to idolize when I first started out as a manga/anime fanartist online, back in the days. Anyway, this kind of got me back into drawing anime style, because it's so pretty and stuff, but then it got me wondering, what style do I want to draw in? I've been trying to draw more "European style" (whatever that might be) for a while, but now I get back to Anime and it's all delicate and sexy, and I really enjoy it, but it's really lacking the dynamic and fun qualities that the other style has. So yeah, here I am being a classic young artist going "Waaaaaah, what's my style, where do I fit in, insecurity, existancial questions, Waaaaah" and then I think "shut up existancial artist, who cares what 'style' you draw in, stop thinking about that crap and just draw, for Pete's sake". And I go "ok"

And now my Brain goes "Ooh look at you, you're writing all weird on your blog, ladida mister artist" and then I go "No, I'm just writing stuff for fun, I'm trying to be looser in my thinking and expression", and then Brain goes "Nan Han, you just wanna look all free-spirited and artsy" and I'm like "Gosh, aren't we over-analyzing here just a bit?" and then Brain goes "Hmm, maybe we are". I worry a lot about what people might think of me, weither it's about my art, my writing, or just my plain being, and it's really dumb.

If you can make sense of this above, good job! I just felt like letting some thoughts out, I guess this is part of what blogs are for.

Caricatures and lifedrawing

2006-05-25T22:37:00.000-04:00

I'm leaving for California and will only come back in 2 weeks, so I thought I'd post some stuff before I leave. I've been delving into caricature a bit more lately, those weirdos up there are some friends from Montreal, I hope they don't find this out! The last one is a 10 minute pose I drew yesterday at a session in downtown Montreal, I'm a bit rusty but it's still good fun. Later!

Messing around

2006-05-19T12:31:00.000-04:00

I feel like I'm in college fine arts again. Messed around with acrylics on canvas, I think the whole thing lacks direction like nobody's business, but eh, I had fun. Oh and I blame Sarah entirely for this work of art, posting fetus images and sending subliminal messages on her blog.

Some characters!

2006-05-16T20:11:00.000-04:00

I've been trying some new stuff in terms of line and style... I still think I need to push my designs a good couple notches and go into extremes. Anyway, more to come~

2006-05-12T11:03:00.000-04:00

Why does Granny need a melon bowler?

Why, to perform the secret melon dance!

Yeah... I hope it wasn't too predicatble, after doing the first skecth I figured I had to find a reason why poor old Granny was so lumpy in the hip area.

Comments and critique welcomed as always.

Fat Suburbian and Green Hair

2006-05-11T14:29:00.000-04:00

Markers + Prismacolor pencils = YAY! I had forgotten just how amazing and smooth prismacolor colored pencils were, I'm in love.

Getting back in the swing~

2006-05-11T14:25:00.000-04:00

Alright, summer's here and my internship in California's been delayed a couple weeks (long story), so I'm sitting at home in Montreal being bored. Solution: draw and update blog! :D

Here's some brushpen and nibpen doodles I did at Marcy's, thanks to Jordan for rekindling my interest with the medium. More stuff to come!

Fun with Colors!

2006-03-22T18:45:00.000-05:00

So, after giving some photoshop lessons to Sarah and her really inspired double chin, I was really pumped to try some new stuff in photoshop! I really tried to push the contrasts and colors here without resorting to the level adjustment, and I kinda like how it turned out!

First entry yay.

2006-03-15T10:47:00.000-05:00

Testing testing testing, test like there's no tommorow!