your greatest enemy

1979 [Clarification: Smashing Pumpkins]

2007-08-22T21:27:00.000-04:00

For those who care,

And so we find summer draws ever closer to it's demise, and I'm feeling more tired than I have ever felt in my life. With my wallet a little thicker, my strings a little more worn out, and my mind a little more sorted I think this summer has been pretty dece; Not because I have accomplished anything special or re-invented myself or anything like that... but because now I understand I don't have to.

<---- P.S. $280 of drawing time while listening to a fat cynical driving instructor well spent>

Goodbye Waves and Driveways

2007-07-12T23:45:00.001-04:00

Staring at that lost post was making me sick, so here's something a little older and little less bleeding eyes and demon skulls?

One day I'll fly away /dread the day when dreaming ends]]

2007-05-02T16:52:00.000-04:00

Dreaming is incredible, it's probably my favourite thing to do.
Please share your crazy dreams if you have any. [Or anything strange and abnormal... ghost stories are acceptable]

Inaudible Melodies >>.

2007-04-12T19:09:00.000-04:00

I don't know what to say, sorry.

The After Life of The Party

2007-04-04T17:44:00.000-04:00

Kingdom Hearts is pure genius by the way...
I will update properly on Friday.

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What is your greatest fear?

Angels With Enemies

2007-03-24T22:46:00.000-04:00

Everyone see the Leaf's amazing victory over Buffalo tonight?

It's like somehow time was bent and we travelled through space and by some mystical twist of fate the Leaf's played from the exact point where they started screwing up in last night's game, except this time ... they did it right.

Edit -----> Ever get the feeling that you're getting yourself into the wrong career? -That you just don't have what it takes to separate yourself from everyone else that wants to do it too?

: /

3x5 ... [times a hundred]

2007-03-21T21:17:00.000-04:00

Somehow in the exciting and action packed life of phil I managed to find some time to scan some stuff. While doing this I realize how much I miss art class, no matter how much work it was... anyway, there's a coloured version of the already posted 'Scary Doll' picture -or whatever you wanna call it- which I dedicate to Ben, in hopes that he'll think about scary dolls at night and run into his room screaming like a little girl if he ever sees this.

-------> Edit: I've discovered that it's easier to shut up when you have headphones in your ears. In a time where I feel like I'm constantly saying things that are useless -this is a good thing.

----> Edit 2: "Being tough isn't about how much punishment you can give, it's about how much you can take."

Ruin

2007-01-04T23:40:00.000-05:00

I think this blog is hereby retired. I have things to do now.

Take it to the Gallow's pole

2006-12-18T23:26:00.000-05:00

this is an excuse for an update.

La la laaaa...

2006-12-10T15:06:00.000-05:00

>_@.

adventures with hockey guys

2006-12-05T23:46:00.000-05:00

<<----- Hey everyone it's Hal Gill! See how he's smiling? -Well he won't be doing much of that after I break his kneecaps for costing the leafs tonight's game : / ...

Aside from hockey players now on my 'kneecaps-to-break' list it was pretty awesome. The seats were freaking amazing, they really were. In fact I think that is about as close as I would want to be, you could see everything perfectly from where I was. Gold seats are just what they're named after...

The experience is completely different when you are actually watching the game in person too. (The players are actually real people by the way, it's not CGI or something dumb like that, it's nuts I know). Not hearing a commentator's voice during the game is surreal, instead you've got about 10,000 crazy fans yelling crap which is wicked. Also you get to see the crazy fans do stupid things to get on camera like lift their shirts and show their fat bellies. lewl.

Basically I know I'm probably never going to see a leafs game again based on the cash you have to shell out for decent seats and also based on the fact that they keep losing hardcore. But it was awesome nonetheless and I think everyone needs to check it out at some point.

And none of you can laugh at me for going to a losing game because my ticket was FREE - IN THE FACE.

Sketch-emo-s

2006-12-01T21:03:00.000-05:00

These ones kinda suck, I don't like 'em. Maybe they're too emo or something, but that's not my fault -- jonathan's contagious. : |

Pocket Sketchbook 2: with a vengence

2006-11-27T17:50:00.000-05:00

"Don't trip over my brain." >_<

2006-11-25T14:22:00.000-05:00

So here's some stuff from my pocket sketchbook. Ehm... yeah.

Something to say about video games

2006-11-20T16:59:00.000-05:00

I had a recent conversation with a friend who feels very strongly about this topic last night. ( ;P )

So... often you'll hear someone making fun of or teasing someone else because they said they like video games. "Oh that's just a stupid waste of time!"... well guess what, you're a stupid waste of time.

Video games are just as much a hobby as anything else, for example (and the one that we thought of) was playing guitar. If someone plays a lot of guitar and has ultimate skill at it, is that person not investing their time into a good hobby? Don't they deserve some respect? Yes you're right, they do deserve respect. It is a great thing to take up and helps with a lot of useful skills, like timing, rythym, etc.

Now, if someone were to tell you that they play a lot of video games why should that be different? It's not necessarily an easy thing to do, it requires though and skill just as much as the next hobby, and in some cases more. It's science that you can actually gain better reaction skills and crap playing video games, and there are definately games out there that will certainly teach you many other useful skills. So stop hating on people who play video games! Unless it's obsessive and it's the only thing you do (that is, if it starts to take presidence over your social life) then gaming is an awesome hobby to have.

I'll gladly admit that I play video games, and there's nothing wrong with it. If any of you haven't, then you suck, but you suck more if you've made fun of anyone for playing video games, be ashamed of yourself and go cry in a box if you have done this.

And I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say who told me to make this post, but thanks for the idea, it's an important thing for everyone to know about and be aware of. :]

So go ahead and tell me your opinions, or if you just wanna say how much gaming rocks then that's cool too.

Idea.

2006-11-19T19:57:00.000-05:00

If I can stay consistent with my pocket sketchbook then I'm going to start posting 4 or 5 pages from that every week or something. Either one a day, or all of 'em on saturday. Just to keep things fresh.

Yay!

2006-11-16T22:28:00.000-05:00

Yeah, so lately I've found myself running out of crap to keep myself busy with. I wish I had the energy to do a lot of things, productive things. It's really weird, once I get home I have like an hour long drill of stuff to do. Eating, playing guitar for a couple seconds, fighting (playing with) my dog, check out some stuff on the computer...

But then I hit a blank point, where I just stop wherever I am and just sit. Waiting for something to happen even though I know it won't. Not only is it boring, it's a huge waste of time. The worst part of it is, I can do this sometimes for hours... literally just sitting in front of the computer listening to the same 5 or 6 songs over and over again, or whatever I had stuck in my head during the day. One thing I can say is that I get a lot of thinking done while doing this, but to be honest I'm getting sick of thinking stuff through all the time. I wish I could empty my head out or something, there's too much stuff going on up there. If only we could go back to simpler times. When thinking didn't occur, and you just did stuff.

I dunno, maybe I need a psychologist or something. I'm retarded.

Stop this tr-- ... book?

2006-11-15T21:24:00.000-05:00

For anyone who thinks they are, or would like to be my best friend you now have some huge competition. I've met my new best friend and his name is the 400 Series Strathmore Sketchbook. I stumbled upon it while buying crappy brushes for art class. There was only one of these left on the shelf and it caught my eye just as someone else had put it down -- yup, it was meant to be. Anyway, I just thought I'd share that with you guys. Out.

The Call

2006-11-14T18:16:00.000-05:00

The Wanderings of Someone's Little Rabbit Friend

2006-11-11T21:05:00.000-05:00

Here is most likely what was both the most fun and meaningful assignment to have come out of grade 10 art. Our goal was to make a continual progressive story of pictures ( something like that ) with some sort of theme inside of 4 long strips of paper.

I'm not sure how the idea came to me, but I ended up using this little rabbit guy and titles of Beatles songs/lyrics as the theme for mine. Looking back on it now, I'm pretty happy with it. This was probably also the first full fledged drawing that I ever used my sweet as heck markers on too, it was a good time. It actually took a really long time to scan this thing in and put it together into one piece, so you'll have to forgive me for not being able to get all of the pictures into one continous strip.

Hope you like it.

[Lyrics here]

2006-11-09T21:50:00.000-05:00

Led Zeppelin - Swan Song...

The greatest instrumental guitar song ever? I think so.
Sometimes I think that songs with no lyrics are even better, because then you can create your own through the emotion that the song makes you feel as an individual. Also meaning that every person could have different feelings and interpretations of the same song.

Now that I think about it though... Tommy Emmanuel's entire collection of instrumentals may be better. For those of you that know him, you'll understand. For those of you that don't, get a hold of some of his cd's or something somehow. Now.

Also as a sidenote: Thanks to Beth for finding my grade 9 art sketchbook at school. There's actually a huge slot in the back of the art room full of our classes' grade 9 art books, pretty cool to check out people's art, especially when you don't have to ask them. Anyway, I'll probably put some of that stuff up soon so stay frosty.

Out.

More Anatomy Stuff I Guess

2006-11-06T16:20:00.000-05:00

So here's some more anatomy. Sorry I don't have anything more exciting but, you can all live with it I'm sure.

I think I might be able to dig up some stuff from last year's art class. But I lost my sketchbook from last year which kinda sucks. Not only have I lost the art itself, but the chance to use it in a portfolio later on which is sort of kinda really important if I want to get anywhere with this stuff as a career. Maybe I'll cry about it sometime or something... that usually brings stuff back.

Also, thanks for the smarties Elena and Jackie they were tasty-licious. : )

I'm these wuns

2006-11-05T14:33:00.000-05:00

According to the site that Jackie showed us I look like these people...

Top left to right: Conor Oberst, Kristen Bell, Frank Zappa, Syd Barrett
Bottom left to right: Fiona Xie, Hirosue Ryoko, Rudie Voller, Burt Lancaster

... not.

Out of all of those the only name I recognize is Frank Zappa. :S

*

2006-11-02T19:50:00.000-05:00

Do you eat the red ones last?

Ode to a dog walker

2006-10-23T22:56:00.000-04:00

I started thinking about Mr. Barrett today after hearing/reading some stuff. Usually on my walk to the bus stop every morning I would see him walking the dog around the block. And I'm not sure whether he knew who I was or if he was just doing it because he would pretty much see me every day at the same time, but he would always give me a smile if I threw a glance his way. That smile would often change my outlook on the day quite significantly... all it took was a smile.

The fact that I knew him more or less solely as "Johanna's dad" and "the guy I see walking the dog every morning" really makes me feel like I should be getting to know people better. You'd never know if someone could have been a really great friend of yours or something if you never gave it a shot. Then you realize this when such options are no longer available to you. Just something to think about...

... I don't claim to even begin to realize what something like this must feel like for someone. I have never experienced a major loss in the family. So I really have no idea what to say or how to relate to this with anyone. So instead of trying to say anything, I made that picture.

Hand sketches... with thumbs attached

2006-10-21T15:24:00.000-04:00

And here are the hand sketches. They're drawn using a book by one George B. Bridgman, an artist, and master of anatomy. Who is also dead. Death aside, his books are really great for learning anatomy which is extremely important. It includes skeletal structure, muscles, and uses for every single part on the human body ( well, minus a few I guess : / ) .

Oh and as a sort of easter egg, or if you're really bored or something... see if you can spot something strange in the sketches on the second page.

New sketches

2006-10-20T22:45:00.000-04:00

I haven't really sketched anything new since my last post but I guess according to the rules I still have to post something by the end of the week. If I remembered to take my personal sketchbook home I have some sketches of hands that I can scan in tomorrow... although not the most exciting thing it's better than nothing. I'll try and remember to do it before going to John's super amazing thing tomorrow.

In the Darker Side of Town

2006-10-16T19:56:00.000-04:00

This is proabaly a bit late but... On the service trip there was this one guy that Jonathan, John, and myself met named Michael MacKenzie, (I think that's what he said his name was, correct me if I'm wrong guys :S ) he was lying down in the grass when we met him. So today while I was thinking of the trip and how I'm no good at that phylisophical/thought-provoking writing stuff, I thought I would try and draw something that I remembered from it instead. I can't remember exactly what he looked like, but this is as best as I could picture him.

For anyone who's curious I did this in black ball-point pen and grey markers (which apparently turn a purple-y colour when used over pen).

So Answers the Apprentice:

2006-10-15T13:02:00.000-04:00

As promised, here is the return of our friend "The Back". And I'd also like to suggest to all you little aspiring artists out there,(not that I'm in any position to be giving you advice) this is an awesome and very helpful way of putting your shading skills to practise. You don't necessarily have to use naked people, but at least something that has a very solid form that you can understand. Then as long as there is an intense shadow, or light, on whatever you're using it will be much easier to draw. Have fun, and don't get me in trouble if your parents find you looking up naked people on the internet :( .

Training

2006-10-13T22:58:00.000-04:00

Some of us may have seen this already but that's okay, this is just a test.

Here we are...

2006-10-12T21:29:00.000-04:00

'Your greatest enemy is yourself.

Mastering others makes you strong, but mastering yourself makes you fearless.'

Well I thought I'd make a new blog because my old one just plain sucked. There's nothing stopping this one from sucking too but hopefully it won't come to that. And uh... I think I'm going to open up the lines for some kind of suggestions as to what I can do with this blog, if there's anything someone thinks I could do regularly without too much trouble go ahead and tell me. Anything is fair game.

Except for poetry or creative literature and stuff.