Duncan Weller's Faves

Crosshatching was used to build up the shadows. It's probably my favourite drawing technique. Works best with pen and ink. This is the cover image for one of my children's picture books.

This is the other half of Return of the Polar Bear, a drawing in my moleskine. It is after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, an artist from the 16th century. I began it as a way to try out his intricate use of line and hatching. The subject matter altered some along the way - his etching didn't have any animals, and of course mine had to be all about the animals. I also simplified. It turned out to be a wonderful lesson.

Nyx is the goddess before manifestation begins, the daughter of Chaos. She is the Eternal Darkness before there was light. Mother of numerous primordial powers such as Death, Sleep, the Fates, Nemesis and Old Age.

A watercolour illustration for the book, The Girl from the Moon. One day I'll finish the book.

I've got a fair way to go with this one, but I'm happy with how it's going.

Reference from @blueyamamoto Photo by @makoto_t_gyro

Watercolor painting detail

Acrylic on 5 x 7 canvas

"Rick Grimes" Acrylic on Canvas 9"x12"

This is a good friend Mike Lee. Before he came to Canada, he took a bus to school in Hong Kong. On that bus he would sometimes see Bruce Lee on that bus, too! Of course, this was before Bruce was famous.

This is a picture of the lady at the cash register who bags produce at the produce store. She let me take her picture and I painted from it. I gave the picture to her but she wishes it had been done before she gained weight. : (

Pencil drawing of the Dalai Lama

Playing with faces is fun and I can see where this might actually suggest some kind of meaning, although I can't yet put my finger on it.

A fun experiment. I wonder what this would like in full colour.

In my Blue Star sketchbook serious art has been interrupted by two cartoon characters I came up with years ago that I drew for my university student newspaper. They're back! Adolescent silliness returns with the adventures of Hardball and Riley. There's a bit of allegory at work in this story, so it's not as infantile as it first seems. They are certainly fun and my main characters are very easy to draw. I do sometimes spend too much time on the background.

Another little practice run - drawings from my head with no sketching beforehand. A bit risky, but results can astonish.

This is a little practice run with faces, all drawn from my head without sketching in pencil first.

This is the centre section of a cartoon I did back in my university days for the student newspaper. It was fun to do, but took a lot of time. I hope to put it into a collection of comics.

River painted the background and I painted him into his picture.

Black cat