Duncan Weller's Uploads

I love doing pen work. Might do an entire children's book in this style. Maybe faded colours.

Fun with pencil. I use a 9H pencil to carve images into the paper and then a B pencil to draw over them, giving the drawings the feeling of textures.

I have female friends who are big science fiction fans. The is for them.

This drawing, with a bit of watercolour, was done years ago in North Vancouver during a figure drawing session. Probably 15 - 20 minutes. Watercolour, subtly employed, can have wonderful affects. The challenge of working fast forced me to ditch excess thinking. And it's funny, because at first I thought, "Oh, this is terrible." Then the next day, with fresh eyes, or checking out the drawing in a mirror, I think, "Wow! How did I not see how good this is?" Never throw out your artwork immediately after a drawing session. Give them a few days and look at your work with fresh eyes.

Chandra was a wonderful model who posed for me in North Vancouver years ago.

I hope to make a funny little book from this idea. Any suggestions?

This is a stream of consciousness drawing. Turned out okay.

Donna was one of our best models in Victoria, B.C..

A stream on consciousness drawing.

An automatic drawing, everything is out of my head with only the briefest idea of a story line. I played around with shapes and lines and shading to see what affect would result. It was fun, but time consuming.

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

An etching from my university fine art days.

Stream of consciousness portrait. Just for fun and... to use of old markers and pens that have been lying around forever. In other words, getting rid of old materials.

This was a twenty minute drawing for a figure drawing sessions in Victoria, B.C..

This is a drawing for a poetry book. Sometimes I do the drawing first and then write the poetry.

Part of a huge doodle. Started as a doodle while I talked to a friend on the phone. She was one of those non-stop-don't-interupt-me talkers. I got hours of work done while on the phone. It ended up being purchased by our local public gallery for $4,000 bucks. Not bad! And I may use it in a future children's book.

Playing around for fun.

In the style of Lucien Freud, this little painting didn't take long, but was fun and an accurate representation of the model. Plus size models are often just as interesting as many of the thinner models we got in drawing sessions. Beauty exists for different people in different ways. Character is certainly a big aspect.

Did this in a sketchbook for fun - a bit of science fiction.

Doodling will give you ideas for projects that you didn't expect. The characters for my book, Flight of the Silk, came from sketches. This picture is one illustration for the book.