Duncan Weller's Uploads

My friend Erinn is a great model. Brave and dynamic.

Portrait of an imaginary robot woman. And attempt to use up old markers and short pencil crayons - whatever I've got left.

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.

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.

Done mostly with oil bar, this is more akin to a sketch than a painting. It's great when you can get loose with the process and end up with something that looks like a finished work.

A self-portrait.

Emma holds a mug. I like drawing hands and faces, so why not have them closer together?

Sketch of girl in Mexico, from a photograph.

This is Tim. Tim was shy until he discovered that he was a great model and he was the women's favourite male model for out sessions.

Chalk pastels on paper

A fun doodle. Sometimes it's great to have no focus and just play around.

This was a little watercolour I did for a novel called Flight.

I'm hoping to finish off this children's book this year. It's a lot of work. Too many illustrations - so many the printing cost will jump, so I might have to find a publisher for this one, rather than self-publish. This is acrylic on paper.

Erinn, a fantastic model, sits on a little podium.

This is a quick sketch I did of a shirtless man on a bus.

One of my favourite drawings. You can tell I was really on that day. So few strokes of the pencil caught shape and light. I won't sell this drawing.

One of our best models at the drawings sessions for the Illustrator's Society in Victoria, B.C.

Instead of a sketchbook I draw - doodle - on a table top sized sheet of 100lb paper. This allows me to cross-pollinate visual ideas more easily.

This is a section of a larger drawing to be used in a children's book - one day in the future.

A sketch for a large painting I want to start soon.

This was a model in a figure drawing class leaning on a black pillow. She had awesome hair.