Duncan Weller's Uploads

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

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

Sometimes it's not just the face that make the drawing, but the cloths that fit.

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

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

A self-portrait.

An etching from my university fine art days.

This is a section of a very large drawing. The entire drawing was a massive doodle that could be used in a children's book one day.

This pen and ink drawing is in a poetry book.

I used to do cartoons!

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.

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

Sketch of girl in Mexico, from a photograph.

A fun drawing to do. I usually do a lot of crosshatching, but for this one I went for the smoothness, better to capture the light, I suppose, where crosshatching can be a little distracting. Or look like hair! As some have said.

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.

A portrait of a friend.

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.

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.

This is probably a 15 minute sketch, maybe less, done in a drawing session in Victoria, B.C.

In his seventies, this guy was a great model. Fun to draw. Lots of character.

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.