Duncan Weller's Uploads

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

Biking is my second love. And I should do more images like this as my imagination flies when I bike.

I ran a figure drawing class in Victoria, B.C. for a couple years. It was a lot of fun and my drawing got better quickly.

Steve is a musician and head sound engineer for Microsoft in Seattle. I drew him after visiting, trying to capture a bit o the otherworldliness of his music.

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

Rapidograph Pens used to create this image with lots of crosshatching. Drawn from my head.

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

This was inspired by driftwood and a bit of a fantasy landscape Idea.

A fun portfolio piece.

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.

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

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.

Using more staining watercolour paints, I was able to glaze a couple layers over the first layer to make for a neat effect.

A portrait of a friend.

This is a little collage (did you know Maxfield Parrish invented collage, not Picasso?) of a characters from one of my children's books. I wondered if this would inspire a book. Not yet.

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.

A twenty minute posed captured in a figure drawing session in North Vancouver.

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.

A Rapidograph inked portrait of a friend, from a photo.

Part of an illustration where city authorities conspire to build roadways that will only get people killed.

Tim was a great model in our figure drawing class. I had him pose for me for other work.