Duncan Weller's Uploads

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

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.

An image for an upcoming poetry book, using lots of crosshatching with Rapidograph pens.

This is an image I used for a poetry book.

A stream on consciousness drawing.

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.

When I lived in Victoria, B.C. I ran a figure drawing session for the local illustrator's society. Often I would head over to other drawing sessions. This is one run by a local gallery.

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

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.

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.

From a Victoria drawing session.

This is a combination of pen and ink, watercolour, pencil crayon, and marker.

Fun with the pencil.

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

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.

An oil portrait painting of fellow I knew in Victoria, B.C.

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

My three nieces doodled all over the background of this canvas and I did the painting of Neve in the foreground. I'll get my other two nieces painted in the summer.

This very small sketch/doodle, enlarged, inspired a six foot tall painting. The background on the painting is incomplete. I'm back at this work in progress based on this small image from a sketchsheet. This painting will appear at my solo show in Thunder Bay in a couple years.

Another fun stream of consciousness drawing and a way to get rid of old pens and markers.

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