Callan's Sketchblog

I briefly met the lovely young men who do Baritarian Boy (a comic about the history and culture of a fictional eastern european nation) at mocca, so when they ran a fanart contest I decided to toss something off last minute to send in, and lo and behold, I won The Bronze Frolicking Chinchilla for hilarity :D
This is King Einrich the Unwilling, here depicted with the loaf of bread used to lure him, begrudingly, to his coronation. Check out the other entries, there's some fun stuff.

A birthday card for frank- the frankster loves the birth of venus, so it only seems appropriate.


And for coleen's birthday, I did a little watercolour portrait of her, loosely based on this painting.

So my friend Marie, knowing my sense of humour, recently gave me a copy of 'A Day in the Life of an Illustrator', a 1981 kid's book detailing the thrilling life of the freelance artist, and I figure some of you would appreciate it as well. So just what does an illustrator do everyday?

An illustrator tries to convince someone with questionable taste in vests to give her a job! She has lunch with another, hairier illustrator!

She spends money she doesn't have on things she doesn't need! She eats quiche with her plaid flannel wearing sister pat! (I'm not making that last bit up, by the way.)

She wallows in a pit of of despair, self doubt and self loathing at her drawing table at 3 in the morning! All in all, a fairly accurate view of the life :D What's really interesting about the book is spotting all the things that have been rendered obsolete (or nearly so) by the computer- rolodexes! airbrushes! transfer type! photo stat houses! Its hard to imagine a world without command z- no wonder she looks so depressed.