A happy wolf taking a dip in a river.

Rendered in pencil.

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Cheetah, rendered in pencil.

Yes, I am an animal nut. I am also too fickle to choose a favourite animal; they're all too cool!

Snake shedding its skin.

Rendered with watercolour pencils.

This is one of my older portfolio pieces.

Kettle rendering exercise

A lighting exercise using pencils and a copper kettle.

Light from the left, light from the right, and light from the top, boo boo bah doo!

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Good ol' M. C. Escher.

This was an exercise in ink using crosshatching to create tone.

Sketch in the park

One drawing class, we went down to the local park to sketch the trees, benches, lamp posts... maybe not the guy driving that small street-cleaning thingamee...

He passed me three times while I sat and scribbled out this image. I don't know if he wanted me to draw him, or whether he was waiting for me to leave so he could sweep under my bench.

Who can ever know...

I did this one with pencil. This was after the sun came out, and we ventured out of the shopping centre, where we had taken refuge when heavy rain took offence at our drawing activities. (There's only so much you can do under a leaky umbrella before you admit defeat, and head for the nearest source of hot chocolate.)

Squid queen and floating cat

Nothing like a floating cat with which to start your day.


"No matter how hard he tried, he could not get his feet to touch the ground" was the caption of our Book Illustration assignment, based on the theme of Chris Van Allsburg's book, "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick". Our content was open, so my obvious choice was to depict a group of very bad mice who were up to something. With graphite pencils.


Our second assignment was to show a gruesome and startling metamorphosis. Squid appeared to be the dish of the day amongst my classmates for some reason. But MY squid-lady has class! So, if you're suddenly transforming into a sea-loving form, at least you can bask in the comfort of knowing that none of your subjects would DARE mention it. At least, not to your multi-tentacled face.

This was a pencil drawing that I scanned and then painted up in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet.