Crazy Sheep Halya

2011-08-26T14:59:00.000-04:00

Still a good guy

2011-06-12T21:39:00.002-04:00

My boyfriend's brother is a lawyer, but he wants everyone to know that he's still a good guy/superhero!

Christmas

2011-02-17T21:29:00.002-05:00

This Christmas, although a little late in posting, I went to see the Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls. It's an english Christmas tradition for me (Ukrainian Christmas is in January).

2010-12-29T20:33:00.002-05:00

Often when I run out of ideas and just feel like doodling, I draw people I've seen throughout the day. Today I happened to look in the mirror.

Dido Stepan Design

2010-08-07T21:13:00.003-04:00

And accompanying my Baba is my Dido, who remembers meeting her at a volleyball game. She was sassy.

Baba Stepka design

2010-08-06T21:23:00.004-04:00

This is my Baba design for that board I'm doing in my spare time. It looks like me though. I guess that's just family. I also don't colour often because I can't, but I liked how this turned out.

Ice cream

2010-08-04T20:56:00.000-04:00

A still more glorious dawn awaits...

2010-06-03T20:29:00.002-04:00

Big Kahuna

2010-05-15T22:48:00.002-04:00

A dude I saw in Jamaica.

Crab Battle

2010-04-20T23:07:00.003-04:00

A quick doodle of Snake - the next drawing challenge at work. I liked MGS 3 personally.

Clapton

2010-04-09T21:51:00.003-04:00

A few months ago I saw Beck and Clapton in Toronto. I thought I'd finally draw him, after a drawing challenge at work was issued ;)

2010-03-22T21:31:00.003-04:00

A character I'm developing for a short board for myself. He's based off my grandpa. The story is one of the first times he met my Baba.

Sketch dumped

2010-03-10T18:01:00.002-05:00

So much death

2010-01-19T13:02:00.002-05:00

Parents

2009-12-19T16:27:00.003-05:00

This is my Christmas gift to my parents this year. My mom was always asking for a drawing of her and my dad on the bike (photo reference).

I can't colour very well (gradients galore!), but I wouldn't want to burn this every time I came home and saw it on the wall :)

Sunshine

2009-10-26T18:25:00.008-04:00

Since I read so much and draw so little, I decided to draw stuff from the books I read. These are from the book Sunshine; the main characters. WOH, that guy is way emo. Look at him go.

More Burlesque Life Drawing

2009-10-14T18:06:00.006-04:00

The Screwtape Letters

2009-10-04T22:18:00.003-04:00

I just finished reading the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis and was inspired to draw something.

Sketches

2009-09-02T18:17:00.005-04:00

People from my sketchbook. I need to draw more. And more... and more...

Kinda Lazy

2009-08-11T21:15:00.003-04:00

Still Around, I Am

2009-08-04T21:20:00.002-04:00

Two months, two jobs, packing up apartment, moving, unpacking apartment, finished second job. Now time to myself. What fun!

Scandalous Life Drawing

2009-05-12T22:26:00.004-04:00

Did some life drawing on Queen St W in Toronto. It was a lot of fun! Too bad the model hid her face behind a giant mask; just in case you don't know what the heck that is.

"Popular" Animation

2009-04-08T23:02:00.001-04:00

The hair was a bitch, and I'm still not fully satisfied with the entire thing anyway, but I've done what I can. Fun though.

Keeping it up!

For Stinka

2009-03-28T17:26:00.002-04:00

Something I did upon my sister's request. ^_^

East End Life Drawing

2009-03-19T19:10:00.004-04:00

A few girls from Cuppa Coffee Studio started up life drawing sessions in Toronto's East End, since the East End sucks. It was really cool and laid back and I totally recommend to anyone interested!!

Phil the Tour Guide

2009-02-26T15:45:00.003-05:00

I went on a trip to England and Paris for just one week; not nearly enough time other than the whistle stop tours of London and Paris. One of the days, my friends and I took a tour bus to Windsor, Stonehenge, and Oxford. Phil here was our guide and every woman on that bus fell madly in love with him that day. Good for you Phil.

Over the Holidays

2009-01-06T16:39:00.011-05:00

Over the holidays, I ate way too many pomegranates... and I still have one left!! It's official - I'm addicted.

Ukee Dancing

2008-12-29T21:37:00.003-05:00

Continuing on with the subject of my childhood - I used to do Ukrainian dancing. It became more fun as I got older though...

My typical soccer game

2008-12-21T18:55:00.003-05:00

I was never one for sports.

Finally Pandas

2008-12-18T16:16:00.006-05:00

Okay, I think I've finally found them now. Huzzah!

Ben

2008-12-16T15:38:00.000-05:00

My friend's dog.

2008-12-15T18:18:00.004-05:00

Stupid pandas. I don't think I've explored this design enough. I feel the idea is not yet fully developed...

board sample

2008-12-11T16:22:00.004-05:00

This is a page from that board I was working on. I think I'll go back to drawing in my sketchbook again.

Dexter attempt

2008-12-02T22:07:00.004-05:00

Drawing Dexter's face is HAAAARD. But I kinda like this one so I thought I'd post it. I don't know what he's doing. It sort of came out that way. Let's say he's... walking...

Sick?

2008-12-02T21:12:00.003-05:00

My head is stuffed up... but I don't feel sick... yet.

2008-12-02T15:36:00.001-05:00

2008-12-01T17:13:00.003-05:00

The other two supporting characters in the scene. The next one is an ox-bull-bear-god type creature. The first guy looks kind of angry - he's not usually.

2008-11-27T15:59:00.005-05:00

A first concept of one of the characters in a short board I'm working on putting together. Was that just a run-on sentence?

Hey, who's that?

2008-11-23T12:53:00.001-05:00

2008-11-14T11:38:00.003-05:00

Trying something different today.

Pandas

2008-11-07T16:08:00.002-05:00

Because I like the idea of their box-shaped heads.

Nov 5

2008-11-05T19:46:00.002-05:00

Legend of the Seeker

2008-11-03T13:45:00.004-05:00

I liked her dress, even though the show was pretty horrible, lol. But I'll watch the next one, just to see the looks on my friends' faces ;)

2008-10-28T14:45:00.002-04:00

On the topic of baby monkeys and the like...

monkey baby

2008-10-27T16:17:00.000-04:00

pandas

2008-10-27T15:11:00.001-04:00

2008-10-26T20:59:00.000-04:00

boots

2008-10-22T23:04:00.004-04:00

Lord of Emperors

2008-10-22T21:34:00.003-04:00

I just finished the Sarantine Mosaic - two excellent books written by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Tiger Hug

2008-10-04T18:35:00.003-04:00

I went to the zoo the other week. The tigers are always my favourite to draw, as they are also my very favourite animal. I wish I could bring one home.

2008-09-13T16:21:00.003-04:00

Roughs of a character I'm designing for a new animation lip sync. The next one will be a boy, lol.

2008-08-14T16:30:00.001-04:00

Bug Girl Animation

2008-08-12T21:12:00.002-04:00

Well, here she is. She's doing stuff!

So much stuff...

Well, now that I'm done this one, I think I'll start planning for my next one. Practice makes perfect they say.

Jeb Walk Cycle

2008-08-12T21:11:00.003-04:00

This is something I dug up while looking through old files on my computer. He's about to fall over it looks like...

Post Script: Mind the flashing hand.

2008-07-22T22:19:00.001-04:00

New Ideas

2008-07-21T17:13:00.001-04:00

I'm in the works of figuring out a new animation. I sort of revamped old chicken girl from previous years. She's going to do stuff.

YAH STUFF!

2008-06-29T20:18:00.000-04:00

People at the Bookstore

2008-06-11T18:37:00.002-04:00

And my hena tattoo. Woot.

Very dusty kid

2008-05-11T15:10:00.004-04:00

I've been looking at Apocalypto. I like that movie.

c a f e

2008-05-09T17:16:00.009-04:00

Sock-eye

2008-05-02T15:08:00.005-04:00

Fishing

2008-05-01T15:05:00.003-04:00

I've been looking through my encyclopedia of animals and felt like drawing fish; especially the Pacific red sock-eye salmon fish. They're weird looking.

flash

2008-04-28T15:01:00.003-04:00

Playing around in flash again. Since my film, I haven't really touched it. I don't think anything will ever beat a plain ol' pencil and paper though.

The End

2008-04-27T20:50:00.002-04:00

Well, here she is - the cumulation of 8 months of blood and sweat and all that gross stuff that making a film comes with.

...It was fun. Enjoy the film!

Now on to other stuff...

Elwood

2008-04-16T15:13:00.003-04:00

I've had my guitar for one whole year now, and now that I have more free time, I've picked him up once again (after 3 whole months).

Drawing for myself

2008-04-10T09:43:00.003-04:00

Since I have some time to myself now, I've been trying to conjure up some nice new drawings.

Toronto Zoo

2008-04-06T22:23:00.004-04:00

I went to the zoo today. My film is finished. Yessss......
Now time to find a job...

character poster

2008-03-08T21:48:00.006-05:00

More Jeb. I'm well into my way on my film, soon tie-down/rough rough clean up will begin. This is Jeb for the year's character poster. I wonder what he's saying?

mini poster

2008-02-19T21:57:00.003-05:00

We're asked to do some promo art for our film. This is something I had in mind. I like the obvious filter (lol) , it makes it look...western...ish. It will be a poster/dvd cover in the end.

sketch

2008-02-11T21:00:00.000-05:00

Gary sketches

2008-02-08T15:49:00.000-05:00

Animals drawings were mentioned...thought I'd post some :) This is my cat Gary. He's a good subject, although he moves too much to get any more than a gesture. There was a lockdown at school today...

sketchbook

2008-02-04T19:01:00.001-05:00

Mind the nasty quality. Sketchbook's are supposed to be messy anyhow...

reel

2008-01-31T19:26:00.000-05:00

Ew, never mind the music track, it's just filler; rough voices too.

animation angst

2008-01-21T23:16:00.000-05:00

Animation angst - the act of which an animator is de-motivated, so to speak, and feels like all the work they produce has the talent equivalent of a sandwich. Now the real question is, a tuna sandwich or a chicken sandwich...?

life draw

2008-01-16T18:31:00.001-05:00

Colour test

2008-01-09T16:28:00.000-05:00

More or less what the final will look like...I suppose. Unless I drastically change something...like the story - hah!

Colour

2007-11-30T18:10:00.000-05:00

I always envisioned Jeb as having a blue coat and red pants. But I've become quite fond of the red one in the middle, or number four. I dunno, more colour tests may be needed.

Desk o' Jebs

2007-11-22T22:05:00.001-05:00

This is my animation table at home. As you can see I've posted it with Jebs. More Jebs to come!
Go Jeb go!

life drawing

2007-11-22T16:21:00.000-05:00

Winter Fair 2007

2007-11-08T17:49:00.000-05:00

My favorite were the KKK sheep. I miss the birds from previous years, they were always so freaky. Damn bird flu.

Concept

2007-11-06T20:23:00.001-05:00

Well, it's been back to school for 2 months already. Some concept art from my film - the two main characters, Jeb and Bert. The blurry picture quality makes me laugh.

Almost done

2007-08-21T21:57:00.001-04:00

I really do like animating in Flash (the Johnny Test way anyway), really! My eyes just tend to burn if I look at the screen too long, and then I start to look like this, don't you?

Harry Potter

2007-08-15T16:00:00.001-04:00

I must be in a drawing-type mood or something. What is that mysterious ticking noise...?

HOLY CRAP!

2007-08-13T23:08:00.001-04:00

I just heard the news! The Monster Backpack is in the Teletoon finalists! We're going to Ottawa!! Weee! I don't even care about winning, all I wanted was to see it on the big screen!
Woo hoo! Good luck everyone!
You can check everyone out on the Teletoon Website.

Bert

2007-08-13T22:39:00.001-04:00

Well, I guess rain isn't all that bad - it forces me to be less bored.

2007-08-12T19:39:00.000-04:00

I like to draw people okay!

post it

2007-07-17T18:41:00.001-04:00

I've been working on my film a little bit. Post its rock my striped socks.

Flash

2007-07-06T17:14:00.000-04:00

Just playing around in Flash between animating scenes :)

Cafe Hoppin'

2007-06-22T22:38:00.000-04:00

Some more people on the lovely streets of Halifax. Too much caffeine burns, and I only had a juice!

Public Gardens

2007-06-18T18:29:00.001-04:00

Some drawings sketched in the Public Gardens at Halifax. Nice day! Finally ;) Apparently it says don't feed the ducks...yeah we fed them.

Rival Faces

2007-06-11T21:11:00.000-04:00

Just exploring Jeb and his main rival Bert. I really have no idea what I want Bert to look like. Something easy to animate obviously, but in contrast of design to Jeb. Playing is fun. Holy cow I need a camera :P Thanks for the offer though Yuriy :P

Scribblies

2007-06-10T15:36:00.000-04:00

Some townsfolk. They don't like Jeb. Except for maybe the girl in the middle. She likes Jeb. Sooooooon I will get an actual camera so my eyes don't burn from the crappy quality. Sooooon!

Hey Look!

2007-06-01T19:31:00.000-04:00

Apparently I lied about the last post. But the picture is still crappy. Look! It's me! Hah. The only camera I have is in my laptop.
This summer I'm going to work on my film. It's about a pirate lost in the mid West. Jeb returns in his very own film! But these are warm up sketches since I haven't drawn in a while :P

I'll be ba-ack...

2007-05-25T18:31:00.000-04:00

Hey anyone who stumbles across my blog. This summer has not equipped me with a scanner so I can't put up any of my stuff. I'm in not-so-sunny-at-the-moment Halifax doin' up my internship. Wee! I hope I don't need glasses by the end of the summer (flash all day). You may or may not get an updated photo here and there, but if not I hope good days for the summer! Ta until September :)

DONE!

2007-04-19T13:51:00.000-04:00

Holy done, Batman!

Well, there's 8 whole months in only 2 minutes. But I think it was worth it. Since I hear that you can't advertise your film if you want it in festivals, here's a teaser poster. Eventually one day I'll post the movie for all to see on the great-wide internet. I did the line art for the poster, while Rob Krete painted it since I can't paint well. All the background kids are us who worked on the film. There's me!

Sorry for those of you who've been checking in without an update here - my film took up all of my time. But now I have nothing to do and I kind of feel...like I need to do work...

Is that a bad thing? ;) Maybe I'll actually sketch for myself.

I wonder how this summer will go for my blog. I may or may not be scannerless out in Halifax. We'll see :)

Cheers! And excellent films everyone!! :D

T-shirt

2007-03-22T21:49:00.000-04:00

T-shirt designs at school. This was mine, I wonder if it'll actually become a t-shirt? Someone added Sheridun x40 below it. I would have spelt the name correctly, but I like the x40. Forty years!

The other designs were real sweet too. But, just because zombie holds a special place in my sketchbook - Go zombie, go!

Work

2007-03-02T17:45:00.000-05:00

Don't get me wrong, I like my job (at the college bookstore), but 8 hours of staring across at a clothing rack kind of gets to you. Especially when you're the only one that can hear it talking...

DQ?

2007-02-12T18:43:00.000-05:00

Monster Backpack

2007-02-03T12:51:00.000-05:00

Layout design for The Monster Backpack. Scary colours! Almost there, but not quite. :)

Animation Class

2007-02-01T16:55:00.000-05:00

Maybe when I finish my lip-sync assignment, I'll post it up for viewing :) But for now - some classmates.