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From a local (Montreal) historical festival; the Pointe á Callière 18th century market. Our version of a RenFaire, but on actual location of the first fort establishing the colony.

Every summer the MTL Archeology museum hosts an 18th century market. It’s kind of a cosplay festival, but paid for by the city. There’s a core group of locals that are very into their costumes being realistic - just like American civil war recreators, or I hear in Germany they have “old west” groups that do American Indian cosplay. But you also just get people showing up in their larping gear or pirate cosplay :)

I don’t know how many USK groups do life drawing on location :) but this is the perfect thing :) They don’t pose for you! But they also can’t leave the area, and can’t break character of you follow them around :)

I haven’t been doing as much classic USK lately, but it was really nice out today :)

Every year in the Spring I hit the bricks and try to remember how paint. I always loose motivation in the winter. Seems like it’s not as fun to paint from photos. I’ve drawn both these places five or six times I’m sure, but it always seems different in different weather, and with different skills.

This was up on the Mountain. (Mont Royale). In our park designed the same Olmstead that did Central Park NYC. That’s Maison Smith. One of the oldest houses in the city. Under wraps for renovation for the second time in ten years.

When is it really going to be spring hey! C’mon guys. I need the sun.

The magic trick is; I don’t try at all to get consistency / perfection with the generations :)

I just blast through as much reference generating as possible for poses and shots and faces, and then redraw everything by hand looking at the resulting collages of reference, AI, and selfies.

It’s a bit like generating an outline and prose blocks for each scene; but then rewriting everything in your own voice.

I’m more of a traditional sketcher, so I’m trying to come up with a digital drawing flow that’s similar to line + watercolor.

It is kind of neat that you can color the line afterwards.

I’m not sold on digital drawing yet; but it seems a bit nuts to do a whole comic traditional :) Unless maybe the goal needs to be becoming *even more* sketchy :)

Ultimately I wasn’t sure I like digital drawing. But it was an interesting experiment.

#DrSketchyMTL

Not sure if r/watercolor likes more sketchy things :)

One day I’m going to break the field of inertia surrounding me and actually make a comic book. Today is not that day, but here’s some sketches.

MTL Insecarium, Display Cases, 11x15”, 7mm HB, watercolor, beauty filter.

This is getting to be a little old now. Things have massively improved since I did this.

It’s my “story”, the images prompted on Midjourney with my own drawings as style ref, then a bunch of hand painting. The style was chosen to allow for hand paints.

Yes, I know there are massive consistency issues, this was just a proof-of-concept.

Ultimately I didn’t working this way, but it was super efficient. I can see this is one possible future of comics.

(University of Quebec at Montreal). I think I’ll take this workshop again. Five days straight of drawing is a pretty great opportunity.