Elephant Balloon

2011 Sketch Journal

One of my favourite personal projects of 2011 was my 2011 sketch journal. Each day, I tried to draw something meaningful that happened to me. Now that I can look back on the entire year of sketches, I'm surprised how eventful and noteworthy it was!

It retold me of old friends moving back into town, so many babies being born, getting to be a hand model (ha!), learning the ukulele, getting stuck at the border, Japan's earthquake/tsunami, milestone birthday, a Canadian shift in politics, first time freelancing full time for the whole year, working on my first commercial(s), Vancouver Island's little earthquake, deaths of major leaders, Canuck's Stanley Cup run, the devastating riot, the Wall of Hope, a handful of meaningful vacations, revisiting the past, 2 major colds, breaking my wrist(!!!) and a milestone anniversary. There are SO many stories in this tiny 2.5 x 4 inch sketchbook.

I'm not one who has warmed up to being too personal online, but here I share with you some random pages from my sketch journal:

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I hope you enjoyed some of that. I'd love to hear from you all who frequent my blog and show up on my blog stats ;) Please say hello and I wish all of you a very happy and meaningful 2012!!!

Here's my new 2012 sketch journal.

A rush job for the children. Too bad they didn't post the HD version. Merry Christmas!

I Make Children Cry

Here are a couple of animations I did for Super Simple Learning with Franfou Studios.

From reading the Youtube comments, I've apparently I've made a bunch of children cry with the animation of the elephant and the clock. With over 2.5 million views, that's a lot of children crying.

I love some of the comments though: "My son cried too, and I had to laugh and tell him its ok...he still yells everytime we watch it when the elephant comes out. He says, "No elephant, you too heavy!"" ~trethoma

"My daughter starts screaming as soon as the elephant shows up, I think it's the way he's announced, "AN ELEPHANT?? OH NO!!!!" with that menacing change in the music, lol!" ~FRANKYMOOK

"My 16-month-old signs "help" when the elephant gets on the clock. So cute!" ~pir4te4lyfe

Kids are very cute indeed.

I found some doodles on my desk.

I sculpted a pair of earrings this summer and I totally forgot to wear them until now.

I usually try to avoid medication but after taking a flight home with a fever, cough and sinus infection, my body was pretty much done for. Here's hoping the antibiotics do their thing.