Heading home

So I was supposed to leave at 9 am this morning but for some reason my flight was cancelled. So now I leave here at 3 pm. Oh we'll, I'm excited to get home! Here's a few final pics before I leave!

Final candy princess

We all got matching tshirts :P only workshop students will get it

T approves lol

And finally Maria and Priyesh at the mall where we got the tshirts printed!

I will make a re-cap and final thoughts post once I'm home and settled :)

Thanks for following with me this month! It was a blast!

-Mars

Back home and moving forward

Hey everyone!

So I made it home in one piece, after a stressful and annoying flight clusterfuck. But cancelled flights aside, I am happy to be home and ready to get a move on with this whole career thing :)

So, my thoughts on the whole experience;

It was awesome! Even over all the techniques and artwork created while there, I am more excited for the new thoughts and general inspiration gained from being at the Imaginism house. I have returned with a new-found view on everything and an even stronger drive to improve beyond what we learned. I've only been home for about 2 days and already I am planning my next year of pieces to finish, jobs to apply to and workshops and cons to visit. Bobby, Kei and Thierry have really lit that spark under me to get moving and pursue the things I want.

As for the techniques taught by the badass Thierry LaFontaine, I can't thank him enough. He has a real way of breaking down complex things to simple to understand analogies that just makes everything click. And once those click you are just rockin and a rollin on. He was a great teacher and I hope to have the chance to hang out with him again in the future.

While there I got to meet some awesome people from around the world, and develop some great connections with people are certainly headed in a great direction! Maria, Priyesh, Sophie I wish you guys the best and I hope we can all keep in touch!

All in all I would say, if you are interested in learning a new way of thinking, and really giving your art a boost, I'd say this is worth your attention. The Imaginism crew really put forth a lot of effort to share their knowledge and give everyone a chance to chase after their dreams.

Thank you everyone at Imaginism for the incredible experience and life-long memories. It was a pleasure meeting everyone, and I hope you all have a safe and fun Christmas!

Cheers,
-Mars

Painting process

Here are a few pics of the painting so far and a few others :P

Enjoy!

And it's snowing again! Ugh cold is getting to me lol. About 3 days left! 

Candy Princess

The candy princess got a bit of a face-lift. This will be the one I am going to do the acrylic painting of after some more refinement in Photoshop. I'm not the greatest at acrylic painting so wish me luck!

And here is the final ready to be transferred for acrylic painting. I'm both excited and terrified for this part! :P

Wholly CRAP!

It's already Thursday night! I thought it was Tuesday yesterday, and now it's almost Friday.

These last few days have been some of the most intense almost-all-nighters of my life. Stayin up till the wee hours making sure I get the work done before 9:30. But it's literally daily that I see some sort of improvement in my work. So I will have some good new fresh pieces for my portfolio when I get home. But DAYUM is it crazy :P

Anyway heres a few more pics and then I'm off to get more work done!

So that's about what my coffee has been looking most mornings before I stir it :P cannot be good for me at all.

My pile of dirty clothes is telling me something...

Bobby sketchin for Maria 

And him sketchin for me

:D

And then we got to visit the studio! Such a badass logo on the wall, I love it

Kei showing us some original work. Was such a treat seeing that artwork :) So much inspiration!

And just before we left, got everyone together for a group pic :P 

Aaaaaand finally, some of the work I have been doing. They are all unfinished lol but still things are getting better and better :) 

An alien walking suit being chased by a terrier 

The candy princess :)

and finally a ginger seed scatterer

What an experience it has been so far, and can't wait to see what else is around the corner. And then, the real fun begins finishing everything and getting a real solid portfolio!

Till next time,

-Mars

busy busy BUSY!

Sorry I havent posted in a bit, its getting more and more intense as we go, but in a good way.

Mostly just drawing, practicing, and creating some pretty sweet stuff if I do say so myself. I can feel I am getting a bit better and its very exciting.

Heres some pics of some stuff from the last week I think :P

My breakfast for last week or so. perty dericious :P 

snowwwwww

maor snowwwwwwwwwwwww

Bobby stopped by for lunch one day and did some sketches :P

You can't tell but this thing glows in the dark :D pretty cool

A present for me :)

 Sophie keeps blowin our minds with crazy good food!

And a couple sneak peeks at my update of my last piece after getting some fantastic feedback from Bobby. Keep an eye out for that in the near future :)

And these little guys are for another project that should have some finished stuff to see soon

And we went to watch Frozen at this badass theatre today. There's all kinds of cool decorations from Star Trek and video games and even a sort of toy store right there in the theatre. Crazy, and the movie was surprisingly good (and of course exactly what you expect from a Disney movie :P)

And we ended it off with some Poutine in a "shady" part of town according to Thierry :P It was pretty damn delicious

And these buildings were kinda cool lookin. Thats about it...

Till next time! Enjoy

-Mars

First piece!

So here is the first finished piece from the Imaginism workshop. Kinda just getting the ball rolling. Can't wait to see what kind of improvements I make in the next few weeks :D

Enjoy!

-Mars