Daily Creativity: Rory meets Duck from Kurzgesagt

Daily Creativity: Rory meets Duck from Kurzgesagt

Daily Creativity: Rory meets Duck from KurzgesagtI love the Kurzgesagt videos and how they explain concepts in an entertaining way. I also really love their art style and especially Duck. If you back them on patreon I think for $40 you get a custom duck made for you and added to the videos, which is pretty cool. I thought it would be fun to create Rory in that art style. I really wanted to promote them and pay homage to them. So here is some fan art. I’m thinking that Rory also loves them.

Made in Adobe Illustrator.

Daily Creativity: Rory as Captain Canuck, Rawr Canuck?

Daily Creativity: Rory as Captain Canuck, Rawr Canuck?

Daily Creativity: Rory as Captain Canuck, Rawr Canuck?Captain Canuck is a lesser known superhero, but a fun one. Since I am a resident of Canada I thought it only fitting that I finally paint Rory as the good ‘ol Captain. Who is a total rip of Captain America but totally not, because of course there are differences, but totally a rip. It’s all good, America rips off the rest of the world right? Not many superheroes use tanfas as their main weapon either.

I struggled with coming up with a Rory’fied name for this one. Captain Rawr was for that other captain. So Rawr Canuck? Dragon Canuck? I don’t know. I do know he will win a poutine eating contest, can swallow a bakers dozen of butter tarts in a single swallow, and is friends with all of the cats on Parliament Hill. (Super Canadian humor for the win).

Watercolor on paper.

Daily Creativity: Snorlax with Rory

Daily Creativity: Snorlax with RoryDaily Creativity: Snorlax with Rory

The Snorlax is one of my favorite pokemon. Today I painted Rory and his friend snoozing. I thought of adding a Totoro to the snuggle pile but I thought that would disrupt the composition. I think I like this pokemon most because it’s big and sleeps a lot. He looks like he would be a good snuggler too. I never like the story part of the game where you have to wake him up with a flute, just let him nap, don’t wake him. Then again pokemon at it’s core is kinda a cruel notion when you think about it from the animal’s point of view. Trapped in tiny balls and forced to fight for humans? No thanks. My snoozing friend here is great because he doesn’t conform to that standard, he finds a bridge and takes a nap.

Watercolors on paper.

Daily Creativity: Rory Celebrates Holi

Daily Creativity: Rory Celebrates Holi

Daily Creativity: Rory Celebrates HoliHoli has been one of my favorite things to honor in my Daily Creativity project. I wrote more about the Holi Festival perviously and why I love it so much. I’m not Hindi but it inspires me. This year I decided that Rory would celebrate. I did this using watercolor and ink on a watercolor block. I actually finished this earlier today but I couldn’t get it to the scanner. I will not be home tomorrow night, I’m staying over at a dojo, so I expect I will have to post my creativity on social media and scan it and post it later. I have two that I still need to post from two weekends ago when I was at my in laws. I scanned them, they just aren’t on this site yet. I’ll get to it.

Daily Creativity: Trash Panda

Daily Creativity: Trash Panda

Daily Creativity: Trash PandaTrash Panda is a tumblr name for a raccoon, but I decided to take the term literally tonight. This is a fountain pen painting. I drew it with a fountain pen and then used water mixed with the ink to create a watercolor, since the ink is water soluble. I really enjoy how these come out, and it gives me a reason to use ink that isn’t waterproof. If you don’t know by now, I have let myself fall headfirst into fountain pens again. I could talk your ear off about them. I write with them, draw with them, I tinker and change their nibs or make frankenpens, and play with ink. So expect some more pieces like this in the future.

Kanwrite Desire Flex pen with Noodler’s The Warden’s Blue ink on paper.