dougcockell.com - Sketchbook


This is Rudolph in his flying helmet. The focus of all the attention is, of course, on his nose, but here it's done without colour.	There's a bit of everything in this: colored pencil, marker and ink.	This schoolhouse is rendered in ink and scratchboard. The dark areas have white lines and the light areas black lines.


Jalopy When cars were a still a novelty they only did about thirty miles an hour, but it must have felt like a hundred today.	Owl I did this one with Robert Bateman in mind when we worked together at Lord Elgin High School.	I call this one "The Wright Stuff". The Wright brothers were basically bicycle mechanics with a death wish.


This is Macbeth, apparently sick and tired of all the drama.	A trio performs somewhere near the north pole.	I saw the Captain Dex in Florida and couldn't resist giving him sea legs.


Boat Rental I love pictures that suggest a moment of helpless anticipation before absolute chaos.	Winter Stop This is a very simple sketch, but the swinging vertical composition seems to work better than it has any right to.	This sketch of a golfer has a sort of manic elegance. Like the game, he makes less and less sense the closer you look.