Mary Haasdyk Sketchblog

maryhaasdyk.com Mary Haasdyk is a Calgary based illustrator. She studied at Alberta College of Art + Design, and enjoys drawing and painting both traditionally and digitally, as well as visiting the zoo and making lists.

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I’m determined to finally update this space and am putting together some process posts from recent projects to share. So don’t give up on this sketchblog (I say to myself mostly!!).

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I decided to take on the Inkotober challenge this year, and did a tiny portrait each day. Here’s a collection of the little heads. They are mostly done in ball point pen and each a couple inches tall. It was a fun project and got me into my sketch book most mornings.

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A little sketch of children: the pencil drawing in my sketchbook and the colour version taken into photoshop. 

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Portrait study. I’m trying to work on my digital rendering skills a bit. 

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It’s wonderful biking weather in yyc these days!

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Details of a coming utility box with a watermelon vibe to the colour scheme :-) 

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Had the opportunity to do some utility box designs for the City of Calgary last month. I’ve never had any of my drawings become so big before. It was a fun project with new things to learn! 

They are located along 36th St by Marlborough Mall. 

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I’ve been doing a Sunday Sketch postcard project on Instagram, which involves sending mail to a stranger each week. Follow me @maryhaasdyk to see the new postcard on Sundays, which is an original sketch or little painting. Anyone who leaves a comment on it is in the running to receive mail from me! :-) 

This project keeps me sketching and provides a fun way to share some of them with people. So follow along if this takes your fancy.

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Book illustration done for the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. An interprative portrait of each character set into the landscape; Beauty is the rose, and the Beast is a Yetti-inspired, mythical creature.

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A little bit of process from a recent project. Trying to work out colours for an illustration for The Secret Garden.

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portrait project

Here’s some process from a portrait I did over the summer as a wedding gift. I experimented with layering a drawing over a painting.

The process quickly turned into an exercise in colour. Here are some variations - all over the board with these colours..

Here’s the final product.

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Looking in. Little people standing outside the window. Detail of a recent project.

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Bo Peep - Process shot of a Book Cover design. It’s a pulp fiction mystery inspired by the nursery rhyme of Little Bo Peep. Here’s a link to the project: www.behance.net/gallery/24642185/Book-Cover-The-Case-of-the-Vanishing-Lambs

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Drawing more sheep. Environment in process.

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Panel 1 of a 4 part series of environments based on Robert Service's poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee

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