#Iammatthewian

[nakamopapina]

Still working on the animation, doing it one character at a time.

I like how I drew Vicky, so I wanted to share.

[acetechne]

and what is a maritime vacation without a doodling sesh with @rhinocio and co? (even if much of my Top Secret Work was concealed in my lap most of the time)

if i had ONE takeaway from these past couple weeks - you know, other than how privileged and special it is and I am to be a part of my friends' lives!! - it's Don't Touch The Black Rocks at Peggy's Cove They Will Kill You Dead to Death (if the locals don't get you first).

[canadianconstellations]

i think b.c. might be better at ordering out

character photo credits go to ctcsherry!

[whimsicaldimples]

Happy Halloween! (its been a hot minute)

[project-canada]

That's right, the original tribute to Canada 150, Dominion Day, is -finally- back up on YouTube in the ProCan archive channel!

Thanks so much for your patience, I had a lot going on with grad school and moving and retrieving the files and sitting down to put subtitles back on (they may not be synced properly when this posts, but I will go back and fix them as needed when I am able). Enjoy!

-Admin Hapo (@allbeendonebefore )

[imgonnakmsinaweek]

ollie...

ollie

[surfingthesealand]

So since communities are a thing on Tumblr now...

I just had to create a @project-canada community!

I haven't really assigned a banner or icon for it yet, and it doesn't look like I can change them right now, but you know where it is!

[cupidcaity]

Oliver watching the Leafs game rn

My first time drawing a chibi

[battle-of-alberta]

Battle of Alberta Timeline pt. 1: 17th-19th Centuries

[ Alberta Story ] [ part 1 ] [ part 2 soon ]

Phew.

This was an ambitious little project for such a short time period.

I don't have much to say about it other than that, it is just supposed to be a crash course in the broad strokes of what Alberta considers to be its history. It glosses over a lot and is mostly about the foundations and incorporations of the characters (i.e. the municipalities that I have personified thus far) and a few contextual clues to the worlds they grew up in. It's basically a big cheat sheet for me since I'm both a stickler for consistency and also very inconsistent... Of course, each character could easily have their own personalized timeline on top of this, so I tried to leave room for that possibility.

(missing is St. Albert, who would be featured at 1861 if I ever intended to draw him)

And, of course, it's supposed to provoke your curiosity a little since it is of course an ask blog, I can't just explain everything down here much as I would like to :)

Enjoy!

[tunnels-by-the-river]

So, to finally post something for Indigenous history month, I made a Cutesy comic with Nanook and Owen.

So the name that the province of Saskatchewan goes by, is a shortened and modernized version of the original word of the Saskatchewan River, Kisiskatchewanisipi, which is Cree for ‘Swift-flowing river’.

Which was what most people called the river.

It is unknown (at least to modern peoples) as to the reason why Government did this when the District was formed in 1882.

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Unfortunately not much is known for the origins of the names of the Provinces, and Territories. Some have more info than others.

[nakamopapina]

I drew from a screenshot from one of Justbins’ instagram stories from Thursday.

I couldn’t resist because it involved a goose.

(I headcanon that Sask uses both ‘Owen’ and ‘Gabriel’ as his legal names, one as his first name, the other his middle name)

I gave up with Ollie’s possible instagram profile :T

The original screenshot/picture below:

[acetechne]

in true canadian fashion: sorry i'm late

although, in some ways, i'm actually early. You know what I realized doing this ambitious painting? this year is going to be the 15th anniversary of IAMP.

The call for auditions was uploaded September 22, 2009, and if I recall correctly my audition as artist and VA was accepted around October or November of that same year. I've grown a lot as an artist and as a person in that long time and for some weird reason I just can't let these guys go.

anyway, thanks for everyone who participated in the roulette, I know it doesn't seem like a big deal but I really struggle drawing all of these guys without losing steam. it really helped! especially since I don't do a lot of gouache work and I second guessed myself a lot. It warms my heart a little to see you guys engaged in this silly game.

what else is there to say. oh yeah, I put two types of maple leafs. the stereotypical sugar maple is in the upper right of course, but I also put a manitoba maple in the lower left because that's the kind of maple I'm most familar with where I'm from. it's long been my mission to bring the western rep in whatever I do, so it's kind of my love letter signature to my own constantly changing understanding of Who Am I and Where Am I From.

anyway. enjoy :) i enjoyed making it. thanks to ctcsherry for creating these guys

[canadianconstellations]

was this frantically done? yes, somewhat

character photo credits go to ctcsherry!

[allbeendonebefore]

You felt the old bridge weigh us down / let's try to turn our love around / and take the dethbridge out of town

Hello from Lethbridge, thank you and good night! I don't know that we will have WiFi in Dinosaur Park so you may have to wait a while for trip updates.

[iamp-nova-scotia-appreciation]

Happy Easter! 🥚🐣🐰🐇

[imgonnakmsinaweek]

ugh i hate tumbler smh