Sketches from travels and passion projects outside of service & product design.

Part-passion project, part-hobby-illustration, we’re here to provide a select choice of figure skating’s finest performances to help educate and engage viewers in the sport.

Find us on instagram at sk8expectations.
(2021)

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WARHORSE: “Phantom of the Opera” (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Yuzuru Hanyu 🇯🇵 - 2014-15 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, Free Skate - Choreographed by David Wilson - It would be a shame to not sing the praises of Yuzu’s monume
WARHORSE: “Phantom of the Opera” (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Akiko Suzuki 🇯🇵 - 2013-14 Japan Figure Skating Championships, Free Skate - Choreographed by Pasquale Camerlengo - Suzuki has an innate ability to become one with music. Even in m
WARHORSE: “Clair de Lune” (Claude Debussy) - HONOURABLE MENTION: Zijun Li 🇨🇳 - 2016 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, Short Program - Choreographed by Lori Nichol - Completing the trifecta of magical "Clair de Lune" prog
WARHORSE: “Clair de Lune” (Claude Debussy) - Rika Kihira 🇯🇵 - 2019 ISU World Team Trophy, Short Program - Choreographed by David Wilson - Rika’s senior debut with this amazing SP was such a genius move - she completely embodies t
WARHORSE: “Clair de Lune” (Claude Debussy) - Mao Asada (JPN) - 2009 ISU World Team Trophy, Short Program - Choreographed by Lori Nichol - This is another in a series of love letters to Mao Asada on our feed. Her “Clair de Lune&rdquo
WARHORSE: “The Firebird” (Igor Stravinsky) - HONOURABLE MENTION: Evan Lysacek (USA) - 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Short Program - Choreographed by Lori Nichol - Impeccably well-trained and unflappable amidst a media circus, Lysacek was qu
WARHORSE: “The Firebird” (Igor Stravinsky) - Joannie Rochette (CAN) - 2005 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships, Free Skate - Choreographed by David Wilson - Joannie skated her Firebird warhorse program fearlessly. She is both
WARHORSE: “The Firebird” (Igor Stravinsky) - Tatsuki Machida (JPN) - 2014 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, Free Skate - Choreographed by Philip Mills - Controversial opinion - I think Tatsuki Machida should’ve won Worlds in
WARHORSE: “Somewhere in Time - OST” (John Barry) - Eun-soo Lim (KOR) - 2019 World Figure Skating Championships, Short Program - Choreographed by Jeffrey Buttle - This program was the perfect way for Lim to announce her arrival in the seni
WARHORSE: “Somewhere in Time - OST” (John Barry) - Cheng Peng / Yang Jin (CHN) - 2021 Chinese National Team Competition, Short Program - Choreographed by Marie-France Dubreuil - Peng & Jin are simply ethereal here — they just fl
WARHORSE: “Moulin Rouge! - OST” - Ashley Wagner (USA) - 2016 ISU World Figure Skating Championships, Free Skate - Choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne - With her signature charisma and panache, Wagner brought the character of Satine to the i
WARHORSE: “Moulin Rouge! - OST” - Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN) - 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Free Dance - Choreographed by Marie-France Dubreuil, David Wilson, and Samuel Chouinard - Virtue & Moir’s Moulin Rouge free dance w
 

Shadowing orthopaedic surgeons at the Sunnybrook Hospital (Toronto, BC) and Vancouver General Hospital (Vancouver, BC). Quick sketches from the OR (2014, 2015)

 

Travel sketches from London & Paris (2016)

 

Miscellaneous line & colour studies (2012–15)