Gestures

Some gesture drawings from Quickposes:

Colour Study

Bunny Sketches

Drawing hares in action ain't easy.

I'm glad I got the chance to do at least some gesture sketches of its awkward washing process.

French Breakfast Radishes

I grew this bunch of radishes last summer.

I think this pic turned out terrifically well, although pencil crayons hardly ever scan well. :P

Sketchbook Page

Animals in Containers

I don't know where I was going with this.

Sketchbook Page

Doodling before bed...

Sketches

A couple quick ink sketches from life.

Fire Fan

Oils

My first try at oil painting:

I'm using no solvents because I have to paint indoors.

Ink Sketch

Done from life directly in ink, using a PITT pen and technical pen for the hatching. I'm trying to improve the quality of my lines.

Warbler

Another little pencil crayon piece.

Easter Bunny

Well... not really. I sketched this down & out hare for a complaint thread on CA. Never got around to posting it.

General Bunissimus

Had a sudden hankering to do some pencil crayon art.

I used a reference photo I took in my backyard. I dubbed him General Bunissimus because he is a hare with gravitas.

The Joust - Rough

This has been in my head for a while. Two knights riding marshmallow steeds, facing off in the clouds.

Chili Rough

Robot Camp Rough

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10 minute sketches:

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5 minute poses:

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One minute poses:

Lagomorphosis Logo

I was designing a business card earlier this week.

Lagomorphosis now has a logo!

Exhibit Sketches

U of A Museums had a winter-themed exhibition full of interesting stuff, some of which I managed to sketch. Some Inuit clothing and a stuffed downy woodpecker:

Lecture Audience

I sketched some people while attending a lecture a couple weeks back:

Abstract Compositions

Rockband Drummer

Neil trying out Rockband 3 at a party in February:

Sandman

Buttering Ram

Pub Sketches

Some people waiting for a table:

Pub Sketches

Girls at the Sugarbowl:

Pub Sketches

Technically not from the pub. I sketched these at the food court where I was killing some time before meeting up with Neil and heading to Friday Pub Night:

Sketches

I'm trying to make it a habit to go up to bed a half hour early and sketch in bed while warming up the covers. Then I can sleep without footwarmers and I get to exercise my sketching muscles like I used to in staff meetings.

Still Life

Trying to do more sketching to keep my pencil skills from completely withering away. My coffee table:

Sketches

Sketching: it's good for what ails you.

Colour Study

Bounce - Lagomorphosis

This became a splash image for my dA portfolio:

Barcelona Sketches - Pruning

Another sketch from my Barcelona journal:

I was sitting near the forum, watching this little landscaping truck creep along and two men ruthlessly prune these little trees. I assume that it being Spain, if you don't leave them looking like sticks you end up with a jungle in two weeks.

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Life drawing from last week:

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Life drawing from last week:

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Last week's life drawing:

As an aside, I don't go to life drawing very often. In fact it's usually been much like people's New Year's resolution gym visits. You go twice in January and then don't show up for the next 11 months. But I recognized this pair of models from the first life drawing session I ever went to some years ago. I even posted the sketches to this very blog way back in 2007. I'm sure I'll see a lot more of the same models now that I'm going more regularly, but it's kinda nice to have this unexpected continuity five years later.

In other news, for someone who draws or paints every day I am seriously out of practice with the pencils. I never did much large-scale drawing on the newsprint and all but I feel like I ought to be able to move the dang pencil around with a little more control than this!

I guess I'll have to slot in an after-lunch sketching session a few days a week.

The Band - Rough

Looking at the places I want to send portfolios to, it occurs to me that I have too many fantasy images. A lot of children's magazines and books have to do with school, history, science or travel, not wizards or werewolves...

Bounce WIP

I'm working on a front page for my porkfolio:

Wink

A preliminary painted sketch for a pet portrait commission:

Scheherezade

An older Scheherezade holds her grandchildren spellbound with her tales:

Finally finished this one up!

University Sheep

My usual commuting route took me through the University experimental farm every day, and if I rode through at just the right time the sheep would be out and about.

The farm is slowly being developed so I guess I'll have to get my daily sheep fix elsewhere.

This painting started out as a total failure at palette knife technique, but I managed to fix it up a bit with my trusty bristle filbert.