Life Drawing

Last pose of the evening.  45 minutes, graphite.  I tried to work on my accuracy and drawing skills.  Some days it feels like I just can't draw at all.  Other days it feels like I can't draw because the model keeps moving. :/

Life Drawing

The weather sucks so it must be time to go back to figure drawing.  I thought I'd do some different things this time around.  I did all the gestures in ink or ink and marker.  Like all new things, most sucked and were not worth posting.  This turned out not too badly.

Journal Sketches - Airport

A man at one of the airports we went through on the way home.  I was experimenting with something here and I'm not sure it worked.

Journal Sketches - Cafe Plume

It was a chilly morning in Montreal and we rode our rented bikes to Cafe Plume for coffee.  It was busy and we didn't stay there long, just long enough to inhale a couple of lattes and for me to sketch this guy.  I liked how he was framed by the window and the plant.

Sketchcrawl - Mango Peelers

The last sketch from the Heritage Festival.  I believe this was behind the Guatemala Pavilion, which always has Mangos Locos -- mangos on a stick rolled in chili and lime.  This is one of the more popular items at the festival, and they have piles and piles and piles of mango boxes in the back and obviously a dedicated (if small) cadre of mango preppers.

Bear Warrior

Swordsman

Playing around with more dynamic poses!  Fun fun fun.

Hair Vamp

I've been preparing for the local art fair and haven't really had the time to scan or photograph stuff for the past week or so.  Art is being accomplished though.  I'm going to try to use up some of my extra evening time to scan some sketches.

Can't remember if I posted a previous version of this, but I did the initial sketch back around May or April or something.  Today I was playing around with shape & shading a bit more.

Warmup - Ace of Spades

Apparently the series of animals is over for now.

I think this one turned out pretty well, even considering the stupid cropping and tangents.  An odd composition but maybe it works with this guy.

The Blender

A little silent comic, to put in my porkfolio.  To show that I can, in fact, draw the same person twice.

Rogue WIP

Working on a thoroughly disreputable rogue portrait, just for fun.  It seems like half the stuff I'm working on is not done and the other half is stuff I can't show off yet.

Life Drawing

More like 20 minutes, since I had to move and then had one false start.  I think I rely on knowing facial structure from certain angles too much.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

I really had a hard time at this session overall but I think that the face turned out pretty well in this one.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

This week's life drawing session.

Life Drawing

We were listening to showtunes during the last half of the session, and sometime in the middle of this longer pose the song "Let Me Entertain You" came on.  Both the model and I started grinning at the situation.  The song is one of the main themes running through the musical "Gypsy", which is based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous burlesque star.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing