Life Drawing 48

And that's the last of the lot, until next week.

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Life Drawing 43

I think this session was largely a write-off.  Not sure why.  Maybe I'm not used to doing 2 figures, maybe I'm not used to having to use the easel.

Anyway.  More nude people coming your way in the next few posts.

Badlands

Desert scenery. From a photo I took while I was in the Badlands for a painting workshop last year. I think this is the area surrounding the Royal Tyrell Museum near Drumheller.

(If you're at all interested in dinosaurs, btw, and are ever in the area, the Royal Tyrell is totally worth checking out. Convince your parents/friends. Take your kids. Do it.)

Pen & ink, 4.5x6.5".

Illustration Friday - Faded

Emmy-Lou hated having to wear faded hand-me-downs, none of which fit properly.

Johnston Canyon Waterfall

Crow quill & brush. 4.5 x 6.5".

From Johnston Canyon near Banff.  I miss the mountains.  But we have this year's vacation booked and it's gonna be in Waterton (which I've never seen before) so I just have to hold on until then.

Mountains

Pen & ink, 4.5 x 6.5".  Got out the quills again to do a few pieces for Artwalk.

Horse Drawing 8

Last sketch!  It was an interesting experience.  Apparently this is the second session in a set of animal-drawing workshops the comic shop is planning.  The first one was a dog, which I missed.  (I wasn't heartbroken -- there's dogs everywhere.  Horses, not so much.)  Next month they're planning to bring in a cow.  I've also put in a request for llamas and goats.  There's all sorts of interesting creatures out on farms and in parks surrounding Edmonton.

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One of the girls sitting on the back.  This time I turned the sketchbook around the right way.

Horse Drawing 6

Marty with the saddle on.  Having a snack.

Horse Drawing 5

I wandered around the loading dock area to get some different angles.

Horse Drawing 4

This head turned out a bit better.

Saddle

A Western saddle, sitting on the ground.  I don't think I did the best job indicating the form.

Horse Drawing 3

Horses are kinda funny head-on.

Horse Drawing 2

Not the world's best placement on the page.

Horse Drawing 1

I did actually make it out to horse drawing. It was fun!

It was difficult to get Marty (the horse) to stay in one position for long enough, but he was quite mellow and returned to various poses for long enough for me to get some sketching done. The biggest problem was all the people who weren't drawing, who felt a need to entertain themselves and distract Marty pretty much the WHOLE TIME. So irritating.

A Sight - Rough

Chinese Lanterns

 

Chinese lanterns hanging in a garden.

Pencil crayon on Canson Mi-teinte paper, about 4.5x6.5"

No more leafy backgrounds. Never again!

Hawrelak Park

A very small painting I did last weekend at Hawrelak Park:

Garage - WIP

Working on a painting:

Life Drawing 42

And that's it for this week.

Next week: something different. My local comic shop is bringing in a horse for a life drawing session and I'm hoping to attend. Techically I can ride down to the equestrian centre anytime and draw whatever's in the paddock, but hey, you don't often get to see a horse in a comic shop.

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15-minute poses:

 

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Mostly 5-minute poses:

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Gestures:

Life Drawing 36

This week's set of figure drawings.

This session wasn't nearly as good as the last one, alas. Brand new newsprint pad, though! Great to draw on, but still crappy to photograph.

Orc Cook

Everybody else was doing it, so I did one too:

Figure Study

I went to the long pose class today. It was an interesting experience.

I'm pretty pleased, this isn't the worst painting I've ever done. The most frustrating thing was that I spent the first 30 minutes making mistakes, and spent the next 2.5 hours trying to correct them.

The second most frustrating thing was that the background looked better half-finished.

I think I'm going to try to get this one into the art show in early July. 

Acrylic on masonite, about 12x16, I think. 3 hours.

Monster

I read a good book today.

Kiss the Ground

Heights - WIP

Some more work on this:

Memory

Just wanted to sketch a big beefy warrior woman. But since I was listening to "Brothers in Arms" it wasn't going to be cheerful slaughter.

Caricature

I was trying to watch some music videos on Youtube and it kept playing commercials. When I saw this woman's face I knew I had to pause and do a caricature.  She has a face that lends itself wonderfully to silliness.

She's apparently the production designer for Game of Thrones.  Fabulous!

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I think I felt better about this session than some of the others. And I think I'm slowly starting to see the results of regular figure drawing practice in my other drawings. It's been five sessions so far this year (missed one because the model didn't show). I can probably put in another 16 before the year is done. I wonder if I'll show any clear sign of progress by December?

In other news this marked the end of my first giant newsprint pad. I think I'll rip out and re-scan some of the better poses and recycle the rest.

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Life Drawing 31

Tried to do something slightly different and sketch in ink:

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Gestures and short poses from last Wednesday:

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Life Drawing 28

Apparently I forgot to photograph this pose from the last life drawing session:

Industrial Building WIP

Got out to do some painting this afternoon. Spent a couple hours out in the light of the evil daystar.

I thought the industrial park would be dead quiet on a Sunday, but apparently I picked the ONE parking lot in the area where people were actually doing stuff. So the whole time I was there cars were arriving in the parking lot about 10 minutes apart, some guy's truck had a bunch of heavy metal music going and people were going "fuck!" in the background.

Neil figures there was an impromptu metal concert in the making.

 So far I rather like how the tree is coming out. I'm trying to use more neutral colours to have it look less cartoony.

Working on a thing:

Even More Gestures

I was going to do 50 of these but I went to figure drawing on Wednesday (and a figure actually showed) so I think I'm done for now.

More gestures.