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.

Life Drawing 41

Life Drawing 40

Life Drawing 39

15-minute poses:

 

Life Drawing 38

Mostly 5-minute poses:

Life Drawing 37

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!