I'm on a boat!

My sister bought me some markers for Christmas.
Another DEK weekend.
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Happy Thanksgiving!

This is an inside joke. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Fall 2009 Traditional Portfolio

Hi anyone,

I wanted to post the fruits of my personal labor over the last few weeks. This is my traditional portfolio as it stands now. I realize where it's at, and I wish I could do more. Though honestly, given my schedule, I'm almost proud of myself. ...almost.

Running out of titles

So here are last week's drawing class results. I finally got a few hours of time to myself. In between battling the LAPD, I like to post drawings. The instructor worked with me on this first one, and I added the gist of his notes with my tablet here. Pretty good stuff. All of these are between three and five minute sketches, with a batch of quick one-sies at the end, which I switched to a drafting pencil for. No particular reason. One thing I am getting bored with is the posing. I feel like there are only so many poses the models tend to go with. I'd like to see some creative acting, but... they're already up there naked as the day they were born, so I can't complain too much.



By connecting the neck to the head, he means to draw through the form. In this case there was hair hanging over her neck, so I didn't bother to draw it. This is good cartooning advice, as well. You have to visualize as 3D shapes in 2D space, otherwise you end up ignorant to what the form is actually doing and you'll be unable to convincingly move it. And it's not about making a pretty drawing, it's about understanding what is happening and representing that on paper. That is one piece of advice I find consistent through life-drawing instructors.

Life Drawing

Life drawing has been going relatively consistently lately, so I'll be happy to keep posting what I've got. This should go strong for the next six weeks at work, so let's hope I make some improvement. Maybe I'll compare the start and the finish when it's all over. Here are two five minute poses.






This one was a one minute gesture. Obviously not fantastic but I thought it was the most successful short pose that I did. Hopefully I can encourage the instructor to do some ten to twenty minute poses in the following weeks. I'd really like to take the time to check proportions and get some finer detail in these.



Thanks!

Life Drawing

So here's two more of the less revolting poses from life drawing last Wednesday. Five minute poses again.

Lunch Life Drawing

I'm back at it again. We had a chance to do some life drawing during lunch today so I busted out the old newsprint pad! This time I made some notes of the more frustratingly glaring issues with my drawings. Things I see right away, that I don't understand why I don't see them as I'm actually drawing them. *pulls hair* Not to shy away from the greater problems evident herein. Five minute poses, except for Monster Leg Man.



Somehow I completely failed at taking pictures too. I had a bright light shining on the paper and used a flash but it looks like I took it in a dark alleyway. The last life drawing images came out fine... I don't get it.



To he honest, his head was rather large, but to be fair, it wasn't nearly that large. And I get so caught up in these sweeping lines that I drew his friggin' leg like double the size of the rest of him. I shudder at the thought of him unfolding that leg...



Speaks for itself.



How is that even acceptable?



And the stupid part is I thought I should accentuate the naivete by going over it in charcoal. Somehow his ankle narrows into a ramen noodle?

So that's it! I'll keep this stuff in mind for next time.

Life Drawing

These are some of the better drawings I did in a class at Rhythm the other week. I like parts of some of them, which is better than usual. They are all five minute poses except for the last one, which was ten.





Look at the size of that head... yeesh.








This is just fun!



These hands are embarrassingly naive. I need to spend more time on that...

Run Test

As good a place to start as any