For those that have been following the blog, some friends and I meet up on friday nights for our weekly sketchgroup meetings. We usually hit up coffee shops and draw for the sake of drawing. Either we do our own creative drawing or sketch the people we see on our outings.
But anyways, a few of us joined together and started another sketchblog called the Toaster Doodle. Someone comes up with a theme/project that we all participate in. We don’t approach it as an assignment or schoolwork because the purpose of the blog is to have fun and grow as better artists in the process. So we just completed our first project called the Luchador Experiment. So my luchador is called Buffalo Tex.
Click here iff you wanna check out my process for the character.
Buffalo Tex Process
And click here to check out the badass work from the rest of the Toaster Doodle members.
toasterdoodle.blogspot.com
Here’s a compilation of drawings from Mark McDonnell’s Clothed Gesture Quick Sketch Class from this past Sunday. These were the more successful drawings from the day. However, there are far more drawings that got me a good scolding. I’m still having trouble trying to capture the initial gesture without getting too scribbly and inefficient with my line quality. And as a result, I probably overthink it and draw without feeling the overall rhythm. Hopefully, I’ll find a happy medium and get some consistency in my drawings as opposed to making marks and hoping something cool with happen. But anyways, the class is fun and worth it. So sign up for Mark’s summer session of the class at LAAFA.
These drawings consist of 5 minute poses.
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Mark McDonnell
Clothed Gesture Quick Sketch @ LAAFA
In an attempt to improve my character design skills, I’ve been doing more people sketches. It’s something that has been begging for attention as I’ve been told during portfolio reviews that my human characters are rather generic looking and less interesting than my animals or quirky looking creatures. The sad thing is that I’ve been drawing human characters a lot longer than animals and creatures. I think it’s because I’ve been defaulting to what’s in my head as opposed to looking at photo reference of different types of people. So to build up that visual vocabulary, I’ve been making more of an effort to design characters from life. Anyways, here’s my sketches from this weekend.
Friday
These sketches were done in downtown Burbank as I met up with some folks from my sketchgroup. Been trying to get away from sketching with a pencil, so these sketches were done in ballpoint pen and sharpie. I find it odd that I have more line efficiency with a sharpie than I do with a ballpoint pen. How that happens, I have no idea.
Saturday
The irony of these sketches were that they were done at the zoo. Tried drawing the lions, tigers, and bears, oh my. However, they just didn’t wanna cooperate and would just lay there the whole time. So I thought I would use the opportunity to sketch the people there.
Sunday
Done in my environment design class at the Concept Design Academy. I don’t really know the people in the class that well, so I had no qualms about drawing them. Some of the sketches where drawn in the dark during the teacher demo, so I kinda fudged on the features. Bad for my eyes, but a nice little challenge as I’m forced to simplify since there are no features to really noodle over.
It’s all a bunch of hit and miss with these sketches. My teachers say that it’s all about mileage when it comes to art so I’m pretty much filling up the tank for some long ass road trips. Luckily there aren’t any police officers to hand out speeding tickets in that regard. So let me know what you guys think. Cheers.
So last night I was out in downtown Burbank with some members of my sketchgroup and we pretty much spent the time hopping from place to place drawing. For me, it’s hard as hell to do any drawing at home because I get easily sidetracked by the internet and television. So I find these outings to be very beneficial to my artistic growth since I am actually spending time drawing.
Anyways, these drawings were done as I was at the movie theater waiting for everyone to show up. People sketching has been something I’ve been trying to improve on as of late. It’s a whole lot harder than it sounds and is a bit of a learning process. It’s forcing me to design on the fly and is really building up my shape vocabulary because of all the different people I’ve been drawing. If any of you guys have some tips for people sketching, please share. Until then, cheers.
Yesterday the gesture drawing model came in as a colonial captain. For anyone interested in being a character design or just getting into animation period, you definitely have to take a gesture drawing class. If not, you risk the chance of your drawings/designs of becoming lifeless and stiff. They no longer become characters and are more or less mannequins.
Anyways, the clothed gesture quick sketch class with Mark McDonnell at LAAFA is the same class that Mark teaches for Disney Television Animation. So yeah, Mark knows his stuff. The class so far has been a real learning experience. Most of the time, my drawings have been more miss than hit but I’m seeing improvement as the weeks progress. Well worth the growing pains. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, I highly recommend taking Mark’s class.
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Mark McDonnell
Clothed Gesture Quick Sketch @ LAAFA
sketch group | Carl | 
June 26, 2009 7:46 pm | 
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