internship, workshops, and housewarmings oh my

I didn’t do any of the homework that I planned on doing this weekend, but I got a bit of drawing in.  Success?  Anyways.  Here’s the weekend sketch duh-dump

THURSDAY & FRIDAY

September 24-25, 2009

TIME: LUNCH
LOCATION: TITMOUSE INC. (Internship)

SYNOPSIS:

For those that follow the blog, I usually spend my lunchbreak scribbling in my sketchbook.  I sit in front of a screen all day and just felt the need to draw on paper whenever I get the chance.  Sometimes I do creative drawing, but for the most part: I sketch whoever happens to be sitting at the table eating their lunch.

So if some of the faces look familiar from previous posts: it’s the same person that you think it is.  Whether or not I did a good job capturing them on paper: i dunno.

SATURDAY

September 26, 2009

TIME: 930PM-3AM?
LOCATION: COSTA MESA, CA (Will Ha’s Housewarming Party)

SYNOPSIS:

This weekend I was in the Irvine area because of a The Concept Design Academy’s 2 day summer workshop at the Laguna College of Art and Design.  It was a workshop that I couldn’t miss: so many talented artists doing lectures/demo as well as the talented artists that were there to learn.  It was an all day workshop, that lasted from 10am-5pm all weekend.  So I was dead tired and planned on staying in that night.

Unfortunately, it was also my college roomate’s housewarming party the next city over.  So I’m lying in bed and got a text asking if I was still going.  Long story short: I crawl out of bed and drive over to Costa Mesa to see people I haven’t seen in a few years.

I brought along my sketchbook because: (A.) I’m a natural wallflower (B.) Thought it would be a good opportunity to draw people. (C.) I carry it around with me all the time.  1 beer turned into 6 or 7, and here are the results.

SUNDAY

September 27, 2009

TIME: 10AM-5PM
LOCATION: LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (2 Day Concept Design Academy Workshop)

SYNOPSIS:

Dead tired at the start of the workshop because of the lack of sleep I got the night before.  Good thing that the lecturers were great speakers.  Got to meet some of the students that go Laguna College of Art and Design and felt like they have a good community of artists in that school.  Anyways, got a mix of creative and people sketching done during Sunday’s workshop.  I think that helped me get through the day since I wasn’t the most energetic person that morning.

*NOTE: The left page of the first spread  is overlap from Saturday Night.

Drawing Club: The Grim Reaper

Just got back from the Drawing Club.   I decided to try out some stuff with graphite, sanguine, a drawing stump since I’ve been seeing Glenn Vilppu do demonstrations with it in his figure drawing class for the past 2 weeks.  I’m still trying to figure the technique out as a I go but I think I did an admirable job.

Peggy Moore came in dressed as the Grim Reaper tonight and it was fun drawing her because she got into character.  The only drawback to the night was that it was really stuffy in the room.  And if you know me, I sweat like crazy and had to be weary of which paper towel I used to wipe my head and which one I used to smear the graphite.

Anyways, I labeled the pages this time (only because I wanted to try out this photoshop brush I made of my signature).  So let me know what you guys think.  Cheers

Vilppu Figure Drawing Class 02

5 hour figure drawing class with Glenn Vilppu Take 2.  3-25 min poses.

Still learning how to draw, so this is gonna take a while before I post something good.  Was an interesting day at Glenn Vilppu’s class on Tuesday: a model with expressive poses and me completely tanking on that session.  Haha.  That’s how the learning process works, you can’t be good when you want to be.  Just a very inconsistent drawing session.  However, I did take some lessons from it.

As awesome as ebony pencils are, I learned that they’re the worst thing I can use for figure drawing.  I’m naturally heavy handed when I draw, so until I get better control in my line, the ebony pencil will be riding the bench.  Glenn did a demo on using graphite, sanguine pencil and a drawing stump: note quite what I’m used to seeing from his videos but it’s cool nonetheless.  It’s an interesting process and some of the stuff I drew following that process turned out fairly ok.

I’m still not grasping the idea of flowing from one form to the next, but maybe I will after a few weeks.

sketch duh-dump

For those who wonder how much drawing I actually do, sketch duh-dump! Sorry, I just started reading Scott Pilgrim this week and yeah it’s a pretty darn good read. Back to more pressing matters: I draw in my sketchbook(s) whenever I find time in between school, my internship, drawing workshops, and sleep.

For the most part, drawing keeps me company when I eat alone and such. And if you follow this blog and the sketch duh-dumps, then you’ll notice that there are quite a few people that make guest appearances in this thing: they’re eating their lunch too and fall victim to my poor artist’s rendition of them.

Keeping a sketchbook is a constant reminder of what I need to work on.  There are far too many to list, but it also allows me to try different things to keep growing as an artist.  I’ve been watching Jason Seiler’s dvd recently and got some advice in that I should also have a sketchbook that I just keep for myself.  I’m pretty shameless about the showing my sketches and whatnot, but I think it’ll be a good idea to keep a book around just for me.  It’ll be a secret mission of sorts.

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THURSDAY – Lunchbreak Sketching

FRIDAY- Even More Luncbhreak Sketching

SATURDAY – Attempts at Caricature

TUESDAY – Lunchbreak Sketching and Attempts at Exploration

Painting from Photos

Was compelled to paint something more realistic since I didn’t do so at the 3 hour long pose workshop at the Drawing Club today.  So I visited Hong Ly’s characterdesigns.com to get a photo that I wanted to do a digital painting of.  For those unfamiliar with Characterdesigns.com, it’s a great photo reference library of character poses that character & creature designer Hong Ly has put together free of charge.  Super awesome, so check definitely check it out!

Spent about 90 minutes on this and I’m kinda satisfied with the results.  Definite structure issues, but it’s all part of the learning process.  Anyways, it’s a nice way to end the night.

So 17/1000 paintings in the bag.   I’m gonna get to 1000, eventually.  And hopefully I’ll know what I’m doing by the end of it.

Hard work?

Goodnite!