Lunchtime Paint – 091809 – 20min

not every lunchpaint garners the results i want.  I still feel like I need to push the design more.  20 min.  suggestions are definitely welcomed on this one

The Drawing Club: Cowboy Judge

Just got back from tonight’s Drawing Club Workshop.  Jonnathan Cripple came in as a Cowboy Judge.  He really gets into character with his poses, so it was great to draw.  The downside though was that I tried out some new mediums.

I recently purchased a Conte Pierre Noire pencil and wanted to use it for tonight’s session.  The only thing is that I never really use an x-acto blade for sharpening pencils.  As a result, I kept fumbling the process and just ended up using an ebony pencil towards the end.

Thought it would be fun to attempt some tonal work in the drawings.  Not sure if I was successful at it, but at least I tried something different.

And yes, these are the drawings that I liked.  There are still quite a few that I totally goofed on.  Joys of progression.  Cheers

20 minute lunch paint

I’m beginning to think that this experiment is a good idea.  20 minute lunchpaint at my internship

Vilppu Figure Drawing Class 01

I have really neglected my figure drawing for quite some time now. The last class I really went to was in the beginning of the year. Anyways, I figured it was something I needed to do to grow more as an artist. So what better way to jump back in than 5 hour figure drawing classes with Glenn Vilppu?

Funny thing though, is that I came with newsprint and bought charcoal for the class. I never use the stuff so I thought it would be a good idea. Um, totally wrong for the class! Anyways, I guess I’ll use the newsprint and charcoal for workshops.

So far the class seems like it’ll be good.  5 hours of figure drawing seems like a long time, but it didn’t.  I ended up going to a starbucks afterwards and drew for another 2 hours.  See the previous post.  Anyways, I felt like I needed the drawing bootcamp because I”m so rusty at figure drawing.  The cool part about the class was that Glenn went around to each student and did a personal demo talking about his approach to figure drawing.

A good chunk of the class was devoted to 3 minute poses, and I think the last hour and a half comprised of 5 and 10 minute poses.  And if you were wondering: yes, there are even more drawings that I did during the class session.  These ones were the most tolerable.

Glenn Vilppu’s class, the drawing club, and Mark McDonnell’s class starting in October: I think i might be a step closer to becoming a fairly decent artist.  Will find out come winter.  Until next post, cheers!

Sketchdump

I’ve been doing so much work in photoshop as of late, I thought it was time to change it up a bit and experiment with trying to do some tonal work in pencil. I recently bought a conte carbon pencil to use for life drawing, but I wanted to do a dry run of the medium. After seeing Dave Colman do a tonal demo in his character design class, I thought it would be something worth trying out for myself. I didn’t use the same tools as Dave did, but I kept the essence of the demo in mind. Whether or not I was successful in it, who knows? The only thing for sure was that I had some fun trying it out.

Although I’ve been doing speedpaints during my lunchbreaks at my internship, I grab my sketchbook and draw whoever is in sight while I’m eating my lunch.

I’m not sure how successful these sketches are because I just sketched for the sake of clearing my mind. Sat down at a Starbucks and just drew as I collected my thoughts. More of a therapeutic drawing session.