Gesture Drawings: Fairy

The normal person sleeps in on a Sunday morning.  I’m far from normal, so my Sunday mornings are spent in my gesture drawing class.  I swear I’ll never ever get the hang of a Sunday morning class but I’ll sure as hell try.

In an attempt to get more information down within the quick poses, I’m making an effort to draw in sharpie.  I’ve been told it’s like drawing with a baseball bat because it’s clumsy so it’s a perfect fit since I’m a klutz.  The line comes out bold so there is no room to noodle around the drawing and it also forces you to make decisions in your mark making.  So as a result, it should improve line efficiency.  Whether or not I’ve accomplished any of that, it’s debatable.  However, the only sure answer is that a lot of drawing was done today (there was a whole lot more, but they were far too rough/junky to post).  Cheers.

2-5 minute poses.

Drawing Club: Bride of Frankenstein

So last night’s Drawing Club featured Malo as the Bride of Frankenstein.  It wasn’t the most successful session of drawing but some drawings turned out pretty decent.  Decided to draw with sharpie that night but it got messy as I was constructing and also the fact that I have a messy line in general.

So I copped out and ended up roughing in the gesture lines in ballpoint and just going over it in sharpie.  Yeah, I know: big cheater!  It was a hard draw session because she had a loose fitting dress and Malo does a lot of twisting in her poses.  Definitely got a lot of poses in here to rework in my sketchbook project.

Poses ranged from 5-15min.  Cheers

Gesture Drawings: Baseball

Here’s some gesture drawings that I did in Mark McDonnell’s class at LAAFA last Sunday.  It’s my second time around taking the class and there’s still so much to learn.

I didn’t realize how much drawing I actually did in that class until I started archiving my drawings  onto my computer.  It’s a sketchbook project of mine to rework all the bad drawings I did in the class.

Hopefully the sketchbook project helps me improve my gesture drawing as well as my overall sense of design.  Anyways, the drawings consist of 3-5 minute poses.  Cheers

Drawing Club: Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Some drawings from last week’s Drawing Club workshop. Mark Wentzel came in as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.  It was hard to get a decent drawing within some of the 5 min poses because of the amount of clothing the model was wearing and I haven’t figured out a shorthand way of drawing it.

I also decided to experiment with using a tombow pen as my drawing tool.  I should be have been bold and tried drawing with the brush tip but maybe next time.  Didn’t get the results I was hoping for, but it’s all for the sake of practice.  Sometimes you get a good drawing and most of the time you don’t.  Anyways, if I get one decent drawing in then it’s a successful session.  Cheers!

Vilppu Figure Drawing Class 05

Haven’t been posting much of late. It’s funny how your internet going down for a few days can totally disrupt the blogging process. Anyways, here’s a drawing I did from Glenn Vilppu’s class last week. I would post the other ones, but the pictures didn’t turn out so well. I’ll post them another time.

But anyways, this is another long pose drawing. It’s interesting and a big struggle at the same time because I’m not used to dedicating so much time to a figure drawing.  I’m trying to be more subtle with my tones, but I dunno.  So enjoy?