Drawing Club: Vampirella

So tonight’s Drawing Club is keeping with the October Halloween theme as Sara Streeter posed in a Vampirella inspired costume.  It was my first time drawing Sara.  I’ve seen her on my friend, Sherwin’s blog a lot and hear nothing but good things about her from my other friends.  She’s a very fun model to draw as she gets into character and has very graceful lines to her

If you followed my blog this week, you’ll understand the sole purpose of experimenting with inkwashes on Tuesday: I totally did not want to botch this Drawing Club session.  If I can’t draw pretty girls properly, what’s the point?

Anyways, it was a smart move on my part to experiment with inkwash beforehand.  I kinda got an idea of what not to do from my experiences on Tuesday.  It gave me less to worry about and focus in on the drawing.  I like to think some of my drawings turned out pretty cool.  So let me know if you think so too.  Cheers!

chiustream – big and graceful

Watched tonight’s Chiustream with guest Peter De Seve.  It’s always inspirational to was Bobby Chiu’s webcasts as he shares his own experiences and insight into how to be a successful artist.  Peter De Seve was the special guest and it was a treat to watch him talk about his experiences and how he talks about how the art has to be an extension of yourself for it to work.

Anyways, Peter De Seve picked tonight’s topic to paint/design: something big yet graceful.  My take on the idea is a diver.  After looking at it more, I really should have pushed the shape to something morbidly obese as well as fixing the structure.  Ah well, live and learn.  Anyways, let me know what you guys think.  Cheers!

Vilppu Figure Drawing Class 04

So this Tuesday’s class with Glenn Vilppu was long poses with it culminating with a 2 hour pose.  For those that know me, I’m fidgety as all hell and have a short attention span: so it was a rough drawing session.  During the 2 hour pose, Glenn was broke down his approach for drawing in graphite, sanguine colored pencil and a drawing stump.

It’s something that I haven’t seen in his videos or drawing manual so it’s always interesting to see him do demonstrations on it.  Apparently, it’s something he picked up from studying Rubens drawings in Denmark over the summer: I guess nobody is too old to learn new tricks, even master draftsmen.

I was sitting right next to him during the 2 hour pose and it was really intimidating to draw with him right next to you.  I would peak at him drawing and look at my own and just cringe a little.  Haha.  Joys of learning.

Inkwashes

I bought an el cheapo fountain pen from Aaron Bros yesterday and wanted to try it out with a bit of people sketching.  I also had my waterbrush with me and thought it would be a good idea to do some inkwashes with it.  I saw Glenn Vilppu use a waterbrush in a one-on-one demo in his figure drawing class and liked the effect it gave his drawing.

After I played with the technique for a while, I wanted to see what effect the waterbrush would have on lines made with a tombow brush pen.  It’s interesting to see how water effects the different inks from each medium and some of the results were cool and some weren’t.  Anyways, let me know what you guys think.  Cheers!

Animal Drawring at the Zoo

Just got back from the last day of David Colman’s Weekend Animal Drawing Workshop.  Today was the more difficult portion of the workshop as we drew the animals at the zoo.  It’s been a long while since I’ve drawn at the zoo and it shows.  Something I definitely need to do more of nonetheless.  Luckily, I have my saturdays to work on that at the zoo and the tar-pits.

For those of you that weren’t able to attend the workshop, good news for you: David recorded his demos and will upload them on the internet.  That’s only a small part of the workshop, the one on one critiques from David are more beneficial than a demo because it’s personally tailored to your current artistic ability.  I was fortunate enough to take his Animal Character Design class and those personal crits helped my drawing improve a great deal.

It’s still a learning process and this weekend just gave me more motivation to focus in on my animal drawing.  Maybe I’ll see you guys at the zoo or the tar-pits on a saturday.

Cheers!

Link Em

David Colman

Digging through old sketchbooks

Decided to post up my first drawings from when I took David’s Animal Character Design Class over a year ago.  It almost seems like I kinda know what I’m doing now.  haha.

Anyways, I remember people looking at my sketchbook when I first started drawing at the zoo and they would say how  this drawing was cool and how that gesture was great.  I had to correct them and be like “David Colman did it.”  That’s why I have little captions on the cool drawings/gestures.

I just wanted to post these to show that we all have to start somewhere on our road to becoming a good artist.  I’m not sure how close I am to being a fairly competent artist, but I packed enough snacks for a long road trip.  Now lets get drawing!