Celtic Warrior

From a costume gesture drawing class this week.  The model came in as a Celtic Warrior and I was fortunate enough to turn out a decent drawing.   A tad too heavy-handed with the drawing, but I like the overall design.   I approached the drawing wanting to use different proportions and shapes from what I normally do.   It’s probably why this drawing was one of my favorites from the night.

Buffalo Brave

I was looking at my portfolio recently and noticed that I didn’t have that many character designs of kids.  So I spent some time during the week coming up with a design that I would care about.  If I didn’t, it would just look uninspired and just plain boring.  After some thought, I came up with Buffalo Brave.  I drew it in pencil, scanned it in photoshop for digital inking and coloring.  Hope you guys enjoy, cheers!

PS – Buffalo Brave has a sidekick, so look forward to that

watercolors?

Trying something new by dabbling with watercolors today. It’s something I dreaded in color theory class but I felt I needed to give the medium an honest attempt.   I got the idea to paint nude figures from some watercolors Mark McDonnell has been doing from figure drawing sessions.  I recently got an uninstructed workshop pass at LAAFA, so I thought it would be a good idea to use one of the workshop days to practice watercolors.   So these are some test runs before I start doing watercolors from a live model.

Since they’re studies/test runs, I didn’t want to be committed to a design so I started flipping through the Art Models Books to find poses to paint.  I think it’s better that way.  When I screw up, I won’t be so butt hurt about it and I’ll just move on to the next one.

The approach is similar to the one that David Colman uses in his iphone sketchbook app.  Didn’t exactly stick to the script, but it’s a start.  So here’s to progress, cheers!

paintings 18,19,20, 21 of 1001?

Link Em:
1001 Painting Challenge
David Colman Water Color Doodles Volume 1
Mark McDonnell
Live Model Books
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art