Bones: not the show, the ones at the La Brea Tarpits!

Day 1 of David Colman’s Animal Drawing Workshop: Paige Museum at the La Brea Tarpits

First time drawing animal skeletons and it was a lot more fun than I expected.  I think it’s because of the fact that I’m drawing something new and also that it’s my first time at the La Brea Tarpits.  I don’t think any of my classes in grade school ever took a field trip there so it was long overdue.

Good times drawing and for those that missed out on the workshop: Dave’s gonna post video of his demo on the web sometime soon.

Anatomy is something that’s been lacking in my drawings, since I’m not familiar with the muscles and structure of animals and people.  Skeletons are great ways to learn form because 1) they stay still and 2) they stay still.  It’s less frustrating when you can move up close and around to get an idea of what you’re looking at when drawing.  Very convenient when studying.

It’s all part of the learning process and something I plan on putting more of an effort in understanding.  It’ll be a nice place to alternate with the zoo when I start using my saturday mornings to hone my animal drawing skills.

Anyways, tomorrow is the real test since we’ll be drawing animals at the zoo.  It’s been a while since I’ve drawn at the zoo so it’ll be interesting at best.

Cheers!

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  By Sherwin Abesamis, October 3, 2009 @ 10:50 pm

  These look great, Carl! Good sense of dimensionality to the drawings. Keep ‘em coming!

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