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
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!
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!
John Tucker as Count Dracula: 5-15 Minute poses
I decided to go back to using prismacolor markers for Thursday’s Drawing Club and it almost felt foreign to me. I think it’s because I also utilized a ballpoint pen to gesture in my line and a brush pen to “lock down” the drawing. I saw Eric Canete use a brush pen at his workshop demo this past Sunday and thought it would be cool to try it out in figure drawing.
Not the best of ideas. Eric used the brush pen to establish thick and thin lines in his finish: I used it to make marks, haha. Anyways, it’s always fun to draw John Tucker as he’s very expressive and just has fun with it. The reason I gave Dracula a pompadour was because, earlier in the week, I saw a sketch that my teacher Mark McDonnell did of a vampire Elvis. Gotta give credit to where credit is due.
On a sidenote, Mark McDonnell’s Clothed Figure Quick Sketch class at LAAFA starts tomorrow.
Anyways, hope you guys enjoy the drawrings. Cheers!
Just got back from the Drawing Club. I decided to try out some stuff with graphite, sanguine, a drawing stump since I’ve been seeing Glenn Vilppu do demonstrations with it in his figure drawing class for the past 2 weeks. I’m still trying to figure the technique out as a I go but I think I did an admirable job.
Peggy Moore came in dressed as the Grim Reaper tonight and it was fun drawing her because she got into character. The only drawback to the night was that it was really stuffy in the room. And if you know me, I sweat like crazy and had to be weary of which paper towel I used to wipe my head and which one I used to smear the graphite.
Anyways, I labeled the pages this time (only because I wanted to try out this photoshop brush I made of my signature). So let me know what you guys think. Cheers
drawing club | Carl | 
October 23, 2009 2:28 pm | 
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