The sad truth about drawing is that if you don’t use it, you lose it.  I found myself trying to remember how to draw during a figure drawing session last Thursday.  Although a lot of struggling was involved, it’s always refreshing when you get to draw for your own enjoyment.  5 min poses with brush pen and color pencil.

Last night was my first life drawing class in a long time.  Being on hiatus from work makes it so much easier to attend classes.  However, you start to realize how rusty you are at life drawing when you haven’t done it in a few months.  Last night’s drawing session was a lot of trial and error plus a bit of anguish.  Anyhoo, these drawings were the survivors as I tried to shake out the rust for 3 hours.  Cheers.

There’s other drawing that I’ve done aside from the New Year’s Drawing Challenge.  I attend costumed gesture drawing workshops.  Here are some 5 minute poses that I took to a more complete marker rendered finish.  Cheers me mateys!!

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.

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