Drawing Club: Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde

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!

Vilppu Figure Drawing Class 05

Haven’t been posting much of late. It’s funny how your internet going down for a few days can totally disrupt the blogging process. Anyways, here’s a drawing I did from Glenn Vilppu’s class last week. I would post the other ones, but the pictures didn’t turn out so well. I’ll post them another time.

But anyways, this is another long pose drawing. It’s interesting and a big struggle at the same time because I’m not used to dedicating so much time to a figure drawing.  I’m trying to be more subtle with my tones, but I dunno.  So enjoy?

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!

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!