My pal Thor from the Drawn N Quartered competition a couple of months back. I'm pretty sure that was a tentacle she was sitting on, but I was wearing a wrestling mask, and sometimes it gets hard to see.
Showing posts with label Life Drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Drawing. Show all posts
Tess La Coil At Murray Hill
My pal Tess La Coil from Murray Hill Life Drawing Group a few months back. That girls always got floating stars coming out of her head.
Thor @ Murray Hill
A while back, Thor posed at Murray Hill wearing her wedding dress. She looked sad, probably because I was drawing her.
Taking A Break From Drawing To Go Draw
I've been super busy drawing things for other people lately. It's been amazingly great, although I think I'm at a point where I enjoy drawing from life the most. There's this stop and smell the roses aspect to it that can't be replicated in a studio.
So, I hit the Murray Hill drawing group for the first time in way too long. Great group of folks, and the coffee shop down the street has really good fig bars. It's also the first time I rocked a straight up pencil in my sketchbook in a good long while. I think it's time to bring that back.
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I'm getting to a point where I'm comfortable ( I didn't say good) with longer poses and super comfortable with short poses (I do 12 one minutes a day here: Figure Drawing Tool ), but I'm still figuring out the ten and twenty minute poses. All drawing, even life drawing, is about icons, and I need to work on my shorthand, to figure out what I'm capable of in that time.
Guess I'll keep drawing.
Wednesday Evenings With Fast Eddie
I've been hitting the Cleveland Institute Of Art's wednesday drawing group for years, although it doesn't happen with enough regularity anymore. Fifteen bucks gets you 2 hours of a naked (or nearly naked) person to draw from. The room isn't air conditioned, There's no instruction. and the lighting is piss poor compared to the time I spent at the Academy Of Art, but I'll take it. There's nothing more cathartic than you, a model, and some heavy metal.
The last pose is always an hour and a half, and it's really pushed me to a new level. Before and even during school, I always drew just enough to get by, and then I'd run out the clock before it got too hard. I didn't get into this art nonsense to work hard, after all. With this longer format, I've got no choice but to do something with the time. I wish I would have done it sooner, because it's the most rewarding thing I do nowadays.
I've been working with this format for a little over a year (the previous instructor preferred short poses), and I think in the coming months I'm going to switch to a heartier paper. While the price is right on newsprint, I've honestly only stuck with it to not give my work too much importance. You never have to explain a mistake on newsprint, because it can always hide under the guise of a "sketch"
While I've got a lot to learn, and a ton to grow, I feel like these are drawings that I'll want to keep for a while. Hopefully to look back at how much I've grown in the coming years.
Spring Cleaning
It's been a whirlwind few months, and I've been lackadaisical about posting after life drawing sessions. Most of this is from Dr.Sketchy Cleveland, with a few from Murray Hill peppered in for good measure. Nothing longer than 20 minutes, and all in the sketchbook (I assume the book seam gives that away.)
With the summer approaching, I'm eager to bike for statue drawings, those dudes never move.
A Stick Figure In Cleveland: Part Two
More from anatomy class this semester. Per usual, 18x24 newsprint and charcoal, anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour and a half. These have been the most fun, and rewarding of my recent hectic weeks. I can usually pull off listening to Smodcast and locating a scapula simultaneously, so they end up being pretty low stress.
Just like the rest of school, I'm chomping at the bit to put these new skillz into practice with something fun!
The Summer Romance Has Blossomed To A Fall Relationship
While I'm busy getting through the semester, I thought I'd post the work I did over the summer at the Cleveland Institute Of Art's wednesday life drawing workshops. These range from an hour to an hour and a half on 18 x 24 newsprint with charcoal. It was a struggle forcing myself to spend that much time on one pose, but I feel like I'm better for it. Especially juxtaposed with what I was doing in the workshops before I left for San Francisco.
I'm hoping to hit these again soon, since they've always been a great exercise for me. I'm also really excited to put this anatomy study into good use.
A Stick Figure In Cleveland: Part One
Like In San Francisco, I want to chart my figure drawing growth on the website. Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to keep up with it as well as I'd like.
Cleveland's a drinking town after all.
Here is the first month of my anatomy assignments and exercises. They are mostly forty minute charcoal drawings done on 18 x 24 newsprint.
They are all done from photos. I plan on uploading work from over the summer from a live model, and hopefully get to some more figure drawing sessions in the near future.
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