Mari

More charcoal and white-out stuff. Portrait drawing is probably my favorite thing. The white-out didn't work out quite as well in this as the fruit basket in my opinion but I love it's strong whiteness. I probably just need to figure out how to work it better...or maybe I need white gouache...hmmmmm....white gouache....

Ye Ole Fruit Basket

Home-made Art Horse gets taken for a test spin. Set up Ye Ole Fruit Basket still life in with a lamp and kicked it student style again.

Materials:
Big newsprint
Medium vine charcoal
Compressed charcoal
White out pen
Digital stamp

Started getting a hang of exaggerating values about half way through. Next time I wanna set up stuff with a wider range of surfaces and textures.

Home-made Art Horse

Getting bored of drawing people looking at menus and shoving their face. I also want to improve in seeing and drawing values. So in preparation for some good ol' still life drawing I wanted to get an art horse to sit on so I wouldn't have to cross my leg and hunch over my pad...but Craigslist had nothing....Ebay, nothing. And the only thing I could find online was a Dick Blick art horse for $100. So I stole the dimensions from it and went to Home Depot.

Dick Blick = $100
Nick Blick = $10

Art horse done.

Life Drawing @BellSquare

Got a surprise babysit from my parents so Mari and I split up to go do our own thing. I went to downtown Bellevue to get some markers from the University Bookstore and then walked over to the mall to sketch some people dressed up in stuff to go buy more stuff to get dressed up in to go buy more stuff :P I don't like malls.

Life Drawing @Art/Not 002

 Barely made it to life drawing again this week but the streak continues!...drank way too much and stayed up way too late last night. Pretty much rolled out of bed put clothes on and got in the car. The whole animation team (3 people) from Signal was out drawing today, was cool. Longer poses this time. 5 and 12 minute poses. Tried doing some shading for the first time since I've been back drawing again only to realize that my eye for values is crap. Everything looks the same to me....turrible. Gotta change that.

Signal and the Ale Hosue

The final day of my first week back drawing I'm posting some life drawings from work and from the Ale House in Bothell. It's possible that this week I've actually put more "miles" down on paper than any other week before in my life...about...75 pages of sketches and "finished" drawings. Feels pretty good to take a step back from the computer and engage the world around me directly with "real" drawing. I'm characteristically inconsistant so we'll see how long the streak lasts, but hey, here's to an active week of drawing. 

Sophie

Trying to draw a toddler is no easy business. I have a bunch of pages of almost-drawings of her...haha. I had to catch her playing in tub where her mobility is (somewhat) limited, and even then she only gave me like...30 seconds or so. I didn't realize until I started sketching her how cool toddler proportions are...definitely helps in getting faster too!

Hand it over...

Couldn't resist some sort of hand pun...but I can't say I'm too satisfied with the one I chose. Whatever, I'm tired, and I just left Mari alone post-X-Files, and she's probably sh*ttin' a brick upstairs...haha. Anyways I couldn't get out and draw today so I'm kickin' it student style with some hand studies.

Sketches @ Panera Bread

You pick 2: black bean soup, Mediterranean veggie sandwich, apple.

Furiously sketching people waiting in line. Probably 10- 20 second gestures.

Me: "You wanna see the drawing I made of you?"

Subject 2nd from right: *rolls eyes* "Not really."

Me: "Ok..."

Haha.

'Round-The-House Portraits

Sleeping Sophie, X-files, a mirror, 2 Tombows, and m'lady.

Life Drawing @Alexa's Cafe

Went and grabbed the daily special omelet, substitue mushrooms for the bacon, and sketched the people around me.

Life Drawing @Art/Not

Apparently it's been almost 2 years to this day since I drew something for myself. Well, well....

Above are a couple of 1-minute gestures. Below is a 5 minute pose plus some photoshop.