Life Drawing: longer poses

This was from near the end of the semester.  At the time we were doing more longer poses.  Focusing on anatomy, rendering, structure.  Still working on figuring out how to add detail without making a mess.

Some quick gestures to mix it up.

Interesting pose to draw, don't think I'd drawn a pose like this before.

So this one I did like one of those scribble drawings.  I scribbled that first line, then looked at the model and tried to blend the two.

Like the feel of this one, especially with the re-positioned arm.

Usually a tough angle, this one came out alright I think.

I think the torso is a bit short.  I think it's part perspective, but part me drawing it wrong.

This torso seems better.

Two spacemen, cause I felt like it.  In the first one I think the model had a gun, and in the second one a gun and helmet.  The helmet was cool, so I made up what I thought the armor looked like, because a naked storm trooper is kinda creepy.

Four 15 minute poses to wrap it up.  I think I like the 3rd of the 4 here the best.  Decent weight, rendering, face, hands and feet.  That's it for now!

Life Drawing: two models at the same time?!

This was from a session where two models were booked by mistake.  It ended up being lots of fun.  More things to think about (like perspective and relative size), but great to be able to focus on where the models interacted (looking at or leaning against each other).

Ya, one minute to draw two people goes by pretty quick.

The other costumes were made up, but this one was a real one.  At least it was his coat.

Life Drawing: some abstract and some realistic

Went back to life drawing yesterday.  First session of the summer.  These aren't from yesterday.  I've got a few stacks of drawings to get through first.  Last month of school was pretty busy, so taking pics of stuff sort of came to a halt.  I think these are from mid-March or so.  Playing around with some different styles, some abstract, some realisitc.  More to come, a LOT more.

Sketching in France III (and a bit of Chicago)

Here are a few more sketches from my trip.  This is the last of 'em and then it's back to Vancouver stuff.

This is of a waterfall in Nice.  Really cool.  We had to walk up a lot of stairs to get there, but the mist from the water was a nice way to cool off.  There are big bits of stone coming out from the main face, so the water follows all different paths into the pool.

This was the view from our hotel.  Nice is a great place.  The beach was just down to the right

Some people at the airport.

This statue was in the Nice airport.  I sometimes find it hard to draw beautiful things.  Like by  focusing on making something extra nice, it makes it worse.  Or maybe I was just tired.

Back in Chicago for a couple days before heading back to Vancouver.  This is this neat structure and gardens called the Baha'i temple.

A little farther down the road is this harbour that looks out over Lake Michigan.

Thanks for having a look!

Sketching in France II: Corsica

Here are a few more sketches from my trip to Corsica

Some authentic cafe sketching!  The first 4 were done at a cafe while waiting for my breakfast of coffee and croissant.  The last 5 were done this week back in Vancouver, because once my breakfast came I stopped drawing, and I couldn't leave all that blank space there.

View from a hotel in Calvi.  Dinner time prevented me from adding water and sky, but I kind of like it like this.

View from a hotel in Porto.  Looking right up at these big mountains.  Trying to figure out how to show contrast and depth.

Pool in Porto.  This was the rest day of the bike trip.  It was just the right amount of "normal vacation".  After  a lunch of pasta and ice cream, I cooled off in the pool then sketched, napped, and read poolside.  Ya it was pretty sweet.

Back in the pool after dinner.  Cooling my legs in the water I took another stab at the mountains.  It was pretty dark so I couldn't really see what I was doing.

Hotel view in Corte.  Looking out across a busy street, and up a huge flight of stairs.  I like how everything kind of mashes together organically.  Very few straight lines.

Sketching in France

Bonjour.  So it's been a little while since my last post.  It is summer after all, but mostly it's because I've just returned from a great holiday.  We flew in to Nice for a night, then took the ferry across to Corsica the next day.

Most of my sketching in Vancouver is usually people, so I took this opportunity to focus more on where I was.  It's also easy to do when the scenery is so cool.

View from the hotel window

It's fun trying to pick out what details to include, and how to show them.  Especially without colour.

Some buildings up a hill

These felt almost like landscape gestures.  Scribbly, but I know what they are of (even if other people don't haha).

Waiting for the ferry

Big ship on the left.  Ramp up to the city on the right.  Light posts down the middle.

People on the ferry

People waiting are fun to draw.  Especially when I am waiting too.

Sketching certainly takes longer than taking a picture, but it's pretty cool that I can look at these and remember much more about where I was than I could from a photo.