I’m working on some big commissions that I can’t show you guys, so it’s tits ahoy for now! Our model this week was the lovely Laura, whose classical features were super fun to draw.
Until next time!
Tag: practice
To further combat the dreaded ARTRUT, I returned to figure drawing this week! Had a blast and got some good sketches done to boot. I’ll definitely be making this a weekly thing.
Julie was an amazing model. I had so much fun drawing her. Also tackled some watercolor and ink for the longer poses.
That’s all the art for now!
This week I revisited an exercise given to me by my awesome mentor Eben Matthews almost ten years ago.
In one of our early meetings Eben asked me what my least favorite thing to draw was. Like any budding 13-year-old artist I immediately pulled a face and said “hands.” He smirked and told me to come back with 100 of them drawn by our next session. I glowered and grumbled, but truth be told it was a deeply valuable exercise that stuck with me for a long time (even after he made me draw 100 feet the following week, the scum!).
While recently looking at lots of inspirational animation captures of beautifully rendered, expressive hands, I realized how long it had been since I’d drawn those first 100 and decided to do it again. I sketched a lot of them during classes, but also used various photo references and even some of the animation stills to get an idea of how to effectively simplify the anatomy.
Rather than a week, this took me about five hours altogether. It feels so good that I may have to start doing it more often. A decade is a little too long.
As you can see, I devolved a little at the end there and started drawing eyeballs and classmates — one of whom happens to look an astonishing amount like the female protagonist of Dylan Meconis’ spectacular comic, Family Man. Who knew?
And, to round things out, here are a couple quick sketches of puppets from the amazing John Frame exhibit currently showing at the Portland Art Museum. Strange, fascinating stuff if you get the chance to go see it.
That’s all for now! I’ve got some really exciting news and projects on the horizon, but I can’t share them quite yet, so I’ll try to keep the little illustrations coming.
Trying to keep my drawing muscles in shape while I work on the script (yes, SCRIPT. WITH WORDS. Crazy, I know.) for Wherefore. I’ve been so inspired by re-reading (and re-re-reading, and re-re-re-reading) Jen Wang’s Koko Be Good that I’m considering adding some watercolors to my linework for the final product, so tonight I started doing some small studies.
I’ve also been meaning to try drawing more animals, so there will probably be more of these in the future. Couldn’t be arsed to scan them, since my computer is reaching the point where merely thinking about opening Photoshop sends it into a panic attack, but rest assured they’re all transparent and watercolorey in real life.
