Drawing 111113
Frustration and acceptance. Trying to capture the essence of an acrobat.
Drawing 111030
Whoops…I forgot to post last weeks drawings. Neither of these look anything like the model. But it is an improvement from the previous week.
Drawing 111030
Today was really hard. I could not get in a good mental state for quality drawing. I finally just tried to embrace the ugliness that was going onto the page.
Sketchbook #2
Yep. It has been a year+ since I posted about my first sketchbook… the point being to put something on the page each day. I should have finished several since then. But at least I have been doing a lot more drawing beyond this 5×7 format. And I am ready to move on to the third with more confidence and motivation. Here’s my favorite pages from #2:
Drawing 110619
I am lucky to have friends who will sit and let themselves be drawn. It’s a creative exchange. I tried to do both of these fairly quick as I didn’t have a lot of patience today.
Drawing 110531
This isn’t lifedrawing. It’s not from a live model. I’m in between live model opportunities. But I actually sat down and drew this last night, all on my own. That sounds silly. But most of the drawing I’ve done over the last year has been during a get together of some kind. So although this is your typical, easy, pretty girl, long hair, portrait from a photo, I figured I should post it as a different kind of accomplishment.
Lifedrawing 110508
Looks like I need to find a new place to get my fix of drawing on Sundays for the summer. I hope I can fill it with outdoor sunny adventures painted in pastels. Last weeks drawing was the opposite. A rainy day fit for drawing inside. An umbrella suited the mood as well.
(maybe I’ll practice working on hands this summer.)
Lifedrawing 110417
I hated this one. I call it the “Green Goblin”. I have since moved on and kind of like it now. Thanks for the encouragement and slight art direction from my lifedrawing pal, Sierra.
Lifedrawing 110410
Today I made it to drawing on time, so I was able to draw all of the short poses that I normally miss out on. Here’s one out of two pages.
And here is the long pose. I had a hard time with the front leg for some reason. I think I should go back to doing more than one drawing for the long pose. When I get too involved in one for a couple hours it seems a little stiff. However stiff as this is, I did enjoy working with bright pink pastel on kraft.
