Drawing 111113

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:43:01 +0000

Frustration and acceptance. Trying to capture the essence of an acrobat.

Drawing 111030

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:39:22 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:43:25 +0000

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.

Drawing 111023

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:10:34 +0000

The Sunday sessions are back. Thank goodness.

Sketchbook #2

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:56:00 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:36:08 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:29:10 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 06:57:12 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:30:08 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:23:57 +0000

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.