Grad School: Human Bodies In Perspective

This week's assignment is to plot human bodies in correct perspective.  I was lucky enough to have a lot of recent life drawings in my sketchbook to use as reference for some of them - it's pretty great to get some additional use out of drawings like that.  

See below for the drawings, and at the very bottom are the original sketches done from live models that were the basis for some of these others.

Grad School Heads in Perspective

This week, had to take some assigned "regular people" straight-on headshots, and translate them into various perspective schemes to draw them at a new angle. Yikes!

Life Drawing March 10, 2012

I've realized that it's been a LONG time since I've posted any of my life drawings - my large format scanner quit working and I have something like EIGHT MONTHS of sketchbook pages from model sessions that haven't made it into the computer or online.  Here are some from today, from my first time working with the fabulous model Toni at the Art Institute of Colorado.

More to come at some point soon, I hope!

Life Drawing September 23, 2011

Definitely have a pile of art to get scanned from this session, but this was the final piece I did, and I liked it enough to put up separately.  Used the brown china markers, and a nice man at the session had prismacolor sticks (sienna) that matched it really well - I'm thrilled with the results!

Big Blue Life Drawing - 9/10/2011

I have a HUGE stack of life drawings from the last month or so... have never drawn as much as I have since I've been teaching this Drawing & Anatomy class.  I've got them all scanned, but need some time to photoshop and collage them up... but in the interest of posting something, here's my very favorite piece of life drawing, possibly ever, from this last Saturday.  I've been using the manila yellow paper for quite a while, and hadn't busted out the fancy Canson Mi-Tientes in quite a while... I was thrilled with how this came out though.  There was a strange burst of light as I was starting with the white pencil (some sort of reflection of the sun off a windshield outside, I suspect) that cast the stripes from the window blinds across the model.  Nice to catch a special lighting moment by accident!

Drawing & Anatomy Class - Week 3

I've got a whole bunch of sketches scanned from the model sessions in my Drawing & Anatomy class so far - I'm walking around critiquing, helping, and trying to teach a lot, but still getting a ton of drawing done on a regular basis.  It's a pretty great feeling to not always be starting from rust & cobwebs!

Life Drawing August 27, 2011

Dragged the Wacom back to school after weeks and weeks of only drawing on paper.  Like falling off a bicycle!

Animal Face Scribbles 3: Chimpanzilla

I haven't been getting much drawing done since starting the new job, but I finally got some recent animal sketches scanned (trying out a new scanner, it's not doing too well with stitching these large drawings together).  Apes are fun to draw!

Animal Face Scribbles 1: Giraffenstein

I've been doing human faces so much lately, thought it would be fun to do some drawings of animal faces, from some of Brooke's great zoo photos. Looking forward to getting out to the zoo again this summer, so she can do a bunch of shooting and I can do a bunch of live animal sketching.

a microscopic cog in a catastrophic plan

just some hand studies

Dragged the wacom to life drawing today.

Life Drawing August 14, 2010

last life drawing for a while. it's been a good few months, thanks to Wes and the AiC for keeping the sessions alive!

Life Drawing August 7, 2010

Life Drawing July 31, 2010

Life Drawing July 24, 2010

Steampunk night at Dr. Sketchy's

Tried out a really cool life drawing session called Dr. Sketchy's here in Denver last night, apparently there are chapters nationwide. Check them out if you're interested in coming to the next one, I believe it's the 3rd Sunday of every month. Really fun. Anyway, last night the model was in Steampunk costume ("steampipe" my wife insists on calling it). There's also a few doodles in there of the other artists, for warmup.

Life Drawing June 12, 2010

Life Drawing June 3, 2010

Life Drawing + Death Drawing

Had an amazing time last night at the Body Worlds exhibit - Artists Night - at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

And some life drawings from this past weekend. I love the way the French Gray prisma pencils worked on the page, but the scanner didn't pick it up too well.