Holy cow - I taught a whole entire class!

Last week was the final week of my first class as an adjunct professor - it was such a blast, and I can't wait to start teaching again this week.  For the last day, I gave a (very) easy final, and then spent the class time going over facial features, specifically "how to draw noses" and then the class challenged me to do a portrait drawing there in front of them... this is what I got in the waning minutes of my wonderful class:

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!

Arbivorosaurus

Just a-doodlin'. Beat the crap out of a mechanical pencil to get this done.

Kobe-Wan Kenobi

Been struggling with adding some sports figures to my portfolio, I thought this would be a pretty unique and recognizable face. This is the second attempt at a sketch, it's amazing sometimes how much you learn in re-drawing something.

(okay, okay.. I'll show the original, even though it bugs the hell out of me)

Natalie Portman as Mathilda in Léon

Some sketches for the weekly Caricaturama 3000 Facebook Challenge. Still my favorite role she's ever played.

Medieval Crap

Been playing a lot of Dragon Age 2, got me in the mood for drawing some swords 'n crap.

Some other recent pinup-type sketches

Watcha gonna do, when the 24 inch pythons destroy you?

for Caricaturama 3000 Weekly Facebook Challenge