Clothed Figure Drawing - Midterm Roundup

Holy crap, I haven't posted since January (it's all Facebook's fault, it's easier there).  Here is a huge pile of the drawings I've done for my Clothed Figure Drawings class so far this semester, all compressed charcoal on newsprint. (except the yellow ones, those are a portable Manila sketchbook)

Portraits from Life Drawing Class

I just started a new quarter teaching a Life Drawing class at the Art Institute of Colorado.  Week 1 I assigned the class a self portrait/caricature assignment, and I brought a couple of famous faces to draw as demonstration.  The whole class got involved, we gathered 'round the sketchpad and worked on likeness and face construction techniques together.  It is a really fun group, we had a great session, and I got a couple nice portrait sketches out of it!  (It was Presidential Debate Night in Denver, so I brought the two candidates, and to even out the genders, brought a local wunderkind celebrity as well.)

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!

Here are some Zoological Doodles.

Realized that I don't post a lot of sketches anymore - most of the doodling I do ends up being finished portrait or caricature paintings.  This means two things - I need to sketch more, and when I do it, I need to scan and share it like I used to.  I'm quite sure that I'll be burning pencils like kindling here in a week, when grad school starts. So never fear!  Here's some animals that I sketched today while watching the AFC and NFC championship games.

a Japanese Macaque

a Right Whale                                                a Peacock

In-Flight Sketches NYC: Andy Richter and Reggie Watts

On the flight to NYC for the Conan exhibit and show, I decided to try to sketch everyone that would be appearing on the Halloween live show that we were attending, just in case we got to meet any of them and get autographs.  The guests were Jimmy Fallon and Reggie Watts (also Mayor Bloomberg, but that was unannounced).  I sketched a couple of Jimmy Fallon, but those were awful so you don't get to see them.

I did a fun one of the co-host Andy Richter, and we did have the great fortune to meet him after the show, while he tried to sneak out incognito to do Halloween stuff with his kids.  He was super nice - I gave him the signed original sketch to take with him, and he signed a color copy I had made.  It's framed now, in the new Hallway of Fame (thanks Brooke for the idea to hang all the signed stuff there) and I just finally remembered to take a snapshot.

(Here's the awful phone pic of me and Andy - what a nice guy!)

I also drew Reggie Watts (if you don't know who he is, you should go find out http://reggiewatts.com/ ) and it came out to be one of my favorite sketches ever.  Unfortunately we never got to see him, but I still hope to get a signed copy to him and a signed one from him somehow.

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!

In-Flight Sketches, Part 7: Paul Newman

My man Luke can eat FIFTY BOILED EGGS.

Here's #7, a full vacation's worth of airplane sketches.  Hopefully my china markers will be on fire on this next trip too!

In-Flight Sketches, Part 6: Tom Cruise

Day 6: You can't handle the truth.

In-Flight Sketches, Part 5: Oprah Winfrey

One host to rule them all...

In-Flight Sketches, Part 4: Steve Martin

Former wild and crazy guy.

Btw - these all came from a People Magazine "Top 100 Celebrities Who Defined Our Time" thing I grabbed at the airport on the way out of Denver.

In-Flight Sketches, Part 3: Audrey Hepburn

Day 3 of 7 of the Airplane Drawings

In-Flight Sketches, Part 2: Clint Eastwood

He feels lucky.  

Day 2 of the Airline Sketch Extravaganza: the multitalented Mr. Eastwood.

In-Flight Sketches, Part 1: Tom Hanks

Every time we take a trip anywhere, I always bring art supplies, and then always end up reading books or playing stupid angry birds or something.  But this last trip, to Washington DC and Baltimore, I actually spent all of the plane flights (2 each way, with stops) drawing my butt off.  I stuck with the manila paper, brown and white china markers, and really got kind of a groove going.  Since I ended up with exactly 7, I'm going to put up one per day for the next week, and share the turbulence-tossed goodness with the world.

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 2: Heffalump

Digital sketch, big damn elephant head.