[a] Figure Drawing Workshop

A few drawings from last night's figure drawing workshop at my company. We started hosting a workshop the first of every month. I'm excited!!

How to get better at drawing?

Copy better artists than you. I studied a drawing by the instructive Kenyon Cox to improve my sense of weight and proportions.

I love using Pinterest to find great reference.

Drawing a character for 3D modeling

Work in progress. The final drawing will be a plan for the 3D modeler.

Surface Pro 4 sketchizzel

Figure drawing with the Surface Pro 4. I'm liking ittttt.

Buddy Visit

My pals, Dane and Colin visited for the weekend. We had a grand guy time. Sunday we went to Los Angeles Gun Club and were reassured we would all stick together during the zombie apocalypse. Well, at least stick close to Colin because he can shoot a fool in the face from far aaawwwwwaaaayyyyy!

Recent sketch madness

Sketches / failures over the past couple days.

Thumbnail drawings

These thumbnail drawings of people are better out of context.

Smoking fox

Katy Perry America

26 Hour Dr.Sketchy Drawathon

There's this sketch club called Dr. Sketchy. They're a hip group of people that hire beautiful models to pose a few times a month. They put on an annual event where you hold up in a room for 26 hours straight and draw. It's as crazy as it sounds.
Here's two drawings I did during that insanity.

January 2013

Yakuza

These were done at the Art Directors Guild last night. Last night was the best workshop yet! We had two models, Jee and Toni and they were awesome together. Everyone had a lot of fun and put out some nice drawings.


This is Yuko from a few weeks ago at ADG.

Soul Searching

A few days ago I was pretty hungry and I wanted some pizza. I decided it'd be a good idea to pawn my soul again. The pizza was delicious.
The next day my mom sent me a few bucks to get my soul back. When the lady in the pawn shop handed me the toe nail clippings I could tell they didn't look a thing like mine. At the time I didn't care about anything so I ate the clippings right up. Ever since then I have felt like a different person.

Apparently I have been thinking in a language called "Catalan" according to Google. My drawing style has been really strange. I tried to explain the situation to the lady at the pawn shop but now she pretends not to speak English. I’m not sure what I'm going to do. I think I'll start by reinventing modern art.

ADG

These little nudies were done at the Art Directors Guild.



For these next two, I started to slow down. Really slooowww down. These are 20 minute poses. I want to sit in on a figure painting workshop at Art Center and draw a 2 hour pose. Then I'll actually finish drawing the whole body.

Morning, GTA, Girls

Alison's room. I won't apologize for the perspective.



Yesterday, I started playing GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony. This is Luis Lopez in a cage match. What a violent video game, my lord!


These girls were done at the Art Directors Guild workshop on Tuesdays. I noticed that whenever I start a drawing I begin at the upper left hand corner. No matter if it's a head, body or a landscape I begin whatever is most upper left. I have a few theories on why I do this. One idea is because people who read English begin at the upper left and move right. I might have the same mentality when I begin drawing. Another reason is because I draw with my right hand and want to start on the left so I don't smear my drawing as I go. These are just ideas, I'm no scientist.
For these figure drawings I started drawing in random places. Some I started on the right toes just to be an opposite. I find drawing this way a lot more fun because I'm not using the same approach and making the same mistakes.

Figure Drawing at ADG

I did these last night at the Art Directors Guild.

Left hand figure drawing

Did this ol' squiggly tonight with my left hand.

Week 13

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