1/14/13

Is there such a thing as watching too much SVU?

1/12/13

I love them so.

7/2/12

6/14/12

1/30/11

Sketches drawn at this Sunday's Dr Sketchy's. The night's theme was Neil Gaiman's Sandman characters.

10/11/10

4/6/10

Two Saturdays ago I attended Dr. Sketchy's for their circus-inspired session. Fun variety of costumes and poses this time around (the last model from the previous time I attend barely moved). I even broke out my watercolor moleskine for the event (on which I painted the last two sketches). It amazes me how naturally I am taking to using watercolors. Since taking an inking for comics class, I've become much more comfortable using such mediums. I find it more practical using watercolor/ink for life drawing than pencils now. Go figure!

3/13/10

I headed to the Metropolitan Museum on Friday and sat myself down in the seldom visited Arts of Africa, Oceania and The Americas galleries. I found the masks, figurines and totem poles to be expressive little characters ripped right from a page of a comic book or frame from an animated movie; distinct personalities with stories waiting to be told and heard.

Unfortunately, fifteen minutes into my second study (after getting over the small crowd of people looking over my shoulder while I was drawing), one of the guards politely tells me wet media is not allowed in the museum unless I have special permission. He added that pen/markers are also not allowed (as if he knew what my next choice in medium was). So caught off-guard (and annoyed) was I that I stormed out of the gallery and forgot to take down notes on the totems.

Think I might try the American Museum of Natural History next, as they have a larger collection of totem poles. Although I'll have to keep the watercolors at home. Boo.

2/28/10

Had a chance to attend this past Saturday's Dr. Sketchy's session on the Lower East Side with Laz Marquez. However, we got there an hour late (oops) and only managed to find a spot to stand in the back of the bar. Our distant viewpoint of the model posed some challenges, but Laz and I pumped out some amazing drawings. Oddly enough, I brought my watercolors to the session (and anyone who knows me knows I never use watercolors), proving to be a good case of foresight. I worked loosely and produced these sketches on my moleskine (which held well and barely buckled). The highlight of the night was when Laz won the final contest, which has us incorporating a dictator into the drawing (trust me, as soon as he posts it I will provide a link). We might try going again in two weeks, my job schedule notwithstanding.

1/20/10

10/19/09

From last week's drawing session.

10/9/09

This week's model was particularly hard to draw, and I wasn't the only one who had trouble in class. At some point I decided to forgo drawing her head (or actually create an entirely new face), which yielded better results.

10/6/09

These are the 5, 10, and 20 minute poses (respectively) from last week's life drawing class. By the end of the session I had gotten the hang of it. Still need to speed up, though. Wondering if I should go tomorrow or stay home and work on other endeavors?

10/1/09