More Costumed Figure, warm-ups

Week 3 of Costumed Figure class.

This week I tried working with black and purple inks to begin with, but found myself struggling to get the effect I wanted. We had just done a lecture about folds in fabric, and I really wanted to explore that in this model's outfits. So I switched mediums.

This just wasn't a great week for me. Ah well.

I did two finals for this week. Both were pretty "fashiony", not too exciting as a character study. 

And now for some warm-ups from the past few days.

NARWHALS. Oh man, why am I stuck on Narwhals? All of these are right from my head, no references, mostly Bus Drawings. 

These were all done using photographic references. I need to get back into life-drawing, but right now all I wanna do is draw wacky characters.

More Drawings from reference.

That's it for today! I'm back to drawing!

Warm-ups

Here are some warmups from the past few days.

From photos taken after a visit to the OMSI museum. Done in ink with white prismacolor pencil.

 

These were done mostly in col-erase pencils.

That gives you an idea of what I do to loosen up in the morning, on the bus, things like that.

More Costumed Figure

Today I go say goodbye to some friends who are graduating. Here is the next set of drawings from Lee's class.

This model's hair was freaking incredibly fun to draw. I started to experiment a little here with design elements like background shapes and things. I struggled for the first part of the class, as you can see, on this one until I switched media.

Still struggling...

Ah, switching media did the trick! This is just blue Col-erase pencil with blue prismacolor pencil over top.

Back to playing heavily with shape and design.

I'm pretty disappointed with my final for this week. I should have come through and done another version of it, fixed some of the tangent issues, pushed the shapes a little more, things like that. I wanted that rough, storybook/ children's book illustration look, but could have chosen a better media to work with. Maybe I will revisit this piece later in watercolor or digitally.

And here are things I am in the process of working on:

They began as doodles and evolved into inking practice and later today I will tackle them with watercolors and see if I can bring them to life. If you look closely at them you can see that my nibcontrol (my inking quality) is pretty lacking. Need more practice! Also, I got impatient with the guy at the top, and ended up with a big fat blorb of ink by his shirt. Still contemplating how to deal with it (of if I should do anything at all).

That's it for now!

I Have a Blog

(Cue fanfare)


It finally occurred to me to have one of these so I can post art things. Isn't that smart?

My first post is a series of sketches we did the first week in my Costumed Figure Drawing class with Lee White (his website: http://web.me.com/leewhite3/Lee_White_Illustration/Gallery.html  and a sketch blog he contributes to: http://pageadaysketches.blogspot.com/  ).

 Page one was me trying to get a feel for what we were doing.

The one on the right shows me playing around with shape a lot more.

I used the top one on this page for my final illustration:

I will be posting the rest of the classwork from that class over the next few days. Be excited!