Dr. Sketchy's 12.13.10

I went out to the Clermont Lounge, a venerable Atlanta institution, to take part in this month's Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. Here's a few drawings from the night's session.

First up, a challenge to make the drawing into a fairy tale or fable. Add one spider, and voila! Little Miss Muffet.

Life drawing at work

Last week we had the first of what will hopefully be a regular in-house life drawing session at the office. We've got a great space, with a custom built mobile riser for the model. Things got started a little late, but it was a good night for drawing. Its been way too many months since I've done life drawing, and I'm looking forward to making it a regular habit again.

Out with the old

It's two years since I've posted anything here. The old stuff looks like just that: old stuff, and not representative of what I'm up to now, so away it goes for now, and a fresh start opens up. I don't promise to post often -- I'm too busy at work to guarantee that, and all of that work is under NDA, so I can't share any of it. I do plan to make time for more personal work though, and this blog is where I'll post it when I can.

Gaijin Studios Figure Drawing Session

Last night I went over to Gaijin Studios to participate in their now weekly figure drawing class. The Gaijin guys are an amazingly talented bunch, and I figured they would know what they were doing in finding a good model and setting up some good lights, and I was not disappointed. The model was a real pro who could hold a pose like he was frozen in time. The lighting was great, and provided some good form and definition to work with. Here are the sketches I did, starting with some quick pose drawings and ending with a few 20-minute poses. All of these were done with black prismacolor pencil on light newsprint paper, except for the last two, when I got out the charcoal pencil and blending stump.