I’ve been incredibly busy this month, so here’s all of the interesting things I’ve drawn this last month.
Copies out of a book, fun to do on occasion.
Got an hour into this drawing before I realized I was on the back side of the paper, so I moved on to another piece.
Maybe an hour or so from a live model. I have a hard time drawing her.
This one was a couple of hours I believe, from a live model. He's one of my favorites.
A Henry Yan copy. I love his work, but his portraits are always a bit off.
This is probably the best thing I've ever drawn. Another master copy.
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We will be on break for Thanksgiving, so drawing will recommence next Monday. Here’s what I did today for good measure.
I'm down to 30 minutes on this one. There's problems with it, but I cut my time in half, so I'll take what I can get.
This took a couple hours. I have to work at a larger scale from now on. Probably give this one away.
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I lucked out by being new, because now I don’t have to do a personal project and get to draw with impunity. Next week I start drawing an X-Wing fighting an origami crane. I’m slightly terrified but it will probably be fun. In the meantime I’m practicing copying other people’s block-ins because I’m really bad at them.
It took 2 hours for me to do this, turns out it should never take longer than 40 minutes =P. I have a long way to go.
The head is still too small, but I'm getting better at that. This model kept turning during the breaks, kept messing up my perspective...
I don't remember how long this one took. Probably longer.
This is the last of the simple still lifes. Never did get very good at them.
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We didn’t have a model last week, so no nudie drawings this post, and if today’s work is any indication there might not be any next time either. Instead of figure drawing, we took Wednesday to take a field trip to the Seattle Art Museum.
- The Michelangelo is in town and we had to do copies off the wall. This was the only one that turned out well
- I was getting tired near the end, but I caught a glimpse of ‘Jessica Penn in Black’ by Robert Henri and had to draw it.
We had to take a master drawing a trace the skeleton over it.
- The word of the week was Mask. I decided to write a short story and do an illustration. I liked the drawing but hit a block with the story.
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I think the figure model was laughing because I had my shirt on backwards all day and didn’t know it. *sigh*
I've graduated from shadow globes to simple still life. I have a world of work ahead of me...
The word of the week was 'Power'
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For the past six weeks I’ve been taking a drawing class at Gage Academy of Art here in Seattle, and I recently found out about their Atelier programs. Basically they come down to full time studio apprenticeships in a group of around 15-20 people. You work at your own pace and graduate to harder projects when the instructor says you’re ready to move on.
I had hoped to get into the Drawing and Painting Atelier next fall and was nervous about being accepted at the Spring submission. I met the instructor about two weeks ago and instead of giving me advice on how to better prepare, he told me their was an opening now and that I could jump in now and hit the ground running. I started at the Atelier on Monday. Now, in addition to my random short stories, this blog will chronicle my personal growth over a year of intensive, focused study in the fine arts.
This is me starting from scratch as an absolute beginner. I didn’t even doodle in highschool, that’s how fresh I am. Come June, I’ll set these images against my last week’s and see how far I’ve come.
The first charcoal still life from my Foundation Drawing class
A figure drawing from 10/26/09, so technically this is from week 2. Close enough.
The word of the week was Lineage/Tradition. I thought I'd do the death of the traditional comic strip/political cartoon.
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