November 21, 2009

Pastels


It's gangster Brandon!!!! Apparently I need to learn what a cigarette looks like when it's burning...




And here is Brandon's portrait of me! I'm so eeeeeeevil! I should start working on my evil laugh...
I love all his color, he has a much more painterly approach than I do. Check him out at http://brandonpikeart.blogspot.com/



Clothed Figure Dump

I love clothed figure drawing! These are all 20 minute poses, from throughout the semester...






Cattle rustlin'



Come an' get it!


Ok this one was 30 minutes...


November 18, 2009

An evening (or two) with Mike Mattesi


So I had the opportunity last week of going to a two night workshop with Mike Mattesi, author of a book called Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators. He has worked for Disney, Dreamworks, Marvel (and many others) and is now teaching at Pixar. His philosophy revolves more around the movement of the figure rather than finding accurate shapes.


So these are the drawings I did at the very beginning of the first night, before he taught us anything. These ones were two minute drawings.

So these are 30 second poses, where he told us we could use only ONE line to find the "biggest event" of the pose. So each line here is a different pose. We did a TON of these, pretty much spent the entire first night on this. 


By the end of the night we were allowed to add a few more lines, while still focusing on the main action. (One minute drawings)

So the second night we focused on the rhythm of the figure, while still holding onto the principles we learned the night before. He showed us how the forms flow into each other... (all of the following are 2 minute poses)


Almost.....


Getting there....


Yes!! Got it!! Finally!!



Aaaaaaaand then he made us do blind poses.... (drawing without looking at your paper) yuck!

But after a ton of those it finally started to click! It actually looks like a person! I swear I didn't cheat and look...



Some final 3 minute poses (we could look for these)! So although it started off a bit rough... it was a great experience!! My quick poses improved a TON! Plus it was great to learn a different way of thinking about figure drawing. Yey!


Editorial Portrait



Watercolor portrait of Chris!! I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, I spent a lot of time on this one. Plus now I know how to paint smoke and fire! Yey!

November 5, 2009

I wonder what will happen?



A pen and ink assignment from Illustration 1, emphasizing pattern and texture. This is a little bit of a play on Alice in Wonderland... a very little bit.  So what do you think will happen when she pulls the rope? Hmmm... DOES she pull the rope?

ZOO!


Another watercolor assignment. Why I chose to paint a polar bear against a white background? I don't know... perhaps I like to torture myself. And once again... terrible picture quaility, blah blah blah, I'll get a proper camera someday.