To New Waves

Halloween & Sort-of Horses

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix | No Comments

All right, just to get ahead of the game, I’ll post the drawings I’ve made so far today. This includes my first color drawing for this blog ever!!

6 Days of Scribbles

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix | No Comments

A huge apology to everyone, particularly Steve and Jimsan. I dropped the ball in a kind of huge way. To make up for it, I’ll put the past week’s scribbles all in one post. Today’s drawings will come along later in their own post. Enjoy!

Wednesday’s Notebook

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Drawings, Felix | 1 Comment

Today, one contribution from the natural world and one from the unnatural world.

Back to My Roots

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Abstract, Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Since I’ve only posted more or less finished images to this blog, I thought I’d post these two “in progress” drawings that I drew but that were never finished. I would have finished them, but it was one of those situations where you’re putting a sneaky eye on people and drawing them surreptitiously. I didn’t want to make a fuss when they got up and left.

The third piece is something else, an abstraction that took me a while. I think Steve was joking, but he told me I should go back to doing abstractions. 😉

Catching Up

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Whew! Sorry about not posting over the weekend, folks. I’ve retroactively added my drawings for those days (I wasn’t slacking! Too much…). Today’s is another one somewhere between memory drawing and making it up as I went. The essence of it is, I wanted to draw a female nude, but didn’t have any nude women handy when I wanted to (I was riding the bus.) Cheers!

Chopper

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

 Not much to tell, here. Just a motorcycle I drew while waiting for a friend to finish eating lunch. It was parked by the side of the road. You can tell from the way I fudged the shapes in the middle that technical drawing is not my strong suit. 

Fir Cone

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

It was winding here, and raining, and the other things it does when it’s grey and a bit chilly. I was sitting outside, waiting, when it struck me that I hadn’t done my drawing for the day. Looking around for something to draw, I found this cone, which turned out to have a neat sort of pattern that I became especially aware of as I drew it.

More Life Drawing

Friday, October 17th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

I’m fairly happy with “Rachel,” but “Nate” isn’t looking so good. Not sure what I did wrong while I was drawing it, but it’s partly just that I was working with a fatter-tipped pen and it got scribbly. C’est la vie.

Life Drawing – iPod Shuffle

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

So, my main goal for this 1000 hour drawing project is to become better at drawing from life and observation rather than from my own preconceived notions of what various things look like. For things that I draw frequently, I have a template in my head of what things are supposed to look like, and my drawings reflect it.

More observation and less filling in the blanks is the order of the day.

Autumn in Seattle

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix | No Comments

Since Steve was talking about about memory drawing, I thought I’d take a swing at it this morning. The weather’s been crisper here, and autumn is one of my favorite seasons in Seattle. I made up these two characters to illustrate the quintessential joy of the season — the return of the rain and the changing leaves. 

Calling this memory drawing is a bit of a stretch, though. It’s more “loosely inspired by people I know” than trying to draw anyone or anything in particular from my head.