To New Waves

Wednesday’s Notebook

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

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

Getting in some face time

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | 2 Comments

Not much to show, but better than nothing. Trying some work on basic face-shapes.

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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. 😉

Control

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

I did some work to fix up the frog I posted a few days ago. I intend to use it for printmaking in my second series. This evening I did some more freestyle Cintiqing with the little toon characters I created.

..now and always.

Hours: 11/1000

Megapost

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | 1 Comment

I did quite a bit of pose-work today, with the standard circle-and-line stick figure guys. After a bit, I tried to see what I can flesh in, following the guidance of some helpful manga instruction. Towards the end, I tried my best to copy a character that was there. I had an extremely difficult time making the head-shape not masculine, and even now, it only marginally resembles a female form. I had the hair on, but erased it off to work on the shape stuff without it getting in the way. I ought to try that again with more portait-style poses. And there are a couple lone blooks I did yesterday before I had to pass out. With yesterdays, I drew for 3.5 hours.

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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!

Ribbit Romance

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | 3 Comments

I thought it would be fun to offer people a glimpse as to how I go about most of my drawings. This is done digitally with an intuos, but the same technique is generally applied to paper by using light strokes and lots of eraser. I tend to mess around with the composition using very rough skeletons of the basic objects. When I’m happy with where things are, I’ll start to flesh out the details little by little.

Skeletons

Adding details

And some color!

Hours: 9.25/1000

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. 

Grab at water

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

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Hours: 8.25/1000

mehblooks

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | No Comments

Faster isn’t always better.. Was tired when drawing these guys and they turned out a bit Meh, though I like the bottom right one. I promise I’ll draw earlier tomorrow : / Trying to get to the end of the head-blooks so that eventually I can play with the full bodied ones 😀

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