To New Waves

Skull & Boot

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Here’s a value drawing from my drawing class.

226.5 (Compressed charcoal and conté crayon on paper)

Life in the Kitchen

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

A series of drawings over an evening, mostly documenting people as they came and went in the kitchen. Experimenting with a number of different stylistic approaches, though the actual medium is very similar throughout.





247.5 (Charcoal and graphite on paper)

Kitchen Triad

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

The latest in this series.



Ink and graphite on paper (224.5/1000)

Ink

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

We’re getting started with ink. Today the room was filled with plants in pots, with a few odd skulls and such scattered around for variety and to keep them company.

221.75 (Ink on newsprint)

Drawings Started and Finished

Friday, April 16th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Today was the last day for using vine charcoal in drawing class—next week we’ll be moving on to ink. In the interest of mixing things up and as a fun experiment, I decided to swap drawings after an early critique with another student in the class. Each drawing was worked on for an equal amount of time: I spent half an hour on the first and 1.5 hours on the second, while the opposite was true for her. Here are the results.

Drawing I started and she finished:

Drawing she started and I finished:

Vine charcoal on newsprint (220.75)

Tuesday’s Perspective Study

Friday, April 16th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Another newsprint drawing out of class. Today the junk was stacked vertically, in order to force the students to practice perspective. Above, below, and side-to-side. To me, it doesn’t look like much to show for two hours of drawing and measuring.

Charcoal on newsprint (218.5)

Disorganized Space

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Another day in the drawing class. Today I was working on conveying depth, mostly by muddling and erasing lines farther in the background. I’m not sure how well it worked out, but I like the overall effect.

216.5 (Charcoal on newsprint)

Kitchen Study #4

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

Just another kitchen study done with pencil.

212.5/1000 (Graphite on paper)

Quicker Kitchen Study

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

A friend was working in the kitchen—creating some cilantro sauce in the blender—and consented to my doing some pencil drawing of the proceedings.

211.75 (Graphite on paper)

Drawing Class

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 | Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing | No Comments

We were drawing cubes. I was drawing us. Well, really the whole room. At any rate, the focus for the day was exploration of negative shape and (of course) proportion.

211.25/1000 (Charcoal on newsprint)