To New Waves

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.

Superblook

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | 1 Comment

Fun with a Pencil suggests practicing a lot of spheres, and making the dividing lines, because they are important to getting proper shapes out of them. I followed along and finished with a larger-than-usual blook.

(4/1000)

Frog revisited

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | 3 Comments

After studying more frog anatomy this morning, I drew this with no reference this evening. Pardon the inaccurate anatomy. I also did some drawing in class today, which I’m tacking on as well.

The Great Albino Black Striped Flying Poison Frog

Hours: 6.75/1000

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. 

Palm lines

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | No Comments

The second exercise in DotRSotB (Oof) is to draw your own hand. I did this one fairly quickly, and trying my new shading approach, but I really need to draw it again on a larger sheet of paper. It was difficult to hold my small sketchbook steady while drawing the other hand, which couldn’t be used, of course. 😉

I might try again tomorrow. The next exercise in this book has me drawing someone from memory, which I don’t expect to enjoy.

(3.25/1000)

Cello

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Drawings, Felix | No Comments

I didn’t do as much drawing today. The three little bits I’ve got are the assembly of a poster for a friend’s concert. She didn’t want to pay a lot for printing, so the task was to have only one ink (black) on a colored paper (blue). 

She was looking for a rough, informal and almost gestural type of communication for this poster. I prefer my work a bit rough around the edges anyhow— it keeps me from spending hours obsessing over whether all the lines are straight, symmetrical and “just so!”

This little light..

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Drawings, Jimsan | No Comments

A rough draft of a magazine ad for my media sales course. The details are inconsequential. <g>

Taken with iPhone so not that crazy quality. (Bottom ad copy trimmed)

Please ignore the birds. And the wave crashes.

Hours: 5.5/1000

Self Portrait

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Drawings, SteveMack | No Comments

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’s first exercise involves making a self portrait as one it’s record-keeping exercises, to gauge improvement by the end of the book. I’ve done this twice before for this particular book, but that was over a year ago, so it definitely justified trying again. I also attempted to do some shading here, because it’s definitely a weak point. I’m relatively pleased with how it came out, some proportion errors aside. I’ll need to scan this, because the camera isn’t doing a good job with the shading. No scanner at the moment.

(2.75/1000)

Nothing to show for

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | Jimsan | No Comments

I spent about 45 minutes in class touching up and adding ‘shading’ to one of my copper plates after taking it out of the acid. I attempted to take a picture of it with my iPhone, but the light reflection off the copper made it largely impossible to see. If I can’t get a good shot of the plate itself, I’ll take a picture of a print I make from it.

Hours: 4.25/1000