Weekly Workshop VI

Time for me to post a selection from last week's Wednesday night alumni workshop! One of the nice things about going to these workshops is checking in with my former fellow students, and you too can share the magic by checking out the latest workshop sketches from fine folks like Josh and Mike. (And here's some stuff by Mónico and Ben from workshops I wasn't at, boo hoo.)

Speaking of workshoppery, I saw a notice about an event that may interest other Academites and alumnoids. According to the flyer: This Saturday, December 5, there's an "all day drawing event" with models and costumes and whatnot at the Academy of Art's 701 Chestnut building. Fond as I am of marathon drawing exercises, there's no way I can pass up an event that threatens to run from 10 AM to 10 PM.

Anyways, onward to the past! Last week's workshop got off to a bit of a slow start, as I was woefully undercaffeinated. Once that problem had been solved, we did a run of jazzy two-minute sketches with which I'm rather pleased.



These ten minute poses came out okay as well:




The twenty's not so good, but I'll share my shame with you and swear to do better tomorrow.

When Punch Attacks!

Whoo, just got a mention in the Academy of Art Newsfeed! If you've come here looking for my 24 Hour Comic, here are the links:

Commedia Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Critters!

Just did these as samples for an illustration job posting. No idea if it's what the client was looking for, but it does the soul good to draw baby tapirs.





Aaaand putting them all together...

Weekly Workshop V

Coming soon, stuff that's not just workshop drawings! But first, some more workshop drawings.

Let's start with a few five minute sketches. Eric, our workshop meister, revealed his inner nerd by suggesting some superhero poses.



Now some tens and twenties. I think I'm getting the hang of working on toned paper again; thank goodness for those Liquid Paper correction pens.




And one more supervillain pose for the road.

Weekly Workshop IV

Busy busy busy, but here's some more workshoppery. Five minute sketches first:



Now here's me getting all Josh Clements, with the toned paper:



And an iPod sketch. Wowzers, check out me using the whole value range!

Weekly Workshop III

The title is a lie, since I haven't been able to get to the Wednesday night alumni workshop in almost a month. Great model, though - older folks have so much character!

First, some five minute poses...



These were all sports-themed, which reminds me of Kazu Sano's figure painting class, where we were supposed to turn the model into a full-fledged illustration. Maybe the second or third week, I painted up the model as a king from a deck of playing cards, with props and everything. Kazu stands there, scratching his head, and then asks "Okay, but why is he naked?"

The easy answer, of course, is "Because the model's naked," but that's not really narratively satisfying. So where these poses are concerned, let's just assume we're dealing with an athletic nudist. Ten minute poses are up next!



And finally, the return of iPod sketching. I think I'm getting the hang of the tools, now to work on the value and temperature range...

Halloween Flyer

As you can see, the flyer for this year's Halloween movie party is a big step up in production values from last year. If any readers are interested in swinging by, let me know and I'll get you our address and contact info!