Life studies

A buddy of mine keeps a mean workshop. Once a week he opens his doors for life drawing sessions in the evening and here is a page from a recent one.

WIP

There's been more progress done on this piece. It has been an ongoing discovery.

Portrait Practice

 I started experimenting with reference and expression.

 Really expressive ones.

 I think some of these captured inner beauty.

 Or someone mid stroke. 

 In the end I had a lot of fun with these.

Portrait of the leading ladies

Here is the sketch underlay, pretty simple. Enough to make the right changes along the way

And the first color pass. My favorite part of the process, finding and laying in all those big blotches of color before working on the finer details.

Portfolio - Round 1

stage fright

Incredibly after four years of silence, Wlodyslaw Szpilman playes this.




Wilhelm Hosenfeld had helped another Jew, Leon Warm, providing him with a false identity and a job at a sports stadium in Warsaw.

Szpilman prepares a melody

eel time

I wish I had some moray spare time for these. Ok, that wasn't too sharp.

Mass Madness

Norville Barnes is a wise man.

From one of my favorite Coen Bros. movies, Hudsucker Proxy.

a down time flup-up

some cool-wip

Starting to wrap my head around perspective distortion.

Aztecs and anatomy

What my SO would look like in Aztec warrior garment.

Here are a couple of sketch pages from a crit day at school I did with a colored pencil, never thought they would be my weapon of choice. Got some advice from an inspiring artist on line weight early on: just let the line breathe. Concise advice, that came as a reaction to a rough five minute life drawing. Don't mean to sound simple but it haunted me, as simple as it was it made me re-evaluate my drawing technique. Ever since its been a journey towards improving and it feels like its going somewhere. Line drawings turned into the habit I always sought out for. They came back out from hiding in that ten year old's doodle binder and now here they are again... breathing... lines...they hyperventilate sometimes.