Random Assortment of Gestures.

Yes, I understand I misspelled "Bieber". :P

Trip to the Museum and a new Pen!

Two sketches at the coffee shop one afternoon. Second is a rare environment sketch. Just the view of a shop on the street outside.

This past weekend, I headed to the Royal Ontario Museum to sketch. Here are some of them.

I purchased a new brush pen and decided to try it out by doing gestures in a local Tim Horton's.

I'm attempting to get more expressive gestures but it's a bit tricky in places like the coffee shop. Most people just stand in line and play on their phones. ><

Finally, a drawing update!

Two of the better pen sketches I've done lately.

Zoo Drawing Dump

I made two 2 1/2 hour trips to the Toronto Zoo over the weekend and came out with more sketches than I do when I visit for the whole day.

Apologies for the lack of posts lately. I've been busy adjusting to the new job.

6/29/12 - Random sketchbook pages.

Life Drawing Dump

Above is a page of gestures we did to exercise control over the size. I tend to draw large when it comes to life drawing, so this was an interesting challenge.

The first row is 15, 15 second gestures. (I couldn't fit the full 15. I ended up drawing into the previous gesture a lot in an attempt to save space.)

The second row was 10, 1 minute gestures.

The third row was 5, 3 minute gestures. These turned great, in my opinion. (Except for the second from the left. It's stiff and I did not exaggerate the pose.)

Above is a 30 minute reclining pose. As Austin put it, certain parts of my anatomy are getting better while other parts are still behind. This leaves me with a sub par product. I know it sounds very negative to say things like that, but I like to focus on flaws first so I can learn what needs more work.

This was a 20 minute pose.


I forgot to post what I did in my last class. This classes focus was chiaroscuro.

We covered paper (in this case, Kraft Paper) with willow charcoal and used knead-able erasers to shade.The first image was a model under a sheet and then with the sheet removed. The second was a portrait. I was annoyed that it was a side view but there was no room anywhere else. ><

Sketch Dump

None of these are edited so there are some bad and some good.

Figure Drawing 1 - Class # 3

A few 1 minute warm ups to start.

We did an exercise where everyone in the class posed for 2 minutes. (We could use props if we liked.)
Most people were pretty creative with their poses. These are my 3 best.

Above is the final pose of the class, timed for 40 minutes. This one was a challenge! Reclining with foreshortened limbs. I measured carefully in order to fit the hands and feet on the paper. (I hate when I cut out of the feet or hands. I tend to draw large.) This one forced me to use all the skills I had been taught. (Measuring how many heads long she was, what was the highest point of her body, what angle are certain things on, where was her elbow joint on her right arm, etc ?) I'm not happy with how the right hand came out...but I was surprised I produced the rest so well!

Some "Victoria Day" sketches.

It's the "Victoria Day" holiday weekend here in Canada. With the weather being so lovely, people flocked out in droves. Here are a few pages from my sketchbook. (More to come as I scan them.)

These were done with a brush pen vs the pen I was using yesterday, which doesn't seem to do well on this type of paper.  (Will stick to a smoother paper for that one.)

I was playing around with white Conte on some of them.

(I got to pet the Basset Hound ^_^)