Digital Painting!

For my painting class, we have to do a short paint sketch every day. They only have to be about 5"x7", so they really shouldn't take more than 30 minutes or so. I decided I wanted to get better using my Wacom, so the last few sketches I've been doing are all digital. I think I'm finally getting used to it a little bit.

Digital Sketch

Here's a sketch of balloon boy Falcon Heene. Hoax or not, I find the story to be ridiculously hilarious.

Rio!

Sketch dump!

Here's a couple doodles. I've got a lot more from this semester that haven't been scanned in yet. The first, of course is Alfred Hitchcock. He's got a great face, and I think I'll try taking another stab at him sometime. The other sketches are some memory sketches of skulls. I think I'm starting to get the hang of drawing them from memory somewhat convincingly. (after drawing millions of them from skull models, you'd think eventually I could do it from memory)

Open life drawing pictures.

I've been drawing at the open life drawing sessions every week, and I'll just say that I was way out of practice. I noticed a lot of lost dexterity and lack of patience in my drawings starting out. But the last two sessions have gone a lot better. I've been trying to work on nailing down proportions, good line weight and value variation, accurate musculature, and accurate values. Most of the poses have been pretty short, rarely over 30 minutes so the value studies are a little harder to come by.



This was an hour pose from last week. There are a few good things going on, but I don't think the value really strengthened the drawing at all. In some areas it makes the forms confusing.



These two are from last week as well. One is a 10 minute pose and the other was 15 or 20.




Here I was just playing around during the 5 minute warm up drawings. All were done in 5 min. except the bottom facial study which was 10.



20 min. pose



30 min. pose



This last one was 45 minutes.

Digital life drawing!

So I decided to take my Wacom to one of the open life drawing sessions here at Stout. I was doing mostly conte on paper drawings all night, but for the last hour or so, after much frustration with the traditional media, I decided to go digital. Each of the above are 5 minutes poses. There are a few things I like about them, but I'm definitely still feeling out the Wacom. Much to learn...

By far the most glorious mustache known to man...

It's so beautiful.



This was a sketch of my summer roommate Dani. She asked me to draw her sometime this summer, and I told her I would do it, but it wouldn't be pretty. I can't wait to show it to her.



Another recent development for me was a little inkage. It took me 4 years to learn to be impulsive.







And lastly, another summer at Valleyfair has come to a close. It was a great season out there. As usual, it was truly a pleasure to work with some amazing artists. These were a few customers that I snapped pictures of on my last day. I was trying not to hold back, but also trying to nail at least one 100% likeness. I think I came close on one or two of them, but there's lots of room for improvements.