Art & Story Blog

For a few months now, I’ve been taking figure drawing classes from Karl Gnass, held at the Animation Guild in North Hollywood. Karl tends to throw a lot of ideas at us, which can sometimes make me feel like I am swimming in a turbulent sea when drawing. My sense of stability is ripped apart and there’s nothing but uncertainty as I try to grapple with the many concepts circling my head. However, I am determined to try and grasp at these various concepts, sometimes one or two at a time, even if fleetingly, and to abandon a prior “safer” approach to drawing the figure. At times, the effect can be that I shut down completely and stutter through my drawings and at other times, almost unconciously, some new understanding starts to shine through, even if just a little. It helps to have an inspiring model, too. As you will see in some of the drawings below.