I returned home from Hawaii earlier this week, where I spent Christmas. I made an effort to do a fair amount of sketching on this trip and so I’ll be posting those here. Lots of beach sketches and the like. Here’s the first one, Lifeguard Stand at Kaimana.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, folks. Here are some favorites from a day of life drawing that was full of character. I can’t recall the model’s name, but he was excellent at playing with character. Lots of evocative and humorous stuff. I couldn’t help but keep drawing his face, and found slightly different ways to caricaturize him each time. Lots of fun.
Note, they’re all from the same side of the room, thus the similar angles.
I’ve been pretty busy with work lately, so I haven’t been able to post very often. Here’s a quick sketch of Dave Letterman I just did to try to make up for it. I’ve been a fan of Dave’s since I was a wee lad and staying up late was the real cat’s pajamas. Back when he had all that curly hair.
This is a real character spotted yesterday in Psychobabble Café in Los Feliz. This is only slightly caricaturized and in fact, there were a couple things I could’ve pushed a little further for a more accurate representation. An irresistable draw.
The last of the April Figures and Dynamics series, I promise. Then I’ve got a little stack of post-it doodles to post …it.
More of the whole image with detail(s).
Still not done. I think I should have one more post from the “Dynamics” series after this one. Here are a few more drawings of Clay from Karl Gnass’s drawing seminar. I tried something new with these images, giving you a full drawing and a detail of that drawing in each.
I exaggerated things a little on this last one.
Now here’s a hodge-podge. A quick sketch of the class skeleton, a character doodle, and some anatomy notes squeezed in, alongside a “serious” drawing of Clay.
And a quick portrait sketch I sneaked in between taking notes from Karl.
Well, so I lied. There will be more than two parts to this “Dynamics” series. I’ll just be posting them as I can get them composed into jpegs. These are from the second half of Karl Gnass’s seminar. We had a female model before lunch and a male model after lunch. This is Clay. He’s a lean, mean, modelling machine with lots of definition. Pretty interesting body-type and lots of great poses. More to come…
These are drawings I did in a day-long drawing seminar with Karl Gnass, titled Using the Force: Dynamics of the Figure. The dynamics we concentrated on were, as Karl explained, not the dynamics of Burne Hogarth, which are more about dynamic action poses and drawing the figure with lots of really well-developed muscles all working simultaneously. Perhaps if you’re drawing a superhero lifting a car or a locomotive, it might be appropriate for every muscle to be engaged, but for anyone else you might draw who isn’t a superhero, it’s an unnatural and, in several respects, non-dynamic way of portraying the figure.
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