Figures, drawn.

Ok my spirits are higher this week. It's one of those rare weeks where the illusion of progress seems just that little bit more convincing. Pastels are my friends. For now...
3 mins ok

Big boobs...

Nice lines...

She's not THAT old

More nice lines...

Must draw more... nice... lines.

Weekly figure drawing

This week we did the usual warm ups but 2 long hour poses. I used a mix of grey pastel and charcoal pencil on white A2...



Attention drawn once again to my fear of big heads..



Couldn't draw the whole hour. I always feel like I'm over-working them. Now I look again and they seem unfinished. Grrrr.

Still life with impending doom

Figures drawing

A frustrating session this week. Too much bullshit on my mind...

3 min warm ups (pastel)

30 min (pencil)

30 min (pastel)

25 min (pencil)

Figure drawing

My mind is tired.

3 min each

25 min

10 min

25 min

25 min (all on A2...)

Her face was quite masculine.

Drawn a blank.

Figure drawing

I had to leave the class early this week for work.
Just did the 3 mins...

And a half hour or so,

Uncle for a year

The twin nephews are turning one soon, so for their birthday I drew them this pic to be mounted at A1 on their bedroom wall.

My sister has a weird Peter Rabbit fascination, so I figured the less expression on the bunnies the better.



This is them at 7 months, Ryan on top, Mathew (not Matthew) bottom.

Lil terrors!

Singles club

Some work I been meaning to post up, following on from the Album artwork I created for New Academics last year.
The first single was called Fuzz...

The second, 4 a.m...

Thursday figure drawing

After a couple of weeks absence, I returned today to find the class a lot busier. Though I'm still pretty much the only person under 40, other than the belly dancer.


Charcoal and white pencils:



Then she lay down again and all I could see was her foot, so I left.

Drawing in public in secret.

On a recent visit to the airport, while sitting at Fourno's waiting for my flight, I dared to wop out my ballpoint pen and small A6 moleskine sketchbook. I carry them around in hope that I'll put them to use in these situations, but rarely work up the nerve.

These aren't wonderful, but they're a testament of some progressive inner struggle.



These two really did look miffed.

I think he saw me.

Hopefully if I just keep at it, eventually I'll feel a lot more comfortable wopping it out in public.

More figure drawing

It seems all I ever draw now is women once a week. Drew a belly dancer this week. She had great form. The accessories also made a change...

3 min: Was feeling good:

25 min: One of my favourites to date:

30 min: Not bad:

30 min: A bit awkward. I was avoiding the weird angle of the head:

The last angle wasn't worth drawing, so I left early. What good is a belly dancer lying down anyway?

Thursday figure drawing

rHmmm.

Only two warm-ups because I was late for class this week. Mugg & Bean (won't say which one) were slow on my order. And they buggered it. Every week I go in there and order the same thing: Americano with cold milk and one sugar, a Cappuccino with one sugar for the old lady that runs the class, and a lemon poppyseed muffin (which strangely seem to be getting smaller each time they go up in price) to take away. I always make them write it down. It's never right. I think it's because they don't reckon it's their job to add the milk and sugar. That's supposed to be my job. Fuck that shit. I'm in a hurry.

3 min...





25 min each:





Wasn't my best. Thanks Mugg!

There's a first (and a last) time for everything.

Goddammit, I'm running seriously short of content lately. Music is consuming most of my spare time. Drawing is taking a back seat. These things happen I guess. I do still need to find some shit to post tho...

I created this portrait of Christopher Walken back in college. Two weeks of stippling with 0.5 and 0.25 mm technical pens on A3ish Crescent board. Something I'll probably never bring myself to do again.


Closer to actual size:

Almost killed me.

Thursday figures

Big girls are great to draw.

3min warmups

45 min slow

30 min

30 min

Still trying to deal with my ginormonogginophobia.

It's a small world after all

Chronic seed

Coarse carpet

Matchbox

Chronic bud

Ex-small flying bug...

All taken with my happy snappy Nikon Coolpix through a magnifying glass. Cropped for effect with some levelling here and there...

Figure drawing.

A little rusty after a 4 week absence. Why does work always seem to get in the way?

3 min...

10 min (I had to pop back home to let the maid in and pick up my fixative)

20 - 25 min.

Painted with light, she dropped her keys.

Another dance move to fire people by.

This one can be a little tricky.

Don't look at me like that