Sketches


My first assignment at Animation Mentor was to take sketches in a public place and then pick our favourite sketch to pose our character in Maya.  I'll upload those sketches with the pose this weekend but because the character I'm posing is a fully grown human, I had a bunch of baby sketches in my sketchbook - when you sketch during the day at a shopping park, there are bound to be lots of babies!

The Woman


The idea behind this was to take what I had learned in my recent 'life drawing in colour' classes and put it into some fun/fan art.  I've cropped out half of this drawing though because the proportions of the legs are hella wrong!  I will most definitely try to paint this again and try to come up with a better composition.

Last weeks Life Drawing

A2, gouache and ink, 1 hr

A2, charcoal, warm-up sketch

The last official Life Drawing of the term.  I'll hopefully find the odd class here and there over summer but there won't be any blocks of classes till schools start back in Autumn :(
I've learned loads this term but I've noticed that having spent the last 8 weeks on long poses focusing on colour, all of my short sketches have gone down the pooper!
Can't wait to spend an entire class just drawing with charcoal again but I have really enjoyed painting and getting messy!

Life Drawing

A3, charcoal, warm-up sketch, 2-3mins-ish

This weeks life model was a female body builder! I never managed to finish my colour piece, although I am getting the hang of using gouache.  Hopefully, we'll get this model again and I'll focus on getting some solid drawings rather than worrying about the colour assignments, she gave some great short poses.

Life Drawing

A2, gouache and ink, 1 1/2 hrs

This weeks colour piece was not as disastrous as last weeks but I still felt incredibly out of my comfort zone.  It took a while to build up all the colours on this piece because I didn't have the courage to paint opaquely like you can with gouache, instead I built up layers of washed out colour.

Warm up sketches, 2-3 mins, Charcoal

Life Drawing in Colour

A2, Gouache/charcoal/pastel/chalk, 30 mins

I have never drawn anything like this before.  Everyone in the class had to first under paint their paper and the draw on top of it once it was dry.  It was a really bizarre process of drawing by instinct and balancing the colour, and putting the mark-making first rather than the 'correct' line and observation.  I'm definitely learning lots in this class!

Life Drawing


20 minutes, A2, charcoal and pastel
My first life drawing with colour class! The teacher is easing us into using colour - I even panicked a tiny bit when I first started to lay down a little of that orange/brown colour.  I do try to work with colour OUTSIDE of life drawing but I don't think I've ever used it like this with charcoal.  Fun times ahead!

Animal Drawings & Easter Fun

I've been a bit Easter-daft this year.  The first day that I decide to visit the new lambs of this lambing season, I actually happened to walk in on a ewe going into labour!  It was the grossest and most wonderful thing I've ever seen!  I've been checking in on the lambs so often that the keeper jokingly said that I'm trying to steal them >.>

(Deer)

(Lambs)

(Ewes)

I also made these paper carrots that are filled with mini chocolate eggs.  They were for children at a community crafting class that my sister volunteers for.


Here are the lambs that were born on the 5th of April 2012.  The unfortunate thing was that this ewe gave birth to three lambs but the first one was breached and was just simply too weak to survive.
Here are the same lambs a few days later.  Both mother and lambs are very healthy!

Recent Life Drawing

First life drawing in a while and it was a class with two models so I struggled quite a bit!  Don't think I've ever done a class with two models before... I start a new block of classes soon though, except it's a 'life drawing in colour' class, I've never done that before either but it was the only life drawing available to me for the next two months and I desperately need some classes, plus I'm sure learning how to colour would do me a world of good! It's going to be so difficult, I can tell that now!


Ponyo Paper Art

(Full View Please!!!)

I'm not really sure how long this piece took because I've been working on it on and off again for the past month.  At first, I wanted to mostly use plain papers throughout the piece including the waves.  I tried cutting and layering them without adding any texture but eventually I caved and brought out the acrylics and gouache and not forgetting the glitter.