Offstage

At class today the teacher grabbed my stomach in and pushed my back straight a couple of times. If only she could sit there whilst I'm hunched crookedly over my wacom tablet, reminding me 8 hours a day, my posture might actually improve.

Utopia sketches

So, I watched the whole thing on Channel 4 the past 6 weeks. Considering the endless slurry of unimaginative reality TV, this was something to be excited about. I was not let down in the slightest. Check it out if you're not of a slightly sensitive disposition.

Anyway, I did some quick drawings of Jessica and Arby. Gunna try and do the others another evening.

Life Drawing

Started a new job recently at a lovely studio called Blue Zoo. Got invited to a life drawing class after work and these are a couple of the results. Was ridiculously out of practice doing it 'live' as such, and with charcoal. But it was great seeing other people's stuff, quite inspiring. Definitely need to make it a regular thing.

And yes, in case you were unsure, he did look like a retired 70s porn star.

Squishy dragons

Continuing from my little painting I'm working on did these sketches. A little bit Pete's dragon, but I like her ears.

Used Sketchbook Pro for the first time in a while. It's true though, you do get a better line with it. Should use it way more for drawing.

WIP

So I'm really stoked to be doing some storyboard work for 4 weeks starting Monday. It's at a new place and I'm looking forward to getting my teeth in.

In preparation, thought I'd start getting my hand in and do a lot more drawing. Was thinking about how my niece can't read yet but she seems perfectly happy to sit with a book and start making up her own story.

Really happy with where it's going, definitely going to finish this properly.

Rite of Spring

Left this rough, as usual, because not really sure what else to do with it.

I was inspired by the way people are drawn on Ancient Greek vases, with the really exaggerated muscles and defining lines. I also was trying to keep it raw-looking because of the theme. How do you make something look raw but finished?
Still had fun doing it though, might try do some more grungy stuff.

Skulls

Yes, it's been a long time again. Was on a job at work for a while that involved a lot of drawing and I just didn't fancy doing any more when I got home.

Also got back into dancing again, it's very nice to do something other than looking at a screen after a long day. I wanted to try do something arty based on the Rite of Spring, so I just did a warm up of a couple of deer skulls (sort of pagan artefacty?)

Line one did in about 5 minutes just to get an idea of what was going on, then did an attempt trying to just describe the shape with shading. Might go a bit more avant-garde for my actual drawing, in the spirit of things. Always nice to try and draw accurately when you're getting back into things though.