Cactii

Not sure why there was a sudden influx of cactus drawings and I'm not sure why I haven't drawn any lately; but here are some cactus drawings as well as a few odds and ends I scanned in the other day. I've got another stack somewhere that I've got to scan in too! Yehaw.

Above from reference

Odds and Ends and Odds

Been a lazy scanner lately, just went through a massive stack. Here's the first volume, and I expect to have more ready in a week or so.

Gesture sketches

Been hitting up the U of U's Saturday session lately, been so long since I've done figure drawing let alone gestures. Makes me happy. Anyhow, most of these are 5's with some 2's mixed in. Funny that when I go over 5 they get really bad...

Viva Los Angeles! Viva Nathan Fowkes! Viva Drawnight!

I flew to L.A. over an extended weekend for a much needed mini-vacation. Attending an art workshop taught by Nathan Fowkes (Blog 1, Blog 2) was the perfect excuse to get away. Many thanks to my buddy Philip Vose for being my gracious and generous host and thanks to Jason Boesch for hanging out. It was also really great to meet so many other awesome artists at Disney Feature as well as the workshop itself.

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Anyhow, first up are the workshop paintings.

After the lecture and demonstration we started with quick abstract color studies using the color from the model in front of us; good lord it had been so long since I had painted traditionally. Took me awhile to get warmed up.

Then the idea was to take what we learned from the abstracts into a more representational color sketch, again the focus was on color and not drawing or detail.

With the remaining time we were given the choice of more studies or a more finished study, I opted for the latter. Still a color study but a little more emphasis on drawing and detail.

I couldn't recommend the workshop more. I was incredibily impressed with Mr. Fowke's knowledge and ease at which he conveyed it. He answered the hard questions and even the silly questions expertly. Needless to say, I've found my much needed inspiration and refreshment. :)

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I had some time to kill at Los Angeles International before my flight home, been too long since I've drawn from life as well; need to fix that.

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Lastly, some thumbnails from the past few drawnights. Still a focus on structures, in part to strengthen a weakness and in part because it's a good change from when I work with more organic and natural subjects all day at work.

Mirrored in Photoshop ;)

Tewsday

Tonight's battle of graphite and sushi amongst friends, comrades and one robot ninja.
Only 4 tonight, decided I really need to buck up and draw more buildings. I need practice :)

Pancakes sans Waffle, A Series of Misdemeanors

Here is some recent drawnight shtuff :)

Drawnight, Meeting doodles and Color Comps

First one started out in acrylics. Was focused on nothing more than getting a better feel for the medium really. Still though, thought it would be fun to play with a little more digitally and then go back in acrylics to see what I could do.

I've really been enjoying pencil and have been doing the majority of my work in them lately.

Playing with some more efficient ways of conceptualizing as well, you'll see a few color comps mixed in with these thumbs (well, I've been doing the majority of my sketches lately just shy of A4). Really quick gradients and blocks of color; I've really been wanting to focus more on concepts and ideas more than technique and rendering lately as it's a definite weak point of mine.

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Oh, you all should check out One Swoop Fell
It's a comic I'm loving done by a friend, Mr. Mike Dutton.
Tell him he should make a book already ok?