My first drawing session after Christmas, and I was quite rusty ... it took me a while to warm up. We had a break just as I was beginning to feel I could draw again!
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Life Drawing, December 2017
What with packing up and moving across most of the country and Christmas and New Year, it's taken me a while to post some of my life drawing sketches from December. Here's a selection!
Life Drawing … with Dog
Janey was the life model at this Tuesday's session, and she brought her dog along! It was fun to do quick gestures of the dog while also capturing her lovely poses.
Life Drawing, October 31st
Andy was modelling at this week's life drawing. He held some great poses, including one where he played the guitar. As he was actually playing the guitar rather than pretending to, I feel the final drawing has real movement.
Doodle
A few weeks ago I began working as a character and storyboard artist on an animated feature film called Spiked. I've been drawing a lot but of course I'm not able to share what I'm working on yet, so here's a little doodle I drew today!
Historical Fashion
One of the last times I was up in Edinburgh I sketched these at the museum in Chambers Street. Though I took no notes on colour at the time, thankfully National Museums Scotland has a searchable database - it's fantastic for research.
Climb Ev’ry Mountain
While watching The Sound of Music again recently I was struck by the scene where Mother Abbess sings 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain'. I decided to do a tone/composition study because the lighting and cinematography of the scene is so lovely. When Maria enters the room, it's...
Statue Sketch
I liked this bust of George Roberts, Provost of Selkirk in the 1800s, and had to draw it.
Animation Workshops
Recently I taught some animation workshops for groups of mainly high school aged children and youth. This is the first time I've taught animation in any depth, though I ran one workshop on pixelation a few years ago. My main goal was to give a basic framework for...