Last week, I attended a life drawing session where Safire and Andrew held beautiful poses. With three cameras to choose from, I enjoyed capturing the same pose from different angles.
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Costumed Drawing – Maiden
Last week I was finally able to catch the free costumed drawing session CTN is running before it vanished from YouTube! As it's a recording I was able to skip back and forward a bit as I pleased, so though poses were between two and seven minutes I spent less time on...
Character Sketching – Alameda Slim
Last week's CTN On Model sketching session featured Jonnathon as Alameda Slim, the villain from Home on the Range. I've only seen the film once so I don't know the character very well. At first I really struggled to figure out how his head connects to his neck! By the...
Character Sketching – Maleficent
I've admired artists who turned their life drawing sketches into characters for years, but though I've used my drawings as inspiration for characters I've never, until now, drawn a model and drawn a character at the same time. It's tough. But it's fun! With so much...
Gesture Drawing, 5th May
Liat modelled at an amazing gesture drawing session this week. I gave a brief demo on gestures before we began, showing a little of what I've been taught while studying animation. The response to what I shared and to the session as a whole was really positive, much...
Animal Gestures
Some recent sketches. I love how much is shown by the way the rabbit stretches warily across screen, and the relaxed compared to the alert tail of the squirrels. Body language shares so much story. I'd really like to draw more 'story' poses for human characters.
Hand Studies
Recently I've spoken to a few people about their life drawing, and one thing that's kept coming up is hands, feet, and faces. It's really clear when I look at work that has these things missing. They're tough to draw - don't I know it! Sadly, they will still be...
Life Drawing, 4th February
This week our model was Alexa.
Life Drawing, 28th January
Danna modelled at this week's life drawing session. Her poses were often unusual and pretty challenging to draw! I set myself an additional challenge this week of drawing the longer poses in colour. I've done a few digital studies from photographs recently, but it has...