These Inigo Montaya gesture drawings from a The Princess Bride-inspired All In Gesture class were challenging, but perhaps not in the way you expect. I found Inigo's hair to be the most difficult thing to draw ... I felt I captured this character more closely than...
As I look back at 2024 one of my regrets is failing to continue designing The Wait - and other personal projects. The Wait is a mini graphic novel I've been working at for a long while now. Back when Sputnik: Faith + Arts gave me a small grant to work on character...
After a bit of a break from drawing, this was a good (but difficult) way to start again! I was just starting to figure King Triton out by the time the session ended ...
With all there is to do pre-Christmas I've fallen a bit behind with All In Gesture. The class inspired by Jacob Marley was a fun way to catch up! Now I'm off to watch The Muppet Christmas Carol ...
Sketching Hipster Santa (or Hipster Father Christmas) was an interesting way to start Advent!
I've been working on a mini graphic novel project for a while (you may remember this, this and this) and recently I've been doing a lot of research into clothing. It's set around 1300 but much of it falls into 'vaguely medieval'. There are very few source materials...
I loved this class. Lots of wonderful (and challenging) poses from Ralph!
For this session I chose to draw digitally, just to shake things up. I like getting away from the screen every once in a while, but sometimes it's hard to adjust to real media given I spend almost all my time drawing onto my Cintiq. Ralph was a fantastic model! I...
I struggled a lot in this class and was only beginning to warm up by the end. The variety of emotions and poses was good fun! In my head I was imagining Legolas at various ages - young and slightly pensive to older and battle-experienced.