I'm back in Edinburgh for a few months, working as a Clean Up Artist (if you don't know what that is, here's an example) on a feature film I can't talk about yet. It's a really exciting project and I'm looking forward to sharing more about that, hopefully soon. One of...
I spent some time today drawing quick sketches using the Bodies in Motion site. The Muybridge images are especially good for quick studies, and after exploring a variety of sequences I settled on this one.
Here are some more drawings from earlier in the month, with Debbie modelling.
I've been busy with work and a family wedding, so it's taken me a while to post anything new! Here's a group of studies from one of Muybridge's wonderful sequences.
Recently I signed up to Scott Eaton's Bodies in Motion website, which is stuffed to the gills with stunning figure references. The 'Motions' feature sequences of photographs of people dancing, leaping, and fighting. What's lovely about it is that moments of action can...
A couple of weeks ago I watched Jaws for the first time. I'm not a fan of horror, which is one of the reasons I avoided the film for so long, but I found it to be much more of a thriller (with a couple of bloodthirsty scenes). One of the things I really liked was the...
While my sister and brother-in-law were visiting, a neighbour told us where we could watch badgers. I'd always been under the impression they only ventured out at the dead of night, but he assured us that from around 7pm was a good time to see them. After one false...
The first two drawings, in charcoal, are from a workshop on an artists' retreat back in February. It was (just) warm enough to sit outside, though I remember my hands freezing. Both charcoal sketches were drawn half looking at the paper, half looking only at the...
The snow is beginning to melt, leaving icy pools of water and slush. As I struggled through it on a walk this afternoon I thought it would be a good subject for today's study.