These drawings are from earlier this month. Another excellent model! I struggled after the break - most of the drawings below are from the first half.
Life Drawing, 24th
I moved in late November last year and it's meant I haven't been to a life drawing class since then. Thankfully earlier this week I was able to go again!
The Life of Birds
Today I attempted some gesture drawing from an episode of The Life of Birds. As I reached the end of Planet Earth II last year I realised I really should have had my sketchbook out. It's good training for cafe gesture drawing, which I'm normally pretty hopeless at. As...
Kinsey’s Sword
A little over a year ago I set myself the challenge of illustrating a short story I'd written. I've posted some concepts and development of these illustrations before, but now I'd like to share a few of the finished drawings. Most of the drawings below are spreads,...
Animation Base Camp – Bee
If you haven’t seen my previous storyboards from the Animation Base Camp, you may want to start here or here. The story revolves around odd-couple animals at a therapist’s office. The scene below, featuring a bee, was worked on by several different people throughout...
Gestures
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.
Animal Gestures
Haven't drawn much in the last few days, so I spent some of my morning doing timed sketches from artists.pixelovely.com [now https://line-of-action.com/] - a great site for gesture practice. These were 30 second drawings.
Character and Story Masterclass
Last month I got to take part in a fantastic two-day masterclass with Wouter Tulp and John Nevarez. On one day we came up with different character poses and situations for someone saying 'Go ahead, I'll wait.'The drawings above were my first rough ideas. I wanted to...
Inktober #2
See my previous Inktober post here. Here are the rest of my Inktober drawings for this year. I missed a couple of days, but otherwise I'm pleased with what I've accomplished. Ink can be very unforgiving, even with a pencil underdrawing. It's been good to try something...








