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Face Studies

Face Studies

These drawings are from last week, but it took me until now to cherry-pick the best to upload. They're all studies from Bodies in Motion; most of them are of neutral expressions but some of the short poses (between 30 seconds and 2 minutes) were of a variety of...

Ballet Studies

Ballet Studies

More studies from the Bodies in Motion website! I began with some 30 second sketches, all of which were very rough so I haven't uploaded any of them. Next I went through one of the motions spending a minute on every drawing. Finally I spent quite a long time on a...

Fabric and Model

Fabric and Model

Last week I went to a show of students' work where Katrina Ellis, a weaver and life model, modelled with some of her fabric. It was fun, and challenging, to draw.

Dancer Studies

Dancer Studies

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...

Studies from Jaws

Studies from Jaws

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...

Badgers in the Borders

Badgers in the Borders

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...

Pigeon

Pigeon

While boarding the Pigeon Crumbs animatic I posted a few weeks ago I drew these reference sketches and character models to help me figure out how the character would look, feel and act.

Elsa Gestures

Elsa Gestures

My dog is notoriously difficult to photograph, let alone draw. This afternoon I managed to capture her in the garden as she munched on a very old tennis ball and an offcut from someone's fence.