Saturday Life Drawing ... blah

It was one long pose during Saturday's life drawing session. Below is my second try ... not too happy with it. I made her head a little too big, and her face should be thinner. Her facial features look a little funky to me. Better luck next week ...

Saturday Life Drawing ... Second Week

The more I look at these, the less I like them ...


I like parts of this one, but one thing I'm struggling with is getting the whole figure rendered. I'm not drawing fast enough, and I find myself concentrating on details before I get the whole figure drawn. Still, I kinda like the lower half ... feet can be fun to draw.


Again, I like parts of this ... I finally did a decent job on a hand, but it's not fully rendered. I think there are some funky things going on in the left leg, and I would have liked to get the head in there, but again, I took too much time focusing on little bits instead of getting the whole figure. Same story with the one below.


I think part of my problem lies in just getting my hand skills sharp. I need to practice more at home just drawing myself. But at least I'm drawing regularly now. I'd like to be posting stuff at least twice a week though.

No Dollar Signs

So I dug out my old piece of shit computer and scanned the stuff from yesterday and today. Feels like I've got a long way to go, but it's a start.

Page from yesterday ... with dollar signs

Here's a page from the coffee shop yesterday. The only thing I dare post as the rest was complete garbage. My old scanner isn't compatible with Vista, so I had to download this scanner software that puts watermarks all over your images unless you buy it. I might need to hook up my old computer as this laptop has none of the software I need.

I'll post some stuff from today's life drawing session at the Art/Not Terminal Gallery when I figure out the scanner situation.

First Drawing Day

Back to the drawing board ... fucking literally.

Today I walked to my neighborhood Caffe Ladro and drew in my sketchbook ... and fucking yikes.

I knew the first day wasn't going to be pretty, and holy shit, was it ever rough. I've got a lot of work to do. It really hurts seeing the crap I'm currently capable of, but I'm determined to get back to where I was.

The good news is that the shit state I'm in has forced me to come up with a real plan to climb out of this funk.

I hope by maintaining this blog and posting my progress, I'll be forced to set some time aside everyday to just sit and draw. I'll be posting life drawing, self-portraits, concepts for an indie video game project and original cartoons for a comic I want to develop.

It'll be basic and low-tech ... no digital paintings, maybe some animations later down the road, but for now just pencils and pen and ink on paper. Hopefully after I've worked on this blog a while, I'll be able to get a revamped online portfolio up. Until then, my portfolio presence online is kaput.

So ... I gotta dig my scanner out and hope I can find a Vista driver for it. If not, I'll do my scanning from work.

I'm gonna try to go the Art/Not Terminal drawing session tomorrow morning. I'm ready for the pain.

Peace.