Life Drawing
A3, charcoal, warm-up sketch, 2-3mins-ish
This weeks life model was a female body builder! I never managed to finish my colour piece, although I am getting the hang of using gouache. Hopefully, we'll get this model again and I'll focus on getting some solid drawings rather than worrying about the colour assignments, she gave some great short poses.
Life Drawing
A2, gouache and ink, 1 1/2 hrs
This weeks colour piece was not as disastrous as last weeks but I still felt incredibly out of my comfort zone. It took a while to build up all the colours on this piece because I didn't have the courage to paint opaquely like you can with gouache, instead I built up layers of washed out colour.
Warm up sketches, 2-3 mins, Charcoal
Life Drawing
A3, marker pen, 2 mins
I really struggled in last nights class, which is why I'm only posting this warm-up sketch from it! The colour drawings I did seriously look like I regurgitated a box pastels onto paper. >.> Hopefully it was just an 'off' night, although I did feel really out of my comfort zone X3
Life Drawing in Colour
A2, Gouache/charcoal/pastel/chalk, 30 mins
I have never drawn anything like this before. Everyone in the class had to first under paint their paper and the draw on top of it once it was dry. It was a really bizarre process of drawing by instinct and balancing the colour, and putting the mark-making first rather than the 'correct' line and observation. I'm definitely learning lots in this class!
Life Drawing
20 minutes, A2, charcoal and pastel
My first life drawing with colour class! The teacher is easing us into using colour - I even panicked a tiny bit when I first started to lay down a little of that orange/brown colour. I do try to work with colour OUTSIDE of life drawing but I don't think I've ever used it like this with charcoal. Fun times ahead!
Animal Drawings & Easter Fun
I've been a bit Easter-daft this year. The first day that I decide to visit the new lambs of this lambing season, I actually happened to walk in on a ewe going into labour! It was the grossest and most wonderful thing I've ever seen! I've been checking in on the lambs so often that the keeper jokingly said that I'm trying to steal them >.>
(Deer)
(Lambs)
(Ewes)
I also made these paper carrots that are filled with mini chocolate eggs. They were for children at a community crafting class that my sister volunteers for.
Here are the lambs that were born on the 5th of April 2012. The unfortunate thing was that this ewe gave birth to three lambs but the first one was breached and was just simply too weak to survive.
Here are the same lambs a few days later. Both mother and lambs are very healthy!
Recent Life Drawing
First life drawing in a while and it was a class with two models so I struggled quite a bit! Don't think I've ever done a class with two models before... I start a new block of classes soon though, except it's a 'life drawing in colour' class, I've never done that before either but it was the only life drawing available to me for the next two months and I desperately need some classes, plus I'm sure learning how to colour would do me a world of good! It's going to be so difficult, I can tell that now!
A few People's Palace sketches
The quick sketch below was of a class re-enacting a suffragette protest INSIDE the Winter Gardens, it was so random >.>
Also, I've decided I'm going to up load sketches and WIP stuff more frequently onto my Tumblr, so please check it out! http://szekeiho.tumblr.com/
Summerlee Sketch
Quick sketch at Summerlee Industrial museum. That's me getting back into more location drawing again, I can't quite brave the cold yet but Summerlee was a place that I hadn't been to since I was really wee. Once it warms back up again or atleast not freezing cold then I'll go back to draw around the builing, it's a great building.
Ponyo Paper Art
(Full View Please!!!)
Dancer
I managed to take a one-off drawing class the other day where we got to draw a group of young ballet dancers doing bar exercises. I didn't get as many solid drawings as I would have liked to as the class was very much aimed at folk who hadn't had much experience with life drawing, so we did a lot of expressive exercises where the outcomes were meant to be quite abstract. It was still a fun class though! a nice change from your typical life drawing classes where the model sits on a stool for two hours.
Miniature Sushi
I make these things just for fun. Each piece of Sushi is approximately 1cm long and they are made from polymer clay. I upload this sort of stuff mostly on my deviantArt.