Another sketch for Life Drawing.
Actual size about 1.5 feet tall (second shot for scale). Medium – 4H
graphite pencil, mechanical pencil (2B 0.5mm lead), and 0.5mm
ball-point pen (black).
Graphite pencil used for layout, mechanical pencil for shading/hair, and ball-point for line work.
I’m starting to like mixing mediums, especially ball-point for the detail work.
“Don’t leave me high.”
This is a two-minute sketch using charcoal stick – to scale, about two
feet tall. My primary objective was to capture the entirety of the
human form and the overall gesticulation. In a stroke of luck (call it
a good day), I found a delineation that was to my liking, especially
the upper hand. Not to flaunt my well-crafted ego, but for those of you
that have
taken life drawing, you can recognize the glory in this.
“Fool enough to almost be it…”
Project – drawing based on personal interpretation of the following passage:
The Colonel (From The Country Between Us, by Carolyn Forche.)
What you have heard is true. I
was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His
daughter filed her nails, his son went out for the night. There were
daily papers, pet dogs, a pistol on the cushion beside him. The moon
swung bare on its black cord over the house. On the television was a
cop show. It was in English. Broken bottles were embedded in the walls
around the house to scoop the kneecaps from a man’s legs or cut his
hands to lace. On the windows there were gratings like those in liquor
stores. We had dinner, rack of lamb, good wine, a gold bell was on the
table for calling the maid. The maid brought green mangoes, salt, a
type of bread. I was asked how I enjoyed the country. There was a brief
commercial in Spanish. His wife took everything away. There was some
talk then of how difficult it had become to govern. The parrot said
hello on the terrace. The colonel returned with a sack used to bring
groceries home. He spilled many human ears on the table. They were like
dried peach halves. There is no other way to say this. He took one of
them in his hands, shook it in our faces, dropped it into a water
glass. It came alive there. I am tired of fooling around he said. As
for the rights of anyone, tell your people they can go fuck themselves.
He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of the
wine in the air. Something for your poetry, no? he said. Some of the
ears on the floor caught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears on
the floor were pressed to the ground.
Medium = Conté on charcoal.
Inked this dragon at work the other day. Apologies for the crap
photography, but I had to take these on the fly since I didn’t have
time to finish it. Basically, the only thing worth noting on this one
is the heavy outlining I tried for a sort of layering
effect – mostly around the flames and such. Had I more time, I would’ve
fleshed out the black areas, extending them in both top and bottom.
Day Two. (See previous post.)
I basically improvised the shading as per this panther. Heavily stylized, about 5 hours total.
Angled closeup:
Watching Naruto
and did a few quick sketches. For those of you who’ve seen the anime,
there’s a certain artist whose work is very distinct (think Hokage
melee or Sasuke vs. Orochimaru – first encounter). I’ve been a fan ever
since I can remember, primarily for the way he exaggerates his
character poses and facial expressions. Coupled with the oblique camera
shots, this makes for some good gestural drawing source material.
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