Better, me thinks

This drawing was starting to come together and I had high hopes for it when, you guessed it, that dreaded timer dashed my hopes and dreams f...

Eh...

Honestly, not sure what happened here.  Again, I got caught up in specifics and just, well, failed miserably.  I was trying to get her right...

Huddled

I was thinking along the lines of the strong core shadows that Steve Huston described and proceeded from there.  Not enough time for me, aga...

Just being a lazy @$$

Thanks to my oldest and bestest pal, Russ (illustrator extraordinaire whom you've seen mentioned in these august virtual pages before) I...

Frustration...

can be so frustrating .  Of the ten gesture poses last night these are the only two that were worth a spit.  I believe I forgot how to draw ...

Construction

I ran across this drawing of a former regular model of ours and thought that it shows what I really enjoy sometimes, the structure of the fi...

Another collage... sort of

This is another of those pages with multiple images that I always find so interesting. Just a series of small, insignificant drawings that ...

Pensive

This particular piece is several years old and is one of my favorite models, although she has been unavailable for some time now. We occasio...

Something old

A bad day.  Sorry for the late post.  This is a shot from the past.  Not sure when or who the model is but I like the head on this and the g...

One last look

Another Sunday, another day in the NFL.  Aahhh, it's all good. Art?  Let me dig around and see what I have...  one last look at Jeff, a...

Lessons from Steve

Huston, that is.  I recently picked up a copy of Artists Workshop and was reading the article on Steve Huston and gesture drawing.  More acc...

This is odd...

As a person of habits it's strange to sit down at the keyboard and not have a new batch of drawings to post on a Friday.  So I'll ju...

Vegas, Baby

Been hangin' out in Vegas for the International Furniture Market at the World Market Center.  Lots of walking around and meetings and lo...

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!

Ah, the crisp, cool mornings that greet us here in the West as football season descends from above like manna from heaven.  Oh sure,  colleg...

Two fer One

I did the one on the right first and wasn't too pleased so I thought the next one would probably be in the same mode.  Now I wish I had ...

The return of the Sculptor

Our model, Jeff, did a great job as always.  Let's start with gestures, shall we?  I just picked up a magazine with an article on Steve ...

Profile

The only drawing I was mostly satisfied with.  I think the mood one is in really affects the quality of the work.  I know it shouldn't b...

A detour today

I'll get back to the final life drawing of the last session tomorrow. I just thought I'd show the latest drawings off of my board. ...

A little better, methinks

Again, the head shot saves my bacon.  I actually like the high(ish) definition of the head and the relative ambiguity of the figure here.  T...

Uh...

Last drawing of the night.  Looking forward to having some beer with some friends.  Looks like I already had some beer with some friends.  S...

Another in the same vein

A similar drawing to the one yesterday.  Must have been in a mood.  I started with the right arm and built the image from there.  But for so...

Hanging at the Manor

With the prominent mustache, thick eyebrows and heavy black hair, it's easy to overemphasize the head and face of this particular model,...

The next session

I had to leave during the gesture phase of our session so this is as close as I got to the gesture page. I don't have much to say today...

Last of this session

Another profile.  Not much else left to say.  I think this one works well enough.  New session will post tomorrow.

Incomplete head shot

But that's the game, isn't it.  When Dave shouts out "Time" the pose ends and we move on.  Too bad, this one had potential...

profile

Another profile, this time of just the head.  I put a little more thought into this drawing and stayed with the style that I am comfortable ...