MFA Sketches

More sketches from the life drawing at the MFA.

The second face from the left is the model; the rest are other folks that were also drawing.

"Train Guy"

A sketch of a person I saw on the platform at Ashmont station, waiting for the next train.

He was first leaning against a pillar and made this cascade of strong horizontals that caught my eye.

Nominally, he was dressed in: boots, jeans, a t-shirt, a pea coat, a knit cap, sunglasses and a scarf - a list of items other men were wearing on the train as well, almost exactly - but his presentation was extremely different and unique.

I was not surprised to see him on the train later reading an issue of Vogue; he put together his outfit rather deliberately.

This kind of casual, everyday character design is impressive to me.

"O HAI"

Just took in a new cat at home; feline politics is tricky business!

"Caldonia"

Couldn't sleep - pushing pixels against insomnia!

"Bozo"

Picked one of those previous face sketches to continue a little further, digitally:

Faces

Some things :) Also a couple little bitty pachyderms, because why not.

"Centaur" and "Mermaid"

These are two images to help me get back into the mood for finishing a comic I'd started a while ago. It involves a centaur and a mermaid, and so.

~8"x8". pencil.

~5"x9". gouache.

"Red Jasper"

~5"x7". gouache on chipboard.

Something I made to show students tomorrow: an example for painting on colored surfaces; in this case letting the surface be the middle tone for the subject.

Faces

Here are some sketched faces. I started to paint over one digitally.

That bottom right face is from a character I depicted back in 2007 when I was learning about digital painting. That older image was a self-assigned exercise, so I didn't finish it beyond the parts I was most interested in rendering.

I sketched the face from memory, and got some of the details wrong, but recalled the main design idea.

Thinking about digital painting stuff; sketching and moving pencil work into digital.

Sketches

After work I met with my friend who also teaches and we went to campus to hear this talk that was being held.

We got there an hour early and sketched in the cafeteria for a bit. I drew a couple students, then drew The Yellow Kid.

Watercolor is a lovely tool to use with sketching. And I enjoy portraiture very much.

Catching up

Here's a bunch of stuff I've made that I've been meaning to upload. In no particular order:

A couple faces made when trying out drawing into my iPad:

A random object I made as an exercise. I made the black outline shape first as a scribble. Then I carved into it with the eraser tool, and rotated it a few times to help see the possibilities. Then I finished it as a solid, describing the interior features:

A preliminary sketch for something still in progress:

Some sketches and gestural stuff from attending the monthly Dr.Sketchy's life drawing sessions. I sometimes draw the model, and sometimes draw the other people attending:

Other model stuff:

Some logo stuff for friends:

A spaceship, meant for an alien witch! So it's sort of a mix of a broomstick and a shuttlecraft:

A 30-min sketch of The Masque of The Red Death:

Another 30-min sketch for a robot thing:

I was commissioned to make a custom bookcover for a Kickstarter project, the person who gave a enough money to qualify received an image of their choosing (so this isn't my imagery/character design, etc):

And some furry stuff, made as illustrations for a convention booklet:

"Variants"

digital.

Combined the silhouettes of a horse, a couple fire hydrants and a smoking pipe; then I worked into the result to get some different designs.

Art Stuff

Haven't been keeping this up, but I have been keeping busy.

Here's some stuff:

"Dwudley" 8" x 10". watercolor, gouache, acrylic. Made for a friend of mine.

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"Model" ~10" x 11". gouache, watercolor. Observed from a two-hour pose. I didn't get the model's name.

The painting group I was a part of ended shortly after this, ah well.

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"Matador" digital.

Some character design work from an illustration project I'm in the middle of.

"Swansea: Crew"

digital.

Some character design stuff.
Crewbie, Matey, and Captain

"Dancing"

pencil, digital.

Made for a friend of mine who makes music.

"Queequeg"

~5.5" x 10". watercolor.

I'm re-reading Moby Dick for the first time as an adult. Just now finished Chapter 3, which introduces Queequeg and is one of the most entertaining stand-alone reads in American literature :)

"Clausbot9000"

ink, digital.

Corgis Makin' Bank

Corgis Makin' Bank, a set on Flickr.

Made a small series of gouache paintings of corgis, referencing various aspects of early 90's hip-hop culture.

The first image is more or less related, though made a year earlier.