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.

MFA Sketches

I don't know if this is a new program or not, but I attended one of the weekly life drawing sessions that the MFA now hosts on Wednesday evenings. It was really great!

Some two minute sketches:

Then, as tends to happen for me, I was bored of the model and started drawing a couple of the other artists around:

These are shown in the order made: this guy sitting right next to me was very intensely focused and slumped forward, and then a few seats from him was a woman with incredible posture. Then I drew the model's face. Then lower I started to sketch an older woman who stayed bundled up the whole time like she was still outside.

The event was awesome, but yeah, the actual seating isn't so hot. People had nowhere to put their drawing as they worked, and you had these flimsy little foldout seats - so there was a lot of slouching and slumping and odd body language from the artists.

"O HAI"

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

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.

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:

Model sketches

Here's some stuff from last night at the Quincy Art Center's weekly model session. The model kept moving and squirming, so I gave up trying to do anything figurative and made a couple portrait sketches. Then I got bored with that and started drawing some of the other attendees.

"Struggle"

5" x 7". ink.

"Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde"

digital.

Trying some digital "scratchboard" stuff.

"Dan Gurney & Friends"

sketchbook. pencil, marker.

Thanks to last minute word heads-up from my friend Mike, I heard about this local music/sketch event in time to attend. There were four guys on a little stage playing traditional Irish music, rollicking stuff - really quite excellent. I didn't manage to draw all four unfortunately. I tried to warm up by sketching a mug sitting nearby and then got down to it. The time seemed to fly; right when I was starting to loosen up and felt most comfortable drawing, then the whole thing was over(!) You can probably tell the order too: bottom left (mug), bottom right (Sean), top left (Dylan), top right (Dan).

I didn't catch everybody's full name, but the guy top right is Dan Gurney; his dad was in the audience. I would've drawn him too, but didn't have a good view - or so I thought; he drew me! He was incredibly nice, both interesting and interested.

"Sunday's Child"

pencil, then digital.

"Saturday's Child"

pencil, then digital.

"Friday's Child"

pencil, then digital.

"Thursday's Child"

pencil, then digital.
after Wyeth

"Wednesday's Child"

pencil, then digital.

"Tuesday's Child"

pencil, then digital.

"Monday's Child"

pencil, then digital.