Figure Drawing Final Week- Cafe Drawings and Nostalgia

The final week was an excellent one for figure drawing. We focused our efforts on cafe drawings, and quick narrative sketches of people. We also did a couple of twenty-minute poses but only to wrap it all up and compare it with our drawing from the beginning of the semester. I can't help but feel that I've definitely improved. Can't wait for next semester!

Observational Drawings

 drawn in cafes, Burger Kings, and figure studios.

 

Nostalgia: Before and After

 This disproportionate lady was drawn the first day of Figure Drawing. Note the freakishly tiny hands.

Here's the figure from our last class. Not too bad a drawing for a stressed-out sleep-deprived zombie.

Updated 2D Final

The final project was interesting: we had to make an abstract grayscale picture that employed all the design concepts we'd been learning about. In the second half of the project we had to make a colored representational picture using the abstract piece as a base.

  

The big bad overlay project

In figure class we've been studying and observing the anatomy of the figure.

For the overlay project we had to choose two base drawings-one of the front and one of the back-and draw a skeleton and a muscular system on separate layers.

I did these in two nights... not something I'd recommend. 

Overlay numero uno:

 Overlay numero dos:

4shortening + cafe drawings!

Here's some of my better work from the past week. Lots of figure drawings dealing with foreshortening and some cafe class/DPSC drawings I did in my free time. 

Cafe drawings:

Drawn in 2D design (during free time!)
Medium: pen, light copic marker

No, he really doesn't have a hook for a hand.
When people fidget around, I have to make up things for them.

Figure Drawings:

His scapula... 9__9

Our model had the most fantastic tattoo that wraps around her hip and abdomen. So much fun to draw!

2D Projects: Analogous and Complementary

Here's some of the projects from my 2D Design class dealing with color and abstraction:

Analogous Colors

Complementary Colors/Abstraction 

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I quite like working with abstraction and color and all that. It's so fun and spontaneous!

Ringring Doodles

Here's a few friends (and a self-portrait) I drew all cartoony and stuff. Guess who!

hint: note the sunglasses

DAT BOOTY

Ringling Portfolio

This is the stuff I submitted to Ringling for the Computer Animation program.

Figure Drawings and Observational Drawings:

Paintings:

"Cassowary" (watercolor) 

"Fractured Vase" (oil)

"Walk to Nowhere" (oil)

"Nature" (watercolor)

 An anatomical study of my character Swampy:

Digital sculpting made with Mudbox:

Ta daaaa!

ranting

I've been thinking about a storyline for quite some time now.

I've mostly been working on the development of this idea--the world, the characters, their design, that kind of thing. This idea is fairly important to me because it's the first time I've consciously centered a story around an actual theme or idea. Usually when it comes to story ideas I draw out stuff, and if something stands out as particularly interesting I develop a story around it, drawing my own conclusions about what themes it will lean towards as time goes on.

For this story--still unnamed--I was inspired by Carl Jung's theories on the two sides of the brain, and how they have affected human civilization and culture throughout the years. This story is about two very different cultures interacting in an increasingly dangerous environment. I'm going to post some of my earlier sketches soon.

stay tuned.

Ringling figure drawings & Illest of Ill sketches!

Here's a few figure drawings I managed to take pictures of. Each of these are 40 minutes.

Last Friday we went to the Illest of Ill opening night. It was an amazing opportunity to look at the work of upperclassmen and meet new people. Casmer wanted our class to get a few cafe drawings in so here's the results.

Yes, the event was 20's themed.

I apologize for the bad quality of the pictures-- I just wanted to get something posted!