I think I found my Favourite black pencil!

This is a page of studies done from Stephen Silver's Passion for life sketchbook. Stephen Silver has a style of deforming the human figure which appeals to me a lot! But as I tried to loosely copy the drawings, I lost track of the structure and thus my studies look like absolute crap!

But on the bright side, I was workin in black pencil, which i rarely do lately. But this was a new pencil I got as a sample from a workshop at SCAD last quarter. And despite my very loose light hand, the marks came out very dark. And I like that about it. Bolder marks have something of a commitment and confidence to them. Anyways, That's all for now. Off to my Drawing for Storyboarding class with Benjamin Phillips!

Finally got time to post some more

Yay! The quarter ended! These are from a few weeks ago. But I promise more recent stuff is coming soon.

long overdue

More gestures from class

These are done on 24x36 newsprint pads.

Character design from life drawing

QEP event gestures

Crouch

My dying Brush Pen

Two in one

I just decided to scan the sketchbook lying flat to get both the sides.

One leg and stick

Gesture again

This one is from the first 2 week of classes. Before Jan 21st is the best I can do with date. It was done using brush pen on 24x36 newsprint pad. Selected by Sherran Deems.

Changing gears

This is a longer drawing done over the course of two weeks. Two models posed separately and had to be incorporated in one finished piece. The end result was surprising even to me.
I did a rather big drawing of the female lying down in portrait orientation. This because last time, I had done a smaller full figure drawing of the standing female in this piece and ended up with quite a lot of negative space.
But I had not anticipated the model for the next week to be on the bigger side. I was now faced with a challenge of how much of her do I want to incorporate, and where. I went ahead with what you see here, mostly disappointed with the result the first half of the session. I was encouraged by a classmate Lisa. And I walked out of the class feeling like I had succeeded in pulling this one out of the gutter in the end.

The result, Sherran Deems said looked like something Philip Pearlstein would paint.

Two more

I am posting two more gestures to compensate for yesterday, the day I missed.

This second drawing is actually in the correct orientation. The model did this hand stand kind of thing where his whole body was resting on his feet and palm. supercool.

Leaning on the stick

Another one that the figure drawing teacher picked out. I'm not too fond of it tho.

Bounce back

Yes, I have just bounced back from a bout of cold. Shouldn't have gotten wet in the rain. Nevermind.

I shall now start posting more gestures from the weekend homework assignment.
I took my little sketchbook to open model session on Friday. And these drawings were the ones selected by Sherran Deems.

Midterms week keeping me busy

So just one quick update today. Maybe more regular posting next week onwards.

Run for it

Done from a bus as I saw another student running to catch the bus. I look at it and go it does not look very exaggerated like a running cartoon.
I think I know why. The student was also carrying a backpack that probably weighed him down a little and prevented him from running a little more actively.

One more from the horizontal Brush pen series

Done at one of the MILAAP dance practice sessions.

Horizontal Brush Pen technique

I read about using a brush pen like a conte instead of like a brush to draw gestures and this was one of my first attempts. The wide horizontal surface of the brush ended up giving the drawing a little lumpy feel as my lines were not as thin and streamlined.

Put your hip into it