Here are some more practice faces. This time, some are from photoes of Afghan refugees (taken from the internet) and others are from photoes I took in Pakistan in 2005. These are drawn straight in ink and then painted.
December 30, 2006
December 29, 2006
Peshawari Faces
So, I’m back to working on faces again. Here are a few Peshawari faces from some great photoes I found on flickr. I prefer to work from life, but capturing a likeness is going to require some stillness. See if you can figure out who’s who. These are all really quick and straight pen sketches. I want to bring more looseness into faces while still capturing the essense of the person I am drawing.
December 24, 2006
Knossos at Club Fais Do Do
After a day of animation stuff at home, I head over to Club Fais Do Do to check out Knossos. It’s so much fun to see amazing musicians like that in such an intimate setting.
December 21, 2006
Wednesday Figure Drawing
Here are this weeks Figure Drawings. The last for this year! If you look at the first two sketches, you can see that they are the same pose. Some of my previous posts have examples of this too. Often, after finishing a sketch, if there’s time left on that pose, I’ll do another quick sketch before time runs out. It is easier to bring out the pose in simple lines. When I put detail in, it quickly reduces the overall energy. Of course, you can’t get that energy in detail without being able to do so with very little line either. That’s one of the things I’m working on here.
December 14, 2006
Wednesday Figure Drawing
Here are this week’s figure drawings. Wish I had time to go out and do some costumed figures as well…trying to simplify complex clothing would be a great thing to work on. Also, it would be interesting to see how much of the underlying movement I could bring out in the clothes..hmm.
December 13, 2006
Rashmi the Madwoman!
Okay…I guess it would have been more exciting if I’d painted some of the actors…but I was busy watching. This is a part of the set for Madwoman of Chaillot. My friend Rashmi was one of the very talented actors (and mad women) in this fun play.
December 7, 2006
Wednesday Figures
Here are today’s figure drawings. I tried a few with more line. It’s really tricky drawing a complete figure in ink straight away, but it helped that the two closeups were 10 minutes instead of 5. It takes me at least double the time to think out these lines if I start caring about making it a little more “refined”. I’ve got to start moving somewhere new with this stuff…too busy with animation stuff lately, but eventually I’ll do some more watercolors with a clear mind, hopefully for a few hours straight and things will start going somewhere from here. That’s why I have no shame about stuffing my pockets with art supplies wherever I go…I’ve got too much to do and too little time to do it! Don’t we all…
December 3, 2006
Saddle Ranch and Backstage Cafe
Two Birthdays. One night. Tons of new faces. The Saddle Ranch sketch kind of became a mess of color. I lost the structure and depth of it. I got too caught up in the details. The second sketch, from inside the Backstage Cafe turned out a bit better. I’ll have to keep working out how to simplify all that detail into something that gets the idea across. Either way, it’s fun, and people are always asking where all that stuff (art supplies) came from. My pockets are always full 
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