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July 26, 2007

Wednesday Figures

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This weeks figure drawings are a mix of 2, 5 and 1 minute (second panel) sketches. For most of the 2 minute sketches, I added a few watercolor washes after the fact, so they are more like 3 and a half minutes. Some started with pencil, most are straight watercolors.

July 24, 2007

Odds and Ends

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Here are a few random sketches. The first is practice off a photo, the second from my head and the third from figure drawing.

July 23, 2007

Santa Monica to Malibu

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So, I walked along the ocean today, from Santa Monica, to Malibu and back. It feels good to feel physically tired from actually doing something physical, instead of from sitting at a desk all day. Here’s a quick sketch I had to do to try and redeem myself for a sketch that turned out really bad on Friday night (well, this one is at least better than that one!). Also, check out my new website at http://www.madguru.net/. As I try and develop some web and graphic design skills, I’ll play around with it some more and try to have some more fun with it. For now, it’s functional.

July 21, 2007

Wednesday Figures

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Here are some 3 minute figure drawings. This time around I put down pencils first and then added watercolor on top. For some of these, I just had pencil lines and a few watercolor strokes when the session ended, so I finished painting those ones later on (an hence took longer than 3 minutes). The top ones were the last ones of the session. I ran out of papers, and just painted on the cardboard from the pad. I’m trying to work on some structure. I hope that after a while I can start to intelligently mess with the anatomy. Working on that intelligence part…

July 13, 2007

Cheb i Sabbah, Riffat Sultana, Taal, Gingger Shankar, Atini Bauseh, Satnam Ramgotra and more at the Levitt Pavilion

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Went to see Cheb i Sabbah, Riffat Sultana, Taal, Gingger Shankar, Atini Bauseh, Satnam Ramgotra and more at a free show at the Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena. It’s been a few weeks since I mustered up the energy to go out after work, so this was a lot of fun! I was very tired, but I did managee a sketch of Cheb i Sabbah and one of the Atini Bauseh dancers. If only I had the energy to paint more of the performers. Oh well, next time. Just felt good to even do this much!

Wednesday Figures

Filed under: Uncategorized — madguru @ 6:51 am


This weeks sessions was super short. I was only there for a little bit, before work pulled me back in, but I managed to get some sketches in. I sketched these out with pencil and then continued with watercolor all in 3 to 5 minutes each. I dunno why I messed up the shoulder blade in the first figure on the second image..oh well.

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