Yet another gorilla sketch

I've been busy with some other projects and haven't posted anything here for a while so I dug up another Gorilla from an old sketchbook.

A quicker, quick sketch

When I realized that I was putting out much better figure drawings in pen than in charcoal, someone suggested I try using a grey art marker to do tones and any underdrawing, so that the drawing didn't become any more of a mess of black lines than it needed to be.

Usually I would take a drawing like this and then go in and accentuate the final form with a black pen. For some reason I didn't do that with this one. I don't remember if I just lost interest or if I was just happy with it the way it was. Flipping through my sketchbook now, I do like this as is.

the spiky haired artist returns...

I found more drawings of this guy. Something about him must have inspired me because if you were to page through this part of my sketchbook, my drawings of him are all pretty good, but the ones of the model, well, not so much.

I wanna go back to my little grass shack...

I painted this a few years ago for a kids music video that was going to have kids bluescreened onto this background. Kind of fun to do since I had very few parameters.

Another student

...who was a more interesting subject than the real model.

Rabbit sketch

I drew this a few years ago, and just came across it in an old sketchbook. I don't know why I tend to frequently put overalls on the rabbits I draw. Besides the fact that the bagginess tends to go well with the hind leg forms, I think I always picture these guys as relatives to Brer Rabbit, and there's a folksy ruralness to overalls. All he needs is a bindle over his shoulder!

Drawergeeks: Rednecks

The theme on Drawergeeks this week is Rednecks. While it has a definite connotation for me, I kept coming back to this image which to me says "hillbilly" more than "redneck". I tried a couple of other options, and even Googled Jeff Foxworthy's material to figure out what a redneck is exactly. His comments frequently mentioned roadkill, going shirtless, and facial hair, so figured I was safe with my initial idea. Pretty happy with the way it turned out. You can check out the other submissions here.

Standing figure with Drapery

A quick 3 minute sketch from a figure drawing class.

A crayon portrait

Just a quick portrait I did over the Thanksgiving weekend. Sabrina and I did lots of coloring and drawing to pass the time.

Drawergeeks: Starbelly

The original inspiration for this week's theme on drawergeeks.com was the Dr. Seuss story "The Sneetches".

But as you can see from my entry below, and the others, people have done some other interpretations of the term "starbelly".

Now to give credit where credit is due: my design owes a ton of inspiration to artist Frank Cho, creator of the Liberty Meadows comic books. His drawings, and specifically his covers, of his main character Brandy are awe-inspiring. The pose in my initial sketch for my Starbelly design bore quite a resemblance to his cover for Liberty Meadows: Eden Book 1. Ok, maybe it isn't a big mystery why, because that is the only copy of his stuff that I have, but it really wasn't an intentional imitation. Once I went to clean up my drawing, I noticed the similarity of pose and intentionally imitated his color and shading style- hey there's no shame in imitating the best is there?

Fellow Students

Often I would come out a Figure Drawing class with passable drawings of the model but great drawings of the students.

Here are two that I found. The top one is actually Disney Imagineer Gene Wiskerson who oversaw the class and who was sculpting the model in this session. The other is a student.

The lady on the table

A quick sketch from my figure drawing class.

Gorilla sketches

A pair of gorilla sketches from the LA Zoo.

Figure Drawing

These are some figure drawings I came across in one of my sketchbooks. They're unusual in that I drew the model several times from different angles.

Send in the Clowns

Yikes! Has it really been over two months since my last post?! There's nothing I hate more than a blog that goes for weeks without an update. I did these quick sketches for Drawergeeks a few weeks ago.

You can check out the other submissions here.