Picasso I'm Not: 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Jim

Nice fellow, Jim, from two different Saturday afternoon life drawing sessions. I've caught a good likeness of his face as well as body here. I'm not always successful in getting the face - mostly because I psych myself out about it. So this is a good thing. Yay Dan!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Some figure drawings and some not-so-figure drawings....

Found a few more drawn tidbits on my hard drive. Mostly figure work with miscellaneous mixed in. These span over the last year or two. I'm back with a life drawing session that meets twice a month, so I'll have some newer stuff to post.

A wee dog I saw on the street. Sidewalk, really.

A Fembot. Okay, it didn't start out as a Fembot but I was watching the "Fembots in Las Vegas" episodes of The Bionic Woman and it just happened.

My hand and I having a staring contest. Hand lost.

Guy I saw in a coffee shop. Looks drunk but he wasn't. Then again, how would I know if he was sober...?

I think I drew this from a photo of Amy Grant. Looks just like her, right? Minus all the junk bleeding through from the other side of the page....

Elephant and calf. Infamous in that I drew this as part of a Thai-focused set for friends from Thailand, but drew *African* elephants instead of the Asian variety actually found in Thailand.

An *actual* Asian elephant.

A junk off the coast of Thailand's Andaman Sea. Note, this is the Thailand coast - not the African coast. Also a gift for a Thai friend.

Common Rose Butterfly - native to Thailand. Now we begin see why the African Elephants stuck out like a sore thumb....

Life model Elizabeth. As I recall, she did not actually have one giant arm and one regular-sized arm....

Life model Andrea-figure study.

A figure study-profile.

More of the same, but of a person's torso. Obviously.

Giraffes, at the local zoo. The only damn animals at the zoo who moved slow enough for me to sketch.

Figure study.... Too bad I ran out of time, this was shaping up nicely.

Another one of my hand - drawn while it was napping.

Hillary - life model, not stepdaughter.

Life model Jessica - her first time modeling and she never came back. Guess sitting naked in front of a crowd isn't for everybody.

Life model Kelly. One tall drink of water....

Potted plant in a local library. You take it where you can get it.

Lisa.

Liz.

Also Liz...

The always popular crouching man pose.

Mindy.

Mindy again.

Little postcard I made and sent to my niece, Nook.

Some leaves from the park.

The pear - always a favorite for still life....

5 minute sketch at a drawing session.

Mr. White Rhino at the local zoo. Okay, I guess the giraffes weren't the only slow movers.

Tree in the park. Hear a dog bark. Then sing like a lark....

More library foliage.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

arte of the olde

Old stuff - early nineties through early 2000s, I think....

Not a lot of access to models back in the day, so a lot of these are taken from photos or another artist's work. Including this one (from another artist's work)....

This would be me and a sketchbook and a full length mirror, in my hippie glory.

Also from another's work. I don't think I kept record then, let alone now, of who these folks were....

From a photo....

From a photo as well.

I think I adapted this from an old (1940s) drawing of Mary Marvel. Left out the cape and such....

My.... HAND!

Another something - from a comic book, I think.

I think adapted from some work in a "how to draw book".

This I did for a college class. It's actually made from torn up bits of newspaper and magazine pages, so no pen or paint involved - just paper and glue.