Thank you to all of you that joined me for my first class teaching life drawing for the year! Our fantastic model, John, took inspiration from classical statues for the night’s poses. It was truly lovely to hear that my tips on drawing proportion and observation helped. I was very impressed with the quality of everyone’s drawings that evening.
I will announce when I will be hosting my next class soon.
Jumping back into regular life drawing sessions this year with a fantastic Frida Kahlo inspired class last week with the always lovely Lorelle Rouge modelling for us.
I will be teaching the next Cover Characters session – Greek Mythology on Feb 8th. Before the class I will be sharing some helpful tips on drawing the figure and observing as you draw. So come have fun and make some art!
My tribute in progress to an amazing lady and with what it going on in the world for all the amazing women throughout history who have stood their ground. I will be donating the finished painting to the #kickbraincancer charity auction. This sketch was inspired by Alphonse Mucha’s ‘La Trappistine‘ poster.
Photos of me going over some figure drawing tips, answering questions and sketching the final pose of the night were taking by my BFF Nicole (BleedingHeartPrints).
With the large number of artist attending art supplies ran low and I stuck with my humble white colored pencil for the session.
Photograph by my BFF and art buddy Nicole McGrath -http://bleedingheartprints.tumblr.com/
I wasn’t able to get this video posted before the end of Oct but I thought I would still share it. Learning from my first video – the camera is moved to my left side so the drawing isn’t covered by my hand and I’ve tried to have more light. Nearly all of my inktober drawing were done after I finished everything else for the day meaning they were done often late into the night.
The video has been sped up 16x to show a little over half and hour of inking. My tools for all of my inktober drawings-Castell XF 0.7 mechanical pencil, Mircon pens on toned paper and A3 LED light pad.
I hope to share more process videos in the future and perhaps some tutorials as well.
One of my drawing (Her reclining in the “Eyes”costume) ended up winning the art book prize “Metamorphosis 1&2″from the our hosts BeinArt Gallery. I’d like to think it was meant as lovely early birthday present.
#inktober2016 Day 31 – Ghoul
Hungry, the creature feasts on the long dead found in a forgotten tomb.
Happy Halloween!
With a mixture of relief and sadness another Inktober comes to an end. It was a challenge to find time to do a drawing each day but I am really pleased that I could see it through. As rushed as some of these drawing are I am happy with all of them. It has been great practice and really good to draw on paper everyday.
#inktober2016 Day 30 – Cockatrice
The equally deadly brother to the Basilisk, the Cockatrice has the added advantage of flight.