Studies/ Thumbnails + Watercolor

 A quote that kinda got me going the other day from How to Sketch with Watercolor:

"I'm a strong believer in practice and hard work as the means to achieving excellence in art. Listening to a lecture, reading books, buying the latest and greatest supplies, cleaning your studio, watching others give demonstrations, anything that doesn't include putting a pencil, pen or brush to paper yourself, doesn't help as much as sitting down and sketching, drawing or painting." -David R. Becker

I spend so much time reading about art, buying supplies and cleaning my studio. I have to spend more time actually doing it... I always find that for me, the most motivational quotes are a lot like Nike's JUST DO IT. Although I find if I get worked up and full of an almost aggressive determination, it's so hard to put that energy into something as passive as drawing. Maybe I need to do something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54UL0xUt8-s XD

On the update.. I've been mucking around with some watercolour quite unsuccessfully, not totally sure yet if it was my fault or the paper.. probably both. I will have another go now that I'm back at home with my art supplies.

I really want to digitally shrink that last guy's eye.. but that defeats the purpose of a pencil sketch argh, digital is so much easier >.> I'm not sure if I will learn more by making mistakes in permanent inks or working on them until they are correct in digital format?

I think my direction for this week is just studying portraits so I can acquire a few more face and features types to draw and also take note of general similarities they have.

I'm gonna shut up now and JUST DO IT rawr!

Studies/ Thumbnails

Here we have:

Some thumbnails for CHOW #192 -Atlantean Anarchist t. They didn't go any further as usual : /

Some gesturals from Sunday sketchmeet, some thumbs for a webpage thing I'm working on and finally a pic done with some water in a brush pen (borrowed from Ed).. I need to get one of these, it's awesome. I was thinking of bringing just brushes and water to use on my pen drawings, this is the perfect solution! ..and much more subtle on public transport lol..

Whoo! I have job at EB Games now so I need to start concentrating on art (when I get back from WA) :D

CA Sketchmeet Sunday- 21nd of Feb + Face sculpt

Some gesturals from Sunday and some other random things thrown in there. I think the appearance of my quick gesturals might actually be improving.. they look more natural and like real people. I particularly like the old grandma sitting and reading for some reason.

While we were sitting on the pretend grass at the QV building we were thrown comfy beanbags to sit on and a band called Husky rocked up and played in front of us (hence the guy with a guitar in the sketches). I thought that was particularly awesome because stuff like that never happens in Perth. That was the third free performance I'd experienced in a week; the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performance on Sunday was of such high quality it felt weird that I wasn't paying for it. Melbourne is awesome.

I took up knoxie's idea to sculpt a part of the face... I kind of made the eye a bit too wide open and huge.. but hey, I actually found myself learning more about the nose and how the cheek attaches to the side of it. Definitely need to study more noses! I guess that will be my next sculpt.

Here are some poorly lit photos of my sculpting..

 

I haven't been working on a lot else because I have some commission work to do. I'm kind of feeling the effects of not having an income, I need to get a stable job soon!

CA Sketchmeet Sunday! 14th of Feb

Gong xi fa cai!

My attempt to draw chinese new year crowds..

CA Sketchmeet Sunday!

Did some gesturals with the group on Sunday :) It was interesting and pretty challenging! We drew people as they walked past the GPO. I tried the suggestion of picking 3 things about a person and then drawing multiple versions of people with the same description. That's why there are a lot of sunnies (it was bright) not because I was trying to avoid eyes (but now that I think of it that's not a bad idea haha)!