figures and characters

And then here's a pastel figuring drawing I did a while back, 3 hour pose. Had fun doing some composing for a change rather than just focusing on the construction of the figure, and I like the way a lot of the values and colors ended up working. Funtiems!

And lastly here's a WIP of a character design for the first assignment here at the workshop, a post-apocalyptic cultist. Having a lot of fun with this one and feeling like it's one of my stronger designs to date, especially in terms of narrative.

Cheers!

Dead Dudes and Figures

Aight, here's some more stuff. It is with somewhat sorrowful but also not really and kinda excited feelings that I've decided to relinquish my 'updating daily' title. It's obviously been untrue for a little while now and with half of our classes being mostly unpostable work for now I just dunno if I can keep it up. So I'll probably switch to updating once or twice a week with two or three higher quality images. I think ultimately it'll be a good switch, you'll get higher quality work in larger chunks, I'll get to stop freaking out over not having to update and losing sleep feeling obligated to update before bed. :D

SO with that out of the way, here's some frikkin art.

This one's an ink drawing I did of a grim reaper type dude, which ended up being pretty interesting. We had an art show at the ATX Pod last Friday with the Vigil studios and students were allowed to put one piece in the show, I was swamped with homework and didn't plan to put anything in but on that Thursday I got some free time, so I started thumbnailing this guy at 11 in the morning, spent an hour and a half buying bristol and a frame at like noon, and then worked on it until like 12 literally while we were tearing down the studio for the show, haha. And rather spiffily it actually sold the next day, first showpiece evar! Aww yeah.







And this second one is just a 3hr figure drawing done during Saturday's session. Just messin with pastels and having fun, not much to it. :D

Peace out yo!

Pastel Portrait

Again sorry for not updating yesterday, this time it's cause I went to a wedding, so nyeah.

But anywho, here's a 3-hour portrait from today's figure session, done in nupastel. As always, the drawing is the worst part of it, I really need to punch myself in the face and stop rendering and coloring everything and just spend the time getting the drawing as good as it can possibly be. Should probably just go back to charcoal for a while in figure sesions.

But regardless I think there's some fun stuff happening with the design and color, 3 hours reasonably well spent. Plus it was fun.

40Min Figure Drawing

Here's a pastel figure drawing I did today just to relax and have some fun. It's been a while since I did a figure drawing just for the sake of making a pretty drawing and not trying to learn form and color and lighting and anatomy and all that business, but all that learning has definitely helped my observational drawing, cause I think this is a lot more successful than any of the drawings I did in this technique last semester. I was also messing around with color for the heck of it, seeing if I could get the figure to feel fleshy with the colors I have.