Life Drawing —part 2!

Life Drawing

I'm taking a Life Drawing class at Michigan State University to see if I can kick myself out of my art slump. It's challenging, particularly when the model isn't one you particularly like or the pose is one you'd just rather not tackle.

Miss Mosh

For the July jam over at the Drawing Board (yes, I'm a bit late.)

Pencil sketch with Photoshop color.

Model is Miss Mosh.

Rainbow Robots

I did a sketch of a robot girl, then inked her up and added her to the amazing Patricio Betteo's big robot and colored the whole thing for his Coloring Contest over on deviantArt!













I found it surprisingly fun to color someone else's work.

Post San Diego

Well, three days later I think I'm back on Michigan time, acclimated to the much higher humidity (ugh) and am feeling more or less recovered from a great trip to San Diego Comic-Con.

Having gone once before really helped this time around; I wasn't quite so completely blown away by the crowds, the noise, the too-many-panels-and-not-enough-time, and especially the too-many-artists-to-see-in-four-days of the whole experience. And then there's the exquisite frustration of having nowhere near enough money to buy EVERYTHING I wanted...

I traded a few sketchbooks and bought a whole bunch from the many fine people who were there...and I got to meet a few artists from deviantART as well: Bill Reinhold, Dan Panosian, Alex Riegel, and Franchesco, all of whom were delightful.



At one point on the exhibit floor when I was nearly overcome by heat and the crush of bodies I found myself thinking, "this is the last year for me; it's too much!" But by the end of the weekend I was making plans for next year. At some point I expect I'm gonna be too old for this kind of craziness but evidently I'm not there yet.

Off to San Diego Comic-Con

Yay, I get to go to SDCC again! I expect to have even more fun since it's the second time I've gone and I know the ropes, ha ha. The ropes? What does that mean, anyway?

I put together a little sketchbook of belly dancer sketches and finished work, in the hopes of trading a few of them for sketchbooks by artists I admire who will be there. And if they don't want to trade, I'll give 'em away!

Green Gypsy

Brush pen and watercolor.

The power of a graphic...

...to create a really bad impression.


















I have to wonder what the hapless graphic designer was told for this assignment. Make it look like the presidential seal only make it really hope-y-change-y with some important-sounding latin text. Make it hip and cool. Yeah!

Fail.

One of my friends actually told us this seal-gone-wrong was only an 'urban legend.' Good grief. Are there really people out there who aren't paying attention to what's happening with the presumptive Democratic nominee?

May Sketches

Woo hoo sketch dump!

In May I drew a belly dancer a day. Some are more finished than others, but here's a few of the better ones.

Marci (again)

Brush pen and digital color.

Marci

Pencil, colored pencil and watercolor.

Kadife

Pencil; color added in Photoshop.

Sarita

Brush marker and watercolor inks.

Sword Dancer

Reference: a photo found on Flickr.

lol.

I took the test...

23 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

Heh.

Drawing Jam

Fun with colored pencils. For a drawing jam on the Drawing Board.

Old Life Drawing

Came across this the other day. I need to take another life drawing class.

Funky Food

These were done for a job — a booklet of recipes for kids. They had to be done fast, and were meant to be very loose and colorful.

I did them in Illustrator with additional fiddling around in Photoshop.

Desirée

Pencil and watercolor.

Photo reference by Desiree of deviantART.

Eye Candy From Strangers!

I don't know how, but I managed to get something in Volume 1 of Eye Candy from Strangers, so I'm kind of jumping for joy. :)

(I've vowed to submit better stuff for the next volume...I do feel like I've improved greatly since I did that little belly dance piece way back in early '07.)



Anyway, both of these fabulous books are produced by the amazing Alberto Ruiz--go check out his blog right now -- and his Brandstudio Press publishing company.

Alberto is a terrific artist and a real supporter of artists as well. I give him a lot of credit for inspiring me to get back to drawing and painting and starting my own blog a couple years back.

Both books are incredibly inspiring, not to mention beautifully printed and bound. Highly recommended! Go buy 'em!