Figure Drawing

I am excited to have found a new place to get back into figure drawing. That new place is Spring Studios its a great place to draw! If you're in New York I really recommend this. I have been to a few not so nice places in the boroughs. This is affordable, quaint and in a great area. Most importantly no matter how busy your schedule is you can make a class! They have several classes a day running through out the day.

 I also loved that there location was filled with different kinds of easels, desks and mountains of art books to peruse during model breaks. I also liked that its monitored not teaching, for me I just need the model not a full lesson. One of my many goals this year is to create a new portfolio and new figure drawings is a must. So here is the first of many "Figure Drawing!" posts of the year.

Lana Del Rey Tribute

This is a page from my sketchbook inspired by the song "Dark Paradise" by Lana Del Rey. The lyric I was most interested in was "...There's no remedy for memory...".

I love her album "Born To Die" its so nice to have an album you can listen to all the way through. I'm teaching myself "Video Games" on the guitar right now. Its a great song to practice playing if your a beginner like myself. 

I used a lot of different mediums on this one and was able to get a matte effect. Now I want to use a more reflective paint to contrast the bottle with the label and background. 

Inspiration Post of the Year!!!

I am so blown away by this commercial for Lancome. The animation, design and direction is astounding. I am so inspired and know you will be too.

 

Royal Icing

A long time ago I drew these cupcake girls as a quick sketch. I am working on finishing them now. I think of these girls as friends of Marie Antoinette in her royal court for some reason. I love the Marie Antoinette movie with Kristen Dunst. The imagery is so inspiring and the soundtrack is nice too! 

This is just a start. Now I am collecting toile textile patterns as inspiration. I think it would be cool to tile these girls and create a fancy pattern of them. 

Here is a clip from the movie for fun.

 

Figure Compositions

I am trying to make my figure studies more finished for my portfolio. Here are some poses I am working on. 

My Progress

My current life drawings. There not in any particular order. I dont have work on Wednesdays this semester so I am going to Open Drawing every week. I am trying to get as much life drawing in now that way I will have a lot to choose from for my portfolio.

This last one was inspired by James Jean. In some of his sketchbooks he draws from life and draws one figure on top of the other. It reminds me of a technique a drawing teacher my friend had, once told me. They had a drawing teacher who would make them throw out every drawing they made through out the day at the end of every class. In order to teach them that there drawings weren't precious. When you stop thinking of your work as precious you will take risks. Art is about risk. Next time I will use pen and really commit. 

My Progress

My current life drawings. There not in any particular order. I dont have work on Wednesdays this semester so I am going to Open Drawing every week. I am trying to get as much life drawing in now that way I will have a lot to choose from for my portfolio.

This last one was inspired by James Jean. In some of his sketchbooks he draws from life and draws one figure on top of the other. It reminds me of a technique a drawing teacher my friend had, once told me. They had a drawing teacher who would make them throw out every drawing they made through out the day at the end of every class. In order to teach them that there drawings weren't precious. When you stop thinking of your work as precious you will take risks. Art is about risk. Next time I will use pen and really commit. 

Keep Drawing!

I was cleaning my room today and found a bunch of old sketchbooks. I was looking through them and thinking of who I was when I was filling them. Its interesting to look back at observation drawings and remember where I was or who I was with and why I wanted to capture that thing in my sketchbook at that specific moment. Most of the drawings were bad but I remember how hard I was trying and even now I can see improvement in my self as I scroll through each sketchbook.
I think its true what people say, everyone has bad drawings in them and you have to draw as much as possible to get them out. A comfort you can take in this is you will never go backward in skill. You will only get better.
Here are some pictures I liked from one of my sketchbooks.

Keep Drawing!

I was cleaning my room today and found a bunch of old sketchbooks. I was looking through them and thinking of who I was when I was filling them. Its interesting to look back at observation drawings and remember where I was or who I was with and why I wanted to capture that thing in my sketchbook at that specific moment. Most of the drawings were bad but I remember how hard I was trying and even now I can see improvement in my self as I scroll through each sketchbook.
I think its true what people say, everyone has bad drawings in them and you have to draw as much as possible to get them out. A comfort you can take in this is you will never go backward in skill. You will only get better.
Here are some pictures I liked from one of my sketchbooks.

Life drawings

Some life and anatomy drawings  I forgot to post.

Summer Course

 Here are some pictures from my summer course, Figure in Clay with Gerry Hoag. Gerry is one of my favorite teachers at Mass Art I took Life Drawing with him my sophomore year and it changed the way I  think about the human figure. Gerry is a sculptor outside of teaching therefor he's always thinking in 3-d. He taught me to think 3 dimensionally when drawing in 2-d and I saw a huge improvement in my drawing skills. Later I took stop motion and a course in Maya which further caused me to think three dimensionally. So I was really excited to take Gerry's course Figure in Clay this summer. I learned a lot from working in 3d I think it has further improved the way I observe the figure and it will definitely come into play when working in 3d computer programs or any kind of real 3d work for stop motion or other projects.
 So here are some pictures I took on my phone during the whole process of my sculpture. I still want to finish it in wax so I will post final pictures soon.