A couple of my favorites from today’s class. Above is a rare moment where I loosened up. The teacher mentioned that my initial sketch was too small on the page. So, I spent the last minute of the 5-minute pose enlarging it and quickly scribbling the curves. I need to see if I can maintain this sort of looseness, especially for quick sketches.

The drawing below was done using negative space. In other words, instead of drawing the model, we had to draw the areas of space outside of her, such as the space between her and the pole, which I’ve highlighted in red.

Feeling lukewarm about my latest homework; I can tell I haven’t been practicing enough over the last few weeks.

This week’s assignment was a portrait from the waist up. Wonder if the teacher will notice that I totally cheated by bundling up in front of the mirror, thus avoiding having to draw hands and ears.

Gotta gear up for my first art class in 3 weeks, so here’s a little practice “seeing” my pencil sharpener. Tomorrow I’ll do my latest self-portrait, aka the homework on which I procrastinated (for nostalgic purposes?).

I know it seems chintzy to offer a hastily-drawn and slightly disturbing skecth of an old man wearing M.C. Hammer-style genie pants held up by suspenders, but I’ve been trying to finish editing a wedding video.  Hate it when paid work gets in the way of my unpaid hobbies!

Because I’m a giant nerd, I wanted to use my computer to see how close I was with yesterday’s shadow. Using Photoshop’s 3D function (which I’d never actually touched before), I placed a cutout of my character in a 3D scene and put up a light in roughly the same location I’d envisioned yesterday.

So I think I wasn’t too far off, but I was probably silly to try to show any curves in the long shadow; as this example shows, a shadow like that is just sort of compressed into straight lines.