For a girl who is fond of robots

sketches - paths

sketches - twisted

Quiet around these parts...

Scribble dump pt 2

Found some more scribbles

Not sure why I'm into lightbulbs at the moment

Imagine Penelope Crrrruz with a big head

girl in a lightbulb

Found the other designs I had for girl in a lightbulb.

A little bit freaky

Maybe too sexy?

Scribble dump

So the Shirt52 project is struggling along a bit. Haven't been scribbling enough lately.

Above: tinkering with the previous design I did of a hi-fi mermaid.

Above: ideas for a girl in a lightbulb painting I eventually want to do

Above: umm. ???

re: Whimsy

After n.t.

whimsy

i need to try new styles and to be more stylistic. attempt # 1

Continuing Adventures in Life Drawing - No Vacancy/Princess Hill

My adventures in life drawing continue.

Sunday was spent at Princess Hill where I was thrown by the male model. 1.5 hours and only one sketch worked. But of all the sketches done that day (and some were really fantastic sketches full of movement), only mine struck the model as actually resembling him. His comment certainly made my day.

Tonight I managed to get into No Vacancy again (after having suffered its name last week for having arrived at 6.40pm). Ink wasn't the medium tonight, but charcoal, as I worked to capture tonight's model, Renuka.

15/60 challenge

After the Dr Sketchy's afternoon I realized how much I enjoy sketching figures. As a poor man's substitute for having a model in my living room in the middle of the afternoon I decided to quick sketch off a photo reference and see how it went. I then got n.t. to send me a photo of her choice and I tried the same thing again. Two sketches from photo reference, both done in about 15 minutes. Hence the 15/60 challenge.

(Setting myself a few too many challenges this year: 15/60, Shirt52, and I haven't even started on a New Year's resolution to write ten songs by June, and have filmed a music video for one of those...)

No Vacancy - March 2010

Tonight's creative endeavours took place at No Vacancy, where the first time I tried to get into their drop in life drawing class, they lived up to their name. Tonight I finally got in and experimented with charcoal and indian ink. Definitely more indian ink for me after this.

Shirt52 project - week 3 with V Dentata @ Dr Sketchy's

Didn't think I'd be pumping out T-shirts so soon, but a unique opportunity arose at Dr Sketchy's life drawing on Sunday (see the life drawing post) and they were asking audience members to draw T-shirts inspired by the V Dentatas (the models for the afternoon). Guess who volunteered?

V Dentata @ Dr Sketchy's life drawing class

Dr Sketchy's is a great concept for a life-drawing class - they usually hire performers from burlesque or other subculture backgrounds as their models, creating interesting textures and challenging subject material. Dave and I both attended Sunday's session and you can see our results below (Dave's on the left, n.t on the right).

Dave: My style is very influenced by early 90s comic book art (thanks Jim Lee!)
n.t: I'm not sure what my style is but we're going again!

life (model) drawing

This year, I'm trying to be a bit more creative. Two things are certainly on the cards - life drawing and painting. I've been to three life/model drawing sessions now. The first session was a hen's event and featured a very young model, the second session featured a trapeze artist, and the third was true life drawing with a classically curvy and dreamy model. It's been a steep learning curve and I was exhausted by the end of today's session. Drawing is hard work.

Below is a snapshot of my progress.

Scribble dump + Shirt52 week 2

Koko Black Drawing Competition - Night of the Spirits

Finally, i'm done.




It's been a lot of hard but satisfying work. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close to the vision I wanted to create.

Koko Black Competition - Almost There

This is almost there. I'm not sure what to call it though - Festival of the Spirits? Night of the Spirits?

Shirt52 project - week 1

Inspired by Leanne's project 365 (one photo a day for a whole year) - Shirt52 - pop art T-shirt designs, one a week. Untitled, so far.