Figure drawings in ink

A sketch post, in which I post figure drawings that only I am sure to like.

Had a get together with friends, and we all took turns posing and drawing. About half way through we moved over to gesture drawing, which happens to be my favorite. It gives me an excuse to be super loose (I usually worry too much about accuracy) and have fun with the medium. This time around, it was ink, in different forms. The first set there is with a brush pen. Then I moved on to using a crow quill and bamboo quill, and experimenting with it and water. It started off pretty rough, but by that end image there, I’d found a way to work with it I liked.

While these may look like glorified scribbles to some, I’m actually rather happy with them. I like the amount of movement here. The amount of abstraction. My work tends to get too stiff for my liking. I want to bring some of this life into more finished pieces.

The Muse

Went to another session of Dr Sketchy's tonight. The lovely Muse was our model.

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Bananna car

Sketch of my car while camping. Trying to loosen up and not worry so much over clean images anymore. It was a fun time killer. I drive a 2003 Mistubishi Lancer. :P

SOCA returns

SOCA's back in session for the semester. We did two long poses this time instead of several shorter ones. My first run didn't go so great, so this is the only one that's decent.

something new

A bit of zen drawing. I've been bogged down in digital work, and wanted to do something in ink. Nothing terribly special, but I'm fond of how it ended up turning out. I'd like to try my hand at more ink work when I have time opportunity.

Blue is Calming

Dr. Sketchys and SOCA

SOCA! We had a pair model for us. I tried a few new ideas for how to do these, and the first one of using watercolor and colored pencil flopped, so I went back to using pen. I was sick this SOCA, so these aren't too accurate, as I was like "buh, wish I could breathe and hear..." haha. I tried to focus more on value and modeling rather than anatomical perfection (obviously). I think next SOCA, depending on the model, I'll be focusing on parts of the form, and not trying to draw the whole thing. 

 And these last two are from the last session of Dr. Sketchy's. It was a voodoo theme, and the model Rio bought her adorable pet snakes with her to model with. They were so cute! The first one here was a challenge of trying to draw her as she was dancing, since our model is also a belly dancer.

SOCA in red

SOCA now with tenticles

Penny Get Your Gun

Went to another Dr. Sketchy's session, this one was a western theme. The costumes, especially the second one, were a lot of fun to draw, and definitely not something I get to do from life often. Model was the lovely Pretty Penny, one of our local burlesque dancers.

Dr. Sketchys

Dr. Sketchy's session today from 5-about 8. Got a lot of sketches in, and remembered that I should be doing figure drawings more often! x_x Model is Jendetta. Poses range anywhere from 5-20 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Vacation doodles

Life drawings done while on vacation in Upstate NY. The left is my second cousin's rocking horse, who was missing an ear, and the right is a clover flower. I didn't know what to do at the bottom, so the hands were a second thought, resulting in some not so good composition.

I've got a bit of a hand motif going on lately. Trying to get more confident with drawing them. The hand on the left is mine, and the monster is more just filler. The right is a combination of two photos I took at Holywood Cemetery.

SOCA couples night

Tonight was a couple, which was fun. I got there a bit late so my first one is less than five minutes. I like it though, it's still nice and loose.

Started playing with not just drawing as much of the model as possible from here on out. Proved to be much more interesting.

Playing with bolder lines in that last one. Was fun.

Three this time

Plant in front of a very colorful wall at Strange Matter, a local place with tasty food.

wonky drawing of Crystal because she can't sit still, and the table in front of me when I was at Strange Matter. Look at that, sketches NOT from SOCA! :O

SOCA is colorblind

Sketches from SOCA.

Crossroads

We went to a local coffee shop during class and sketched out in the lovely weather.