Weeks 3 - 4

In the last few weeks i did lots and lots of Animal sketches and had so much fun while doing it.
Again it was great to constantly get feedback from Jake... be it with a critique, or comments or in our Q&A...
I tried drawing digitally and traditionally just to mix it up and experience both sides.
In Photoshop i worked with a standard charcoal brush and analog i just stuck with my beloved conte crayons :-)

I think i definitely made some progress... i feel more confident in the methods and techniques i use and i feel that i hit proportions much better now (but im still far from any decent drawing)

So heres we go...
I mostly structured my sessions in some 1-3 minute sketches at the beginning, then moving on to 5 minutes, then 10 and in the end even some 15min, which was the time limit Jake gave me.

Another part of the assignment was, especially for the longer ones, to try to figure out the 3D shapes and how they look in space... I tried my best... but didnt succeed every time :-)

Theres a lot of stuff to learn... Jake especially commented on more confident lines and getting away from drawing the same line over and over again...
I also feel that i really have to put in an effort to fully grasp the concept of line weight and how to apply it properly...
And of course... proportion, lighting etc...

but i definitely had a lot of fun...

so on to the next assignment...
Creature design silhouettes :-)

yaaay

TSA Session 4

In this session we continued working with line... We explored the relations between straight and bent lines and we looked at two different ways of blocking in general shapes and then draw the detailed line on top.

I like number 2 and 3 a lot... feels like i made another big leap forward...

By the way... most of the stuff is drawn with conté crayons on 24 x 36" newsprint.
Sometimes we used willow charcoal or some red chalk to block in... but i really like the marks i can make with the contés...

K... that was it for now... im having the next TSA session on saturday, and im working on a draw 100 challenge as well... i thought to start with im doing skulls... its good to learn anatomy and will hopefully help those absolutely ridiculous faces im currently drawing :-) im on 72 drawings or so at the moment and i hope i can finish it till next monday... Alright... thanks for the attention hahaha

TSA - Session three

In this session we started working with line instead of overal shapes and gesture. I love it so much to see what different techniques there are to explore... and i will definitely repeat this class in winter... just to do all the stuff again, before i move on to life drawing 2.

Again sorry for the poor quality... i promise ill shoot better pictures next time :-)

Open life drawing - 09.27.2012

This is from a open life drawing session on a thursday night at TSA.
I was just messing around with materials, trying to figure out how to draw values and not to be too intimidated by how good the people drew who were sitting next to me :-)

TSA - Session two

Now here is the first stuff from the TSA class i consider more or less good enough to show here.
And after all this is more for myself to look back than for anyone else (except of course for you Svetla) ;-)

The drawings were done in Session two where we started talking about anatomy, the position of the hips, the ribcage and also foreshortening...
to me this was the first CRAZY enlightening moment where i realized right when i was drawing that im discovering so much new stuff, and that suddenly my drawings start to look soooo much better.

Prep for TSA

alright... here we go. First off i have to apologize for the bad picture quality. I was kind of in a hurry, and im too lazy to shoot again hahaha

Now a bit about my background... i had never a real drawing class in my life before... last year i wanted to start classes, but kind of ended up never going... dont ask me why... But since one month im finally taking life drawing 1 at Toronto School of Art... and its like i opened the door to another world... free to explore... i have been drawing almost every day since i started... challenging myself with exercises from books, ctrlpaint.com, Glen Vilppus tutorials or by repeating the stuff we did in class... its so inspiring and i LOVE it so much.

So were starting off with some drawings i did prior to the life drawing class at TSA... just to explore different materials... I like some of them, but looking back, i see so many flaws... ah well... im just starting off right? :-)

Oh and if youre wondering why im only drawing big breasted women... let me tell you... i tried drawing guys... but theyre 10 times harder to draw!