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Ok, I’ve been sick recently so haven’t put time into any of my blogs. I’m felling better and starting to do more digital works (I downloaded the trial of Photoshop to give it a go - it’s been years).

Here’s some life drawings from a week ago - the final Friday of Dans. It was a most excellent session. One of the best of the term. Very happy with the results.

The model was Russel. He’s in his 50s and doesn’t look like Jesus

Gestural warmups. I’m never really happy with these but use them to get into the flow of the day. I guess they are helpful. 8b graphite stick was used.

Stretch! This figure is totally elongated, but I love the effect. Pushing those limbs to the limit. I didn’t mean to push it this far, but the effect works. Color! I have a bunch of watercolor pencils from 2010 that I have barely used - may as well put them to use. I love blue, especially that top one. The flesh tone is working well for the figure. I’ll explore these colors further.

Extreme foreshortening  Not a lot of information was present but I managed to capture the figure. I’m especially happy with the stomach area - certainly my strong point in drawing figure. I need to practice limbs further.

This was a fav amongst other students. Gestural works - but focused on a small portrait to develop it further.

The hand in the top right was a beauty and got positive comments from my tutor - Dan. I really love these colors - The blue and flesh tone contrast beautifully.

Gestural. Exploring arms. It’s a bit rubbish, needs more time. Biggest problem with the gestural works - wanting to take them further but not having the time.

Working with wide screen paper - I’ve done this all term and the format has worked well for me. Here I’ve tried to emulate the

This was my favorite for the day. The line is beautiful with the tone. Especially the upper leg. The hand has problems with anatomy. It’s a shame I didn’t finish the whole figure.

First update since the blog has been part restored. It’s mostly life drawing posts that have been re added. I will go though my artwork and create new posts for the missing work (especially traditional painting). The digital doesn’t worry me so much.

Here’s some recent life drawings of Georgette and Lee. The final Monday of the term involves double models (though we only had a 2nd model from lunch). I wasn’t happy with the work in the morning but once afternoon hit it improved. Georgette just wasn’t working for me. Strange really, in the past when I’ve drawn her it’s gone well.

It was nice to draw Lee, shes a TLC student but had mostly focused on Jeweler - she’s doing more life drawing nowdays.. Quite a regular at Vincents.

This is my favourite of the day. I’d like to take this style further. It’s working well. I’ve been timing myself in how much I can capture (not rushing). I should be able to capture the full model in 5 mins, no problem.

I used yellow to show the light and blue for dark/line. What do you think of this drawing?  Graphite pencil. Messy, I prefer a cleaner look in my life drawings currently. This is the style I did 2 years ago. 

This wasn’t working. I have nothing more to say.

This is working. Same color scheme as the first. The top drawing - not so much. But the bottom is there. What more could I add to it? Maybe a green layer? The scale of these are small compared to what I’m use to working with.

Todays theme for Reddit SketchDaily is: A study in Grays. Interesting theme! Gray!

I used Flickr for reference images. Normally I use Deviantart for stock images but DA stock artists often get cranky at using their photos on websites that isn’t DA. I hate DeviantArt with a passion. I started going back on there again but realised again quickly just how shit it is. Conceptart.org is better.

The reference I found on flickr:

My sister has a gray cat. She’s a sweetheart and never would hiss, delicate. Find it on Flickr here.

Ok, now a painting. I started with a quick line sketch. I’ve enjoyed using these lines recently. A small change.

For my Facebook friends this year I am creating digital birthday cards. I am sick of seeing crappy updates on Facebook of posts that just say: Happy Birthday, have a great day. The majority of content I am sent from friends and such is reposted from other sources. I guess that’s a motivation behind this blog – to create original content. Today my friend Joshua has a birthday. I met Josh during my visits with Occupy Wellington. During this time I drew portraits. Josh always wanted a portrait but I never got around it. For his birthday I completed a digital portrait for him.

The reference photo I used:

Another video from my digital work. This time I added a commentary to it. The sound isn’t the best, and I’m nervous/tired. In future I’ll work on a script/prompts before hand. I need a new mic if anyone would like to donate! Button on the right —–>

No the reference photos and JPGfor this- I was working straight from Chrome and reset my computer earlier, losing the works. Oh well.

Here’s the video:

The theme today on Reddit Sketch Daily is Inappropriate School Mascots. My first thought – Courage Wolf.

My friend Luca was the one to introduce me to Courage Wolf – though the app on Facebook. Many good generations!

Here’s a The Lion King and The Dark Knight Rises mash up. I saw this on Mashable and love it.

The Lion King was the first film I saw at the Cinema Beethoven was spose to be the first but I saw the poster for Alien 3 and refused to enter – Mum had to return the tickets and we went to the video store where I hired out movies I had seen many times before. Mum was disappointed.

Skipping a few years, my  sister Holley would watch The Lion King multi times a day on VHS. She loved it. It drove me insane. To this day I haven’t re-watched it since Holleys bursts. I have it on my laptop so may have to harden up and watch it. Excellent film.

Merry Xmas.

Received Skyrim and Rage for PC. I’ve wanted to play since their release and it’s been fun to chill out and play some video games –  without worrying about art or updating this blog. Taking a break once a week is nice. I need to work on a schedule and goals in my art and blog.

But I  feel like updating it now. That’s how blogs should work. Besides – I’m on holiday.

At the end of the day I am writing this blog for myself. It’s a journal of information.

The Reddit SketchDaily theme for today was December 24th – He’s sneaking to your home when you sleep. I’ve decided to no longer make these sketches with Reddit in the title. Instead integrate into my every day posting schedule.

I am going to start using [comic] in the title of comic posts… like this one.

The weather is hot and everything is horribly sticky so sitting inside on the computer is not the fun experience. UPDATE: I had an afternoon sleep so nice to wake up feeling energized and ready to write a blog post.

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