Day 3, hahaha... Meg and Mog

With each day I fall further and further behind....

This is my friend Meghan. She likes cats and doesn't afraid of anything.

Day 2 (late) Liam

So at present my theme is "Bog standard portraits of friends in odd, but not particularly interesting, poses". Today's pic is my pal Liam, who is a good egg. He's not been out for fowar days. I left in a couple of test sketches at the top.

I got a new pen today and it is gorgeous. Weird how things like that make all the difference when it comes to how professional a drawing looks, huh?

Day 1? Rolo

So lots of people I know are doing the whole drawing a day advent thing, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon. I'm aware today is not day 1 of anything. I did start this drawing on the 1st though. I also put a question mark because there's a good chance this'll fall through like a DIY staircase. We'll see I suppose.

I don't really have a theme. This one's just a straight up portrait of the GF. Her response when I showed it to her was, "Who is it? Oh really? I couldn't tell. What's wrong with my hands?" Thanks, Rolo x

Spook Fighters

Went to see Ghostbusters last night. Then stayed up super late drawing this. Inevitable really...

Procrastination

I mean, uh... working on my caricatures... because... it'll be useful, yeah... Useful...

Certainly would be a handy skill for commission based stuff or what have you. I dunno, just something I wanted to work on. I was also trying to think more about colour theory and shading but I'm not sure how successful that was either... Dissertation still squats uncomfortably on my shoulders whispering terrible things in my ear. Yet to reach 7000 words but I'm pretty sure I have shed 7000 tears. That's close, right?

Guess who.

Slice of Life Drawing

Tried something a little different in the second half of life drawing today and attempted to caricature the life model. Once I explained what I was doing to our tutor, Reinhard, he was fine with it. I'm fairly pleased with the results, and if nothing else it was lots of fun.

Leaf Drawing

I don't really want to saturate my blog with my frankly rather mediocre life drawing. Been trying to push myself with it since Christmas though and I thought I'd put up one or two of the highlights. I did have a huge hiatus from about April through to September due to not being at uni, but I'm getting back into the swing I think.

These first two are from before the summer. The first one is copic markers, I'm not sure how long the poses were. The second one is just col-erase pencil and took 20 mins each.

The coloured chalk one here is from last week and was a fifteen minute job. The charcoal ones at the bottom were done today and were also fifteen minutes each

By the way, if you're feeling particularly good about yourself and need a swift kick in the self confidence, feast your peepers on this guy's life drawing. Jeeso... http://benlo0.blogspot.com/