Sketchclub- Knight

Alright, so....

Cheating slightly with the theme this week but who doesn't love a bit of Gladiator? I even made the costume once for halloween, it took weeks of bending cardboard into plated armor and in the end I was beaten by a guy dressed as the tin man who just covered himself in tin foil- but hey, I'm not bitter...

Here is this week's sketch club entry (see link on bottom right of blog). First off I was trying various things with this drawing, I'm not particularly good at doing tight comic style line so I was using conte crayon and a smudging stick on this. I don't even know what I'm doing half the time so it's all about experimenting and having fun at the moment. I might do a second draft of it, strengthen various things, the form isn't so good, or the lighting and the pose could have a bit more life to it. But there you go, comments welcome as always and don't forget to check out the Uncanny Sketchmen blog for all the good stuff that's missing from your life.

Life Drawing part 2

A bit more life drawing here. The first are all 1 minute studies and the second is about 1 1/2- 2 hours spread over 2 weeks. I didn't quite nail that one, I find it difficult to do delicate shading with pastel but all in all one of the better life drawings I've done.I leant too heavilly with the white so it over dominates the shadow tones which are left as the natural colour of the paper. So close yet so far! Sketch club drawing comming next.

Life Drawing

And here for my sins is some recent life drawing. 

Batman

So a few of us have a monthly drawing thing going on, where each month we choose a theme and try and do a drawing. Of course me being slightly inept in the drawing department means that I am waaay behind but here is a quick sketch of Batman which I was meant to have done a month ago. All very fast,about 30 mins, very rough sketch, pretty all over the place..

It strikes me that this is slightly Joe Madureira, which is a complete coincidence as I'm not a big fan.

Now for the next installment in half the time!

Quick sculpt

Nothing exciting this month but I've spent the last while trying to make a good head base geometry to go into zbrush. So this is a test to see if it sculpted well enough and it does...which is handy :)

This was done very quickly in about an hour, so there's lots of detail that could have been added. Next months post should hopefully be back to drawing.

Life Drawing

Last weekend I attended Glasgow school of Art for a 2 day life drawing and anatomy class. So fantastic to get back to drawing and to have a teacher that actually well...teaches. We didn't tend to get this at Art College, the odd thing here and there but not much feedback. I've always wanted to improve my drawing and learn more about it, so I took the opportunity to bombard the tutor with questions and I learned an awful lot.

Here, I think my anatomy is relatively ok but my shading is all over the place- me and my dark charcoal but hey...that's me :)

I'm going to do more- this has got me buzzing again

Russian Iron Man

Oh and scraping the barrel but here's the model from earlier updates out of the bind position