Toys...

Still practicing....here's some toy sketches i did. Capturing woodstock's hair in 3d form is a real doozy. I can actually feel the gears in my head just churning to halt trying to process it.

Alessandra & friends....

My attempt at caricaturing one of the highest paid models in the world....

one more.....

Photo challenge

On his blog, John K mentioned that it's a good warm up to try and draw things you aren't comfortable with. So with that in mind, i grabbed a fitness mag off the shelf, and attempted to caricature the following image.

When it comes to drawing from a photo ref, i tend to get bogged down by the details, and i neglect a lot of the bigger things that are happening with the image. For example, after i inked my sketch i noticed i flattened the angles on both the guy/girl, standing them almost straight up and down, when in the pic they are kind of tilting towards each other. With "cartoonier" things, I always start with lines of action, but for some reason with photos, i tend to forget this step resulting in a stiff drawing.

Here's my redrawn sketch. Just trying to capture the rythm of each pose, and building all the muscles on top of it.

I blocked in the facial features trying to see what it is about them that i can exaggerate. The girl has an interesting forehead, and the guy's sucked in cheek bones makes him look like he's pouting. Also, his hands look really small compared to the rest of his features.

Here's my second attempt at caricaturing them. I feel i got the angle of their bodies better, but I totally blew it with the girl's forehead. All in all, i enjoyed the exercise a lot more than i thought i would.

Some poses

Saw some really great studies by Geneva over at John K's blog. Inspired me to try and draw some poses as well.

Tom

Haven't updated this blog in a while. Here's an Eisenberg Tom study....

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I'm really trying to take my time, and feel out the forms within my own drawings. Here's some results..

I really love the proportions of the queen in the Coal Black stills.

The dreaded Porky Pig cover....

I stumbled upon this comic cover on John K's site a few months ago. At the time i thought to myself, "how hard could it be to copy this?" Here was my first few attempts.






As you can clearly see, i didn't even have the will power to actually finish the image. I believe i was in shock by my complete inability to draw porky pig. After dozens of terrible sketches, i tossed them into a drawer and forgot the incident ever happened. This cover has haunted me ever since.



Here's my most recent attempt after about five weeks of going through the basic construction exercises on John's site. I was surprised by how much more confident i was when breaking down the image, and feeling out the basic shapes.

Here's the overlay