Gesture collection

A little collection of sketches from morning gesture-drawings.

I could definitely feel it had been a while, felt all rusty in the far croquis-corners of my brain...

Dance Animation

Very rough - too rough, actually; but I went loose this time becuase of experimentation. Clean-up failed spectacularly because of this. So here's the rough animation, just the motion, no character... I still like this, but I should've picked a character I could actually sketch freely...

Looks like croquis come-to-life because of that brush-choice.

Croquis done in Light Blue Prismacolour - yes, the un-scannable. Which was a bad choice of course, because I couldn't use my OWN scanner to scan these pages. Had to use the fancy, powerful ones at school which actually CAN pick up that shade of blue.

Didn't dare think at the time, I was finally on a roll, making lines that I liked and I love the rough blue look, so I regret nothing! WIll probably use coloured-sketch pencils more often for these things...

 Small sketching seesion with friends out in Viborg during the first peek of lovely weather we've seen this year so far...

And then I had to get ice cream... No other option.

croquis 2011 - Febuary 1st

Ah, it's been a while since i sat down and watched a nude person for an hour with the alibi that it's research and extra-curricular...
It's nice to be back in the croquis game, so here's a compilation of my first (quite belated) croquis sketches of 2011.

People sketches

Learning about values has helped me understand how to indicate facial features faster... I like this sign of progress. I'm almost comfortable with doing these now.

Oh well, here's two page of it made with a 2B pencil.(pardon the class-notes)

Freestyle (from the fancy leatherbound)

I have this really old-fashioned leather hand-bound book that I bought in China. I absolutely love it, it's one of a kind (although the paper is not the best for drawing), but I constantly find myself thinking "I am not worthy of defiling this cool-looking book with my feeble sketches!"

Ever so often I will make attempts anyway - and because of the brownish paper it's great for experimenting with coloured pencils...

Also for hard light and highlights I experimented with a white-out pen.

And last, a few sketches of my classmates paying attention in class... I had forgotten that I actually enjoy making these. Since the Drawing Academy I've gone back to that comfort zone of not drawing people; this made me realize I had little to worry about. So you'll probably see more of these.

Some of my stuff from "The Drawing Academy"

Last long-study (here a self-portrait) I did at The Drawing Academy.

 I always found the muscles of the back quite tricky, so this angle was a challenge, but good practice.

 One of the earlier long-studies...

 Aaaaaand CROQUIS TIME!

 Portrait of the model. I love this study; I was sitting up close and got this dramatic angle because the model was elevated.