So I thought I’d travel light to work yesterday without my bag full of camera equipment and sketchpads and magazines and technical documents and library books, and invariably stumbled on all kinds of interesting stuff as I was leaving work. It seems like the universe waits for me to not have my camera on hand [...]
Monkey Theme
June 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Drawing, Observations, Ottawa
Tags: camera·dancing monkey·Drawing·Model T·Monkey Joe's·old guys
New Sketchbook
May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Drawing
I bought my first new sketchpad in over a year, and christened it before my next lifedrawing workshop with a big 12 by 12 inch Ninja Turtle. I doodled it in because it was fun to draw, I wanted to mess around with linework and practice my shading, and I needed to get something onto [...]
Tags: Drawing·New Sketchbook·Pencil·Raphael·tmnt
Figure Drawing
March 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Drawing, Observations
I finally made it out this evening to a figure drawing class I’d been invited to weeks ago – Andrea suggested I might get hit by a boulder this afternoon before making it out of the office, since something seems to always come up on Wednesdays out of nowhere.
Doing figure studies was totally invigorating, though, [...]
Tags: Drawing·figure studies
Drawing Robots Is Fun
January 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Drawing
My doodling projects are coming along. I think, like anything, it’s just important to find some time to work on it a little bit every day. This is a three-armed Droid I’ve drawn up for Amber’s Star Wars movie – I’m trying to do up a set of robots I can model in 3d and [...]
Tags: doodle·Drawing·robot·sketching
Drawing Practice
January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Drawing
I always worry when I post an intentionally badly drawn picture that people are going to take it seriously – Natasha made a comment the other day about my hockey players that made me a little anxious. It reminded me that maybe it’d be nice to do some polished personal projects now and then.
It’s not [...]
Tags: Drawing·time management·tmnt