keeping the sketch-ability fit as a fiddle....

On a recent trip home to Houston, I caught a performance by Two Star Symphony, the string quartet who agreed to grace my final animation piece with their amazing music.

 

 

The sun agreed to grace Vancouver recently, so here are some sketches (best excuse to go outside on a great day!)

 And speaking of great days, if only I was always as 'on' as I was in my most recent life drawing class (I'm especially happy with the drawing on the right - it has the dynamism I struggle to get in longer poses).

long poses

sketchy.....

I don't have a great attachment to reality, and sketching is initially a bit like pulling teeth for me because I have to pay attention to the world outside of my own little one. but eventually the whole game of pencil spying on people becomes kind of addictive.

crude gestures

gesture is one of my favorite drawing exercises, because the looser, faster, rougher, and more vigorous i draw, the better the stuff looks. gesturing is kind of like independent film-production, where your brain just kicks into 'go, go, go, go!' problem solving in real-time mode. (look ma, it's a shameless plug for the movie i produced in my past life! if you like DIY cinema, action, hot chicks, and tongue in cheek humor, please buy our movie! our actors really need the love, and we really need the return on our life savings).

these are from early term II.

 

term III .

term IV. didn't realize it, but i actually have improved.

kids love robots!

1st term drawing project - design a robot with an actual function, using basic shapes. apparently the UN is having trouble eradicating polio in some regions because parents believe the inoculations are a sterilization conspiracy. i bet if you made the innoculator a big, lovable robot, kids would sneak away from home and school to get a shot.