Mom's visit to LA

My mom kindly sat for me while I painted a quick watercolor painting.

Figure Drawing

The model was BEARing it all this week at figure drawing. You see what I did there?

This week I brought along Animal Anatomy for Artists, by Eliot Goldfinger. For all the last pieces I just made up the animal parts so this time it was helpful to have animal reference. That being said, 20 minute poses don't exactly allow for much study and of course all of the lions in the book were facing left.

Figure Drawing

This week its an antler girl and a demon violin player. I've started to post my "modified" figure drawings on my tumblr, http://magicalmonsterpeople.tumblr.com/ . I'll still post them here but if you want nothing but magical monster people, thats a good place to go for it.

The violin in the second painting was not made up by me, the model was playing violin. It wasn't the first time that a model has played an instrument while modeling but its a pretty rare event. I was a little annoyed at first, it was extremely difficult to get my initial drawing down, though she kept her lower body surprisingly still throughout. Eventually, as I got further with the drawing, I settled into it and enjoyed the music.

Figure Drawing

This week I turned the model into a centaur and bug girl.

Figure Drawing

More figures from the Santa Monica YWCA figure drawing session. This time its a mindflayer/squidhead creature having a bad day and a snake man. I'm not sure if the snake man qualifies as a Naga or not.

a pencil sketch of this dude sitting up.

Figure Drawing

Sometimes its faster for me to make up body parts than to draw what I see. I don't worry about proportion or being anatomically correct I just draw it to look right-ish. As it turns out, a bunch of tentacles takes way longer than two legs. I only finished one of the characters in the allotted time rather than the usual two.

Figure Drawing

The faun legs were the most difficult fantastical additions to the figure drawings that I have attempted yet. I guess I only have a vague idea on how they are constructed and really only from the profile view. Front facing legs were pretty challenging when the only reference I had was the regular human in front of me. That is why it is important to be varied in my sketchbook, if I draw enough things I will be able to pull more accurately from memory.