Some of my stuff

Here are some more café drawings, most of them were drawn in the Starbucks at 64th and Granville, but some are done at the Boulevard café at UBC.

And here are some superheroes that we had to draw for design and colour theory. The teacher gave us a choice of 7 or 8 different names and we had to design a character that fits the name. I chose “The World’s Most Boring Woman,” “Tacky Man,” and “Dangeroso.” These are ink and pencil crayon on paper, but the scanner butchered the colours.

Life Drawing (Week 9)

Life Drawing (Week 8)

This week was pretty good in Life Drawing. We had the same model that we’ve had like 3 times now, but this time we were studying drapery and how clothing folds and such. Don’t have much else to say so here are the pictures:

Life Drawing (Weeks 6 & 7)

I didn’t post anything from my life drawing course last week, because I thought I did terrible. I was too pre-occupied thinking about a project that was due the next day to concentrate on what I was doing. Our model was Robin, the same woman we had for our first life drawing class.

This week we had a man named Alex for life drawing. I got bored drawing him near the end though, because ALL of his poses were reclining or laying down. Granted the lesson was on foreshortening, but there are ways of demonstrating that without just laying down the whole class.

November 13, 2007

I didn’t have a title for this post, because it is mainly going to consist of sketches I did in my free time.

This first piece, however, is an assignment I had for my Design and Colour Theory class. Our assignment was to make an editorial cartoon expressing our opinion. We couldn’t use any dialogue, and the only text we could use was stuff like signs (Starbucks, Safeway, etc.)

My opinion is that “Toast is the breakfast of Champions.” The image is of David standing on a conquered Goliath, eating a piece of toast.

These next sketches are for a Drawing and Perspective assignment, but they’re just practice. Our assignment is to create 20 compositions using 20 different mediums. We have to choose between fish, birds, or cats as the subject. I chose birds because you can only do so much with cats. I was going to choose fish, but we have A LOT of crows around school, and I thought it would be cool to do birds.

These two were drawn at work:

This next image was drawn at my Grandpa’s house. I was told by my Drawing and Perspective teacher that the best way to get better at drawing is to draw absolutely everything. So, sitting in my Grandpa’s house I decided to draw his Barometre.

And these last two pictures were drawn in the Starbucks at Granville and W 64th Avenue this evening. Monika and I went to Opus to get some art supplies for the aforementioned Drawing and Perspective assignment, and after that we went to Starbucks so I could work on yet another homework project (“Help, I’m drowning!”) Our assignment is to draw people in cafés. We have to draw 20 different gestures of people doing what people do in cafés. The first one I drew was a couple of women talking. The woman on the right did most of the talking, while the other woman patiently listened. And the second picture is of an Asian couple. The man is playing a game on his GameBoy, while his girlfriend/wife leans against him and watches.

Life Drawing (Week 5)

These were all done today (Oct 30, 2007) on newsprint, but with a china marker.

The china marker made a huge difference. It glides easier over the paper than any pencil I’ve used. And it is a lot easier to sharpen. If you wear out the end, you pull the string towards the back end, and peel the paper off. You don’t have to get out your sharpener and put it back. The only draw back to using a china marker is that you can’t erase it.

I think Today I began to understand what the teacher has been trying to teach us since the first class. He has a “sink or swim” way of teaching, because he’s used to teaching second and third semester students. But Today I think I did very well, and I’m starting to get this.

Anyways, to the sketches:

It would be great if I could upload the images in the order that I drew them so I could label them 30 seconds, 1 min, 2 mins, 5, 10, etc. Maybe next week I’ll write on the pictures what time I had to draw them. Easy way to figure it out is: if they’re poorly drawn/hardly finished, it took 30 seconds, a bit better is 1 min, most of the others are 2 minutes, and if I have the woman drawn out in the same pose more than once I had 5 or 10 minutes. The thing in the second image is the model’s shoulder. I was concentrating on it because if all the strength she was using to keep herself balanced.

Past Sketches

I plan on uploading my sketches on a daily/weekly basis, however, this entry will be all of my previous sketches up until now.

March 2007:

April 2007:

May 2007:

June 2007:

August 2007:

October 2007:

Life Drawing (Weeks, 2, 3, & 4)

I’ll apologize in advance, the medium my life drawing is done with is newsprint and an HB pencil. Today I used a 4B pencil, which is bolder, and thus easier to see, but I’m going to pick up a grease pencil tomorrow, which should make it a lot easier to see. The paper is 18 x 24, so scanning them is impossible, so I have to take pictures of them. When the flash is on, it makes it hard to see, and when it is off, the pictures are blurry.

These are drawings from Week 2 of my life drawing course. Our model was “Trevor” and apparently liked to wield swords.

These are from Week 3:

And these were all drawn today (Week 4.)
They’re easier to see, because instead of using a HB pencil I decided a 4B was much easier to draw with. I’m going to get a grease pencil, which will make it a whole lot easier to see.

And these are my first assignment, draw 10 hands and 10 feet. Which is hard, since I was my own model for most of the pictures.