Hi again. It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been distracted by life. I haven’t been totally idle, tho. I finished a few pages, but as I’m technologically inept, I don’t have word bubbles and I have no idea how to copy them to my deviant art page, let alone here on this blog. I use ink, not inkspot!
On the plus side, my friend scanned them in for me and they look great. I really want to get more loose with my style, more natural and more flow; maybe that will come with practice or at least with coolness (ie: I groove more myself, maybe it’ll rub off… I digress).
Also on the plus, JP and Denny, two artist bros of mine, got me to come out to life drawing. I’m going to do it as often as I can. The first time was fun, a bit crowded… and the model was a dude. I mean, he was happy to be there (and I mean haaaaaappy, and I’m not talking about his face), and as a professional who does draw a lot of buff dudes all day, I don’t mind. The guys and I had fun, but let me tell you it is really taxing to just sit there and draw… some model. I mean, what am I trying to do? Just go and draw? fast, slow, I don’t know.
I tried copying what I saw, and it did and didn’t come out right. There were lots of people, and I like to think mine were okay; but there was this one guy doing his on dark manilla paper, with different colored conte, and it was sweet. Very precise but interesting to look at. Maybe I should try being loose, but eventually work up to doing full on perspective grids and contour lines? Not with charcoal, though, but we’ll see. That would be cool.
Next Wednesday I’ll have a sweet new board and paper to do it with, thanks to my mother-in-law who is an art teacher (and proud of me for doing this, so: sweet action!)
Okay, more later.
