Cafe Sketch Week 06 Class Model and Ballet Met 022814

This week we had a model for the first half and then went to the Ballet Met for the second half. I feel like I got tons of great drawings of the model and this week I felt more confident in drawing the ballerinas. Here are my five best drawings.

Cafe Sketch Week 06 Muscular Tension HW 022814

This week we had to draw 40 examples of muscular tension in sheets of 10. I chose to draw the Strong Man competition from various sources on the internet. It was a lot of fun, but also I felt like I got bogged down on some of the musculature. I also had some issues digitizing the images as we needed to have the whole sheet as one image. My scanner was too small and for some reason, my camera wasn't wanting to take correctly exposed images tonight. Anywho, have a look at some ripped dudes being manly.

Cafe Sketch Week 05 Chiller Drawings

This week we went back to the Chiller in Easton to draw figure skaters again. I felt that drawing them was a little easier this time as I remembered many of the poses that I saw from our last outing. However, I think I may have gotten a little too comfortable with this session. When I was flipping through my sketchbook I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to post for this week, but not because I had too many good ones. The last time, I remember thinking I had tons of sketches I wanted to post, but this time I found myself drawing many identical poses. It didn't help that the skaters mostly went away during the second half of class either. However, that could all just be in my head. I drew several pages worth of the figure skaters, but I would have liked to have had more time with them last class.

I started drawing the free skaters on the other rink, but many of those drawings ended up feeling awkward, because, well, most of the people couldn't skate. Overall, I think I ended up with a few nice sketches that were a bit more dynamic than last time. I discovered a really nice technique of drawing with a Copic Marker to get the gesture and then quickly drawing over the marker with a pen to get the form. I feel like the ones I did in that style ended up the most successful. I also experimented with other markers and brush pens during class to vary things up a bit.

Cafe Sketch Week 04 Homework Clothed Figures in Motion 021414

This week we had to draw 50 clothed figures wearing loose clothing and in motion. It took a bit to find good reference, but I eventually stumbled across some channels on YouTube that had really nice videos of dancers in various loose dresses and long skirts. After I was all done, I played around with my new Copic marker and put some quick shading on my favorites for fun.

Cafe Sketch Week 04 Classwork Model and Ballet Met 021414

This week we drew from a model in the classroom and then went to Ballet Met to draw the dancers. It was really fun getting to watch the dancers at Ballet Met, but it was also super challenging. I thought it was a good exercise in remembering poses. I didn't like many of the sketches I did there, but I hope that with more practice at super fast drawing, I'll eventually be able to draw them well.

Cafe Sketch Week 3 Anatomy Studies 020714

For homework this week we had to trace over the drawings we did in class with skeletons and musculature. Many of my drawings were heavily foreshortened and seated so it was a little difficult to find more gestural poses for this assignment.

Cafe Sketch Week 3 Classwork 020714

This week we drew from two different models. I really enjoyed drawing this week because we did lots of 30 second poses, and I feel like those helped the energy of my drawings. However, I also had a hard time because many of the poses ended up being repetitious seated positions and I often ended up with an awkward view. I tried moving around but it didn't really help. Anyway, here are the five drawings I felt were the best from the session.