Nerdy Giraffe

Hipster Giraffe: I wanted to mess with watercolors a little more, so I tried to stay within only using a few colors while I got used to it. Therefore a giraffe seemed like the perfect subject. He needed a little spark, so I gave him a bow tie and some glasses.

Machu Picchu

A concept painting, painted digitally with my wacom table in photoshop. We had to paint out a scene that we were going to model in 3d for a class assignment. I chose to do Machu Picchu in Peru. I got a book of pictures of the village, and I became obsessed with it. Now all I want to do is go there and hike the Incan trail. I might have to train for that first...

Nude 18

A nude created in my figure drawing class with brown charcoal. I'm in love with the dynamics in this one. The contortion of the body was very appealing to me. I even stopped halfway through the 3 mins, to imagine it from another angle and draw it all over again.

Nude 17

A nude created in my figure drawing class with brown charcoal. This picture is also appealing to me in the motion aspect. In the bottom drawing, I like the curve of the body, and the contradictory angles of the hips and the shoulders. The top one shows a lot of weight to it with the strong contrapasso stance.

Nude 16

A nude created in my figure drawing class with green charcoal. I started out with the even tone of green to show color, darkened in the shadows, and erased out the highlights. In order to also show light against the background, I colored in outside of the body to see where the most highlighted areas were.

Nude 20

A nude created in my figure drawing class with red charcoal. The image on the left shows motion and therefore I like it much better than the one on the right. It also has a much stronger line of action and fluidity to it. It's hard to get much emotion out of a standing figure, even though he allows for it by use of the hand gesture.

Nude 15

A nude created in my figure drawing class with pen. This one was tough because of the foreshortening on her right leg. She's sitting on it, and since you can't see much of the leg, the weight shift feels off. Same with the right arm. It's hard to get a ground plane feeling to it.

Nude 14

A nude created in my figure drawing class with charcoal. This was another example of covering the whole paper with charcoal in order to get the flat even lighting. From there, I add in dark for shadows, and erase for the highlights. The darkness of the background brings out the even tone, to show where in the environment the light is coming from.

Nude 13

A nude created in my figure drawing class with charcoal. This one was a 20 minute pose so I got to add in more detail. I covered the paper in charcoal, and went to town from there. After getting the basic gesture, and angles. I shade in by either adding more charcoal, or pulling out by erasing. This is another example of how foreshortening can be difficult because of the legs.

Nude 12

A nude created in my figure drawing class with orange charcoal. I am loving the squash on his behind in this one. It brings out the weight. What I would change though, would be his lean. His body is curved away from the chair with the line of action, but it doesn't show that he is actually leaning on the back of it for support.

Nude 11

This is a nude created in my figure drawing class that I made with charcoal. I really like this one, because of the foreshortening on his legs, and the angles that they create against each other. The arms still need some work though, but I like how the weight is distributed through this guy.

Nude 10

A nude created in my figure drawing class with a charcoal pencil. This one looks pretty rough in terms of proportions. Especially with the left arm. But I started to pull out the darks and lights by shading in more shadows.

Nude 9

A nude created in my figure drawing class using charcoal. This one has a nice line of action that flows down through the head and all the way to the tip of the foot. I like the curve of the spine verses the sharp angles of the legs. Now if only he had a chair...

Nude 7

A nude created in my figure drawing class with orange charcoal. The pose is pretty linear, so I chose to focus on the contours of the body more so than the form and action. While focusing on those, I started to see more of where the lights and darks were hitting, and the sharp edges of those as well.

Nude 6

A nude created in my figure drawing class with green charcoal. I really like this one for the angle of her head. The pose came out very poised, and it has a nice curve to it, even though she's sitting up straight. The foreshortening on the legs and arms seem like they're working pretty well for me too.