Sitting Lady

Charcoal drawing from my figure drawing class at Crealde School of Art. My process was to rub charcoal powder all over the paper, and then add vine charcoal for the shadows, and take out the lights with a shammy cloth. It was pretty interesting, and I've decided that this is my new favorite technique to use charcoal now.

Jellyfish

I got a pad for Christmas that teaches children how to draw cartoon animals using numbers. However I just went ahead and painted my own version. I think you're supposed to rip these out every night and use them as placemats for children, so they can color while they eat. Clearly I have the mind of a child, because I got this in my 20's. -Hence why I love Macaroni Grille so much!

Mushroom Girl

I saw something like this in graffiti on the side of an old barn. It reminds me of Banksy my favorite graffiti artist who lives in England. His identity is unknown because he always wears a monkey mask and only goes out at night so as to avoid the police.

Monkey Study

Quick sketches of monkeys using my new favorite ink pen.

Hot Air Balloon Vehicle

I had a dream the other night that I was in the arctic, and I was inside this hot air balloon with a wheel on the bottom, and it would wheel across the ice flows, hopping from ice to ice. The entire front was a giant window and I was on the other side of it, steering the balloon throughthe arctic. I had no idea where I was going, but I knew I was on a mission to get somewhere.

Sitting Woman

Another charcoal piece completed in my figure drawing class at Crealde School of Art. There was no way I was going to wipe this one for the next pose.

Lounging Man

Nude drawing of man in my figure drawing class at Crealde. I started to rub out the paper using vine charcoal with a brown tint and then switched to black. It came out all pretty much the same color on the paper, but when I took a picture of it, all the brown came back.

Boxing Man

Mixture of brown and black charcoal, figure drawing from my Crealde class. I love the style of this piece, he came out kind of as a futuristic style, with the sharp angles in his legs and high contrast of the lights.

Nude Girl

Quick powdered charcoal figure drawing from my Crealde class. I only had five mins to draw before the model changed poses, and then we wiped the entire paper back to the basic charcoal background, and started over with a new pose. It was kind of depressing spending time on these drawings only to never see them again. You can still see the remnants of an old image in the background that was erased and long forgotten, replaced by this one....so I started taking pictures of the finished product, before I had to wipe it clean!

Charcoal Portrait

A charcoal profile view portrait of a model form my class at Crealde. I used the same technique for this one, where we covered the entire paper in charcoal powder.

Woman's Back

Just started my new charcoal figure drawing class at Crealde! It's a new style that I'm in love with and the charcoal powdered background makes everything pop so much more! The technique, is to cover your entire board with charcoal powder, which makes the base color, you can see this in the background. Then you draw in the dark areas with a charcoal pencil, and color them all in more. Next, you pull out the light areas with a shammy, which is basically a felt cloth that wipes away the powder. And for the tiny highlight spots, you can use a kneaded eraser, or really anything small enough that pulls the charcoal off of the paper. It's extremely messy, so I definitely had to take a shower every night after class. I also got my car a lot dirtier than I had planned too.

Bear the Dog

Another quick sketch of a dog made from my Wacom tablet. I'm trying out different software for it still, to see which one I like the best.

Johnny Ho the Rhino

Just bought myself a new Wacom tablet! Its a drawing pad that you can hook up to your computer. Hopefully it will help me out a lot in school and I'll actually use it a lot. This is a bit of me messing around on it, trying to figure out the pressure and sensitivity.

Elephant

Done with my 30 day challenge, it's been a while since I've posted something, but here is an elephant I drew the other day form my "Learning How to Draw Animals" book. I never truly looked at an elephant until now, and I never realized all the organic shapes that made up an elephant.

FINAL Day!!! Snail

My 30 days is finished! I did them all!!! I completed a project! Didn't get all of them posted on the exact days, but it was still fun. Time to extend it to 60 days? We will see! But here is a snail in my numbers to animals book for children. I went a little off from their direction.