Life Drawings- 1st July 2021- Modern Queer Heroes Workshop.

 I'm so glad I managed to attend this life drawing session, run by Kate Jessop, inspired by her recent film project, Modern Queer Heroes, in which the model posed themself in poses inspired by the 14 people they featured in this collaborative film.  So here are the drawings. 

The first quick sketch was based on George Michael... because of the jacket. 

This one was based on Lady Phyll.

This was based on the musician, Frank Ocean.

This pose was based on Denise Ho.

This pose was based on Janelle Monae. 

This pose was based on the comic book artist, Alison Bechdel.

This pose was inspired by Fox Fisher.

This one was influenced by the YouTuber, Natalie Wynn. 

This one was inspired by the group, Christine and The Queens.

This was inspired by the model, Munroe Bergdorf.

This was influence by the works of Gregg Araki.

This one, which is my personal favourite, was inspired by the musician and activist, Chardine Taylor Stone. 

This pose was inspired by the works of Judith Butler

The final one was inspired by the works of Travis Alabanza.

I'll be honest, this is the first time I've done any life drawing in years, let alone on Zoom. I enjoyed it, and there are plenty of personalities to check out from this film. 

Inktober- Day 28- Fon Fon Cover Study and Life Drawing

Managed to do a few pieces yesterday, with a study of a vintage magazine cover, titled Fon Fon, that a good Facebook friend shared the other day. I need to do more studies of other people's works just to fully understand how they are doing things on a constructional level, such the foldings on Father Christmas' sleeves.
The life drawing, en route to Oxford for another meeting followed by some open mic antics, is pretty good. 

Inktober- Day 22- Life Drawings

There were not successful, but then again, my mind on trying to do some errands, including being an extra for a film being shot that day. 

Inktober- Day 21 - Life Drawing

I drew this on the way to my first open mic night performance in Oxford. I'm quite pleased with the detail I got on the right figure here. 

Inktober- Day 16- Comic Colouring and Life Drawings.

Wow! I had a productive, and I'm liking what the marks are making that I did doing some life drawings today. The comic is for a potential paid assignment, hence the censored faces.

Inktober- Day 15- Life Drawings

I'm quite liking the marks I'm making when I do life drawing on the buses with this dual-head brush pen. I quite like the marks with the smaller nibs on this study.

Inktober- Day 13- Life Drawing

Yeah Sunday there wasn't much time to do any drawing, except this quick life drawing on the bus. Like how I got in the legs and the hands surrounding the hands of this figure.

Inktober- Day 9- Life Drawing and Script Doodles

Wednesday was another busy day with another thing on in the evening. Luckily, I managed to do a slightly more convincing quick life drawing of this figure on the bus, as well as do some doodling during my meeting. One of those figures doodled reminds of that footman from Jan Svankmajer's Alice.

Inktober- Day 8- Life Drawings

Tuesday was a bit busy for me because of work commitments so I did some life drawing on the bus. The top one looked too messy to read, so I managed to do just an ink drawing on the same subject. They are okay in my book, but not convincing to depict what the figure was whilst on the bus. Luckily I did a still life of this bicycle, but I wished I drew the background as well to give it context. 

Inktober- Day 21- Life Drawing

I started using another sketchbook today to do life drawings, and I'm quite pleased with the mark-making with the ink pen I managed to fish out for today, being an old caligraphy ink pen. I also like the composition of this life drawing of a couple, especially with that mark denoting a bus seat in front of them.

OxGrowArts Workshop Pieces- 22nd June 2017

After hesitating until the last minute, I decided to go to this Painting and Drawing Workshop organised by OxGrowArts, situated at Hogacre Common Eco Park in Oxford. Here are the drawings I made there, sit intact in my sketchbook before they are removed and framed for their exhibition at the end of July next month.

My first piece was probably my most successful piece from that workshop, calling it Flower Study. Basically, this is a still-life study of some flowers that feature some buds flowering more than others do. I just love how I went on a journey with my brush pen, getting lost in the detail of all those negative spaces and shapes this flower was making. I am not an expert in flowers, but it gave a pink/purple flower when the bud was in bloom. I was advised to try out adding some colour. Therefore, I did...

... In addition, this happened! I loved the shape this 'vegetable' was making with its leaves. I wanted to get the shapes that the leaves were forming. However, acrylic paint was not behaving the way I wanted to do. Therefore, I ended up with just these abstract blobs on the page, and that is what they will ever be now before I ruin it even further. I called this piece "How Not to Paint Vegetables."

 

 After the acrylic omnishambles, I had time to do a quick study with my tried-and-tested brush pen, just called "Log." Therefore, I tried to sketch out this log near their pond. Not as convincing as my flower study, but I like the marks I made to frame the negative shapes that the leaves and log were forming. Not a complete disaster in my book, but something I should have spent more time establishing the objects in that space.

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The Blinddraw Challenge Drawings

Remeber that Blinddraw Challenge I did at the start of the month? Probably not, but I finally got around to scanning those drawings I did during that challenge. The first three were my initial attempts whilst I try to frame myself and my sketchbook in the confines of my bedroom. The bottom one was the one used for the video, whilst the others were sped up as an extra treat for anyone that wanted to see them.

Life Drawing- Two Women in Conversation on Bus

I think it's time to ditch this old brush pen, as it starting to make really weak marks when I'm using it. Apart from that, this is okay, although I need to get more confident with conveying hair with the brush pen.

Life Drawing- Old Man with Poppy in Cap

I was able to do my life drawing on the bus again. I was quite pleased with my result with drawing just the man's head, whilst the detail on the bus window might be a bit too abstract amongst the scribbly mark-making I was making on the right.

Life Drawing- Teenager on Bus with Smartphone

I know Inktober is over, but I will try and continue to do life drawings whenever I'm on the bus. So here's a teenager on the bus on his smartphone.

Inktober- Day 24- Life Drawing

 

Did some life drawing on the bus today. Whilst the hair wasn't as rugged as it was in real life, and it was unfinished because they left for their stop, I quite like the minimalist marks on the seating. 

Inktober- Day 22- Life Drawing (Woman on Bus with Trolley)

I tried to do some life drawing on the bus, but the trip was so wobbly, that I wasn't pleased with it whilst doing this. It's not too bad, although I would've liked some more definition with the trolley and her hands. There's always another day.

Inktober- Day 21- Still Life from Garden

I decided to do something different today, so I took inspiration from the family garden. I was quite pleased at how this worked as a composition, although I might have gone overboard with some of the wispy mark-making for all of that plantlife.

Inktober- Day 18- Life Drawing

I might be a bit rusty after all of that illustrative work lately, but this drawing of man in a hat and glasses was a pretty reasonable effort.

Inktober- Day 15- Character Study and Drawing

I had to add an additional character to my piece. So I managed to do a quick study from an image I did some research for the piece, then managed to quickly draw a cartoon take on that study in the pose that I needed the character to be in for the final piece - hence the censored head on the right.