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Archive for May, 2007

May Gestures

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Gosh it’s nice to loosen up with a few gestures, I’ve been doing a lot of long term figure drawings lately, I felt it was getting a little stale. Gesture drawings are much more fun and challenging to do, for me.
Push the pose, get the action, capture the character. Do it in 2 minutes flat.
Here […]

Sketchcrawl and others

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

A couple of sketches from Saturday’s SketchCrawl, you can check out more sketches from around the world here.
Also below are some recent quick sketches… mmm, there seems to be an Asian motif running through these…

Monday Figures

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Lazy Lionesses

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Disgruntled Businessman

Friday, May 11th, 2007

A return to the basics - a walk cycle. Here I tried to inject a clear personality/attitude into the walk, hopefully it comes across okay.
Crits and comments are welcome as always :)
Click the image to view the Quicktime movie (1.77MB, 768×576) , or middle click in Firefox to open the movie in a new tab.

Lion Quick Sketches

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I’m very much addicted to these little Moleskine blank notebooks - the reporter style is particularly nice to use. Not the thicker paper, the thin stuff; plenty of pages, super smooth to draw on, and great for keeping in your pocket for sketching. On a related note, check out Mark Kennedy’s series of posts on […]