andy’s art blog

Some sketches from the 16th SketchCrawl this last Sunday – head over to the sketchcrawl forum to see other sketches from around the world :)

Wow, ok, long time between posts. I have an excuse though; I’ve been working on some animation bits for my reel, and have had little time in between for drawing etc. I’ll be posting said animation in the next couple of weeks. But! I finally got to doing some more animal drawings, which was a [...]

The drawing below is from Wednesday night’s life drawing, it was the last and I think most successful of the night’s sketches. It’s definitely more direct than my usual life drawing approach – working in pen tends to have that effect – no initial prep work. I was focussed on searching out the shapes made [...]

Below is a figure drawing from Thursday’s session, with darks and lights accentuated in Photoshop. The more I look at master drawings (old as well as more recent), the more I’m wanting to try and push the design and shapes of the model to better give an impression of the feeling of the pose. I [...]