Stuff from Life Drawing, Spring 08

Finally time for a real update!

Here are some of my better drawings from my life drawing class this past term. These aren't the best photos but oh well. A few I have posted before, and then 3 of my best drawings are hanging at school, and I didn't get pics of those darn it! By the end of the term I had really taken to ball point pen of all things, and started to develop a hatching style that has carried over into my sketchbooks. I kinda like it. =)


The one above was the first day of the term in January. My instructor had me give her my best drawing of the day (the one above) so she could hang onto it and use it to compare it to my stuff towards the end of the term to see how far I'd come. I was actually pretty ticked 'cuz I felt that I had an unusually good drawing day and thought I might not improve that much in 4 months.
















That's it for now, thanks for viewing!

Speed Sculpt

I spent about an hour sculpting this in Zbrush, starting with a generic head I made in Modo. And the results... are pretty generic, but it was nice to get to do some Zbrushing again after so long at least!

Still alive!

This term was such a nightmare I haven't had time to post anything... until now! Well, soon anyways. I have a lot of stuff to photograph/scan from the past couple months, so I'll try to do that this week. Thanks for checking back!

Never done, only due...

Well I guess I felt a little too sure of how far along I was heading into this past weekend, which resulted in having to scramble all day yesterday (Sunday) trying to get this thing buttoned up. Needless to say I didn't *quite* get this piece to the level of refinement that I would have wanted to achieve, but I'm overall really happy with how it turned out. This is a definite contender for a portfolio piece if I spend a little more time tightening it up.

- insert big sigh of relief here -

Wow what a lot of work this was.

Who're you lookin at?

Face is getting close to done, but I guess we got an extension 'til next Monday. Nice!

Face off!

Well it occurred to me last night that my full size sculpture didn't have the same tilt in the face as the maquette, and it had lost a lot of the gesture because of it. So I worked up the nerve and took a large kitchen knife and cut the face off entirely and rotated it slightly - it looks much better now. =)


Here's what it looks like right now. Due in two days; I have a feeling Tuesday night is going to be a long night...

This is taking forever...

Well I have the skeletal wings completed now. The wire screen is more or less sewn to the PVC "lower arm bone" with very thin metal wire, with a bead of glue along the edges of the screen to keep it from fraying too much. I also used thicker wire for the longer finger bones, which will not only add support but give me a guide to follow when I'm putting on clay.

Okay, back to work!