First half of April

Has it really been more than two weeks already? I could have sworn that I'd updated since the beginning of the month, at least.

Well, here's the results of the last two weeks. A mix of gestures, fanart, studies, and finished pieces.

1-30-11 Zoo Sketches

One would think, since I'm a volunteer at the zoo, that I'd go there more often and draw the animals. Unfortunately, not the case. But I did go for brief visit today and drew. These sketches are usually 30 seconds to about a minute each, for pretty obvious reasons.

Dragon*Con 2009 art

The previous weekend was Dragon*Con, and it was an opportunity to do a little bit of art. Most prominent opportunity was a ConceptArt.org meet-up at one of the artist's studio-loft. It was a lovely place and the atmosphere was so warm. I slowly warmed up to the people there, though I was a little awkward because I was probably the only one there who's not a professional artist. We were very luck in that one person, Emma, was able to get a model to come in. It's been forever since the last time I'd done any life drawing from a model, making it awkward for me to get the drawings done but very enjoyable to use the opportunity.

In addition to the life drawing at the meet up, I got a little sketching done towards a Princess Tutu exchange drawing. I have some changes to make to the sketch below in order to get it to work, but the overall idea is there.

And lastly, I entered the quick sketch contest held on Monday before heading out. I went in with the intention of doing a sequential piece, but I couldn't focus on any one story moment and simply went with the little mechanic girl image. I didn't win, but one of the judges did commend me on creating an image with a story behind it, which is a plus in book. Maybe next year.

banks

Sorry I haven't been posting too many Art Grind images of late. It's a bit of a pain to upload twice. If you want to see the ones to date, go check out my album here.

I'm trying to get into the habit of taking a sketchbook with me more frequently, and actually using it while out. As a start, here are some sketches I did while waiting at the bank.




Each individual took about a minute each. Hard to do because people would move or someone would block my view.