Synful

Besides working on my SAWgust project, I am also taking a class called Dynamic Drawing from Syn Studio École d'Art. It has turned out to be mostly a process class, so I haven't posted much product so far, but this week's homework was kind of fun, so here it is:

 We took a freeze frame from a video and first did a contour drawing of the figure:

 

Then we filled in a little detail:

Then we added some anatomy:

 

(Here's the anatomy alone)

Then we had to do a contour from memory:

Making marks, that what it's about!

Stripping

Here's the first homework from Intro to cartooning class at 92Y.

I'm not sure it's done yet. I think it needs more heavy blacks, but I don't know whether I want to color some of the clothing, just do a lot of cross-hatch shading, or throw in some shadows.

Sketchsplosion

So, for the past couple of months I have been taking a community ed drawing class: ten two-hour Monday sessions. Mostly it was technique exercises, but it was good just to be putting pencil to paper regularly. Hanging out with other draw-ers was pretty fun, too, and the instructor was a hoot and a half. Anyway, here's a selection of some stuff that was interesting enough to post.

(Sorry about scan quality.)

We spent some time on perspective drawing.

 An eyeball

We did some gestural drawing, sketches from life in three or four minutes.
 

Another gestural - perhaps my favorite work of the class.
 

Profile, from a photo.

My Doc Martens brogue - our first drawing of the class, actually.

Some composition exercises - the only time we used color.

A swimmer - from a photo in a 20 minutes.

Self-portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man.

On my way to getting out those 10,000 bad drawings.