No Nose Seadog

I'm continuing my Photoshop practice, and I got to say that Photoshop is actually a lot of fun to use - time really flies with it. Fun fun fun :D

Anyway, I wanted to do something different this time, instead of a face I started out with an octopus kinda creature. Ten minutes in, it's a face...

With all this Photoshop going on, I thought it best to do something quick in Painter.

I'm feeling good about it :D

- Jonas

Head Sketches

I think I've talked about some sketches I did recently, and that you'd see them once I came by a scanner, which I did earlier today. Drawn in front of my laptop, listening to podcasts and CHIUstream interviews.

Some misses inbetween, but generally I'm happy with them. Great working with the pencil like this again. Details and such.

Now for something else. This past week has been one of my best. Learned so much and had so much fun doing it that next week has me worried. I mean, will it be as good or will it be a letdown? I hope this week's successes will keep me motivated for a long time and keep me going, and going better.

Here's hoping for an awesome next week. Cheers!!

Jonas

Chalk Studies

On Friday, the last day of drawing practice, we did studies, the key idea being to tkae our sweet time, noticing and including details. Sounds boring on top of Thursday's quickpaced figure drawing, but it was actually quite fun and time again passed too quickly. The idea was to model and mold the subject in black chalk on a piece of paper, only paying attention to the form (though light and reflection were added when it came to the bow), using light and dark to explain distance and depth. Here are the drawings of the day.

That last one was done from a photograph, likeness lost completely. As you see I am quite messy in working with chalk - it was even said that I seemed to be drawing with my sleeve on the bow drawing - I kinda like it :D

- Jonas

Figure Drawing

The drawing exercises continued today with figure drawing, or croquis. Now, this had me all kinds of excited - I mean, every artist I know speaks highly of the subject, and finally I would be able to give it a shot. Indeed, muy muy excited.

I worked with pencil first, but I don't like them much so here's a single one:

The pencil ones ranged from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes.

Then we were given chalks, reddish brown, maybe Burnt Sienna, I don't actually know. Anyway, this was fun. It was easier to keep the drawing loose and I had fun fleshing out the form and shadows. It was a very messy method, chalk everywhere. These were done in 3-4-6 minutes.

 

We then continued with water-solluble earth-colors - colors pulled, as they are, from the ground. I'll share those some other day - they need to dry properly.

Something I really enjoyed about th whole thing, was that after a while of drawing we were told to put four of our best/latest drawings on our board and then go around and look at everyone else's work. Very inspirational in the midst of things. Also It seems to have been a good thing for us to do the other execises first - they helped us build some speed in these ones.

Cheers!!

- Jonas

Drawing Exercises

This week is all about drawing. It's not something that is taught at the school, so they've brought in some guest teachers for a week of intense drawing. Today's focus was expressive drawing, and while I like my stuff to look like something, it was actually quite fun, albeit somewhat unnatural.

Here's some of my favourites from the day. Drawn after photos and comicbook pages.

- Jonas

Things Going On

Kinda feels like I went underground there for a moment. I've been very busy preparing for a new phase in my life - I'd tell you what exactly, but at present I have no idea how to explain it in English, because of many possible misunderstandings.

Anyway, a lot of my time has gone with setting up a little 11.6" laptop to suit all my creative needs, testing its capabilities and such. It's looking good so far. Got around to installing my tablet - Wacom Bamboo - here's the first sketch I did with it on my laptop.

Nothing overly exciting, of course, but I'm pretty excited about the whole thing. Plus I've been focusing on simplicity recently.

~Jonas

Quicky Robot

Late night speedpaint.

Also, did a Chiustream just now. Bobby had us "copying" a piece by Frederic Leighton as a learning experience. Actually quite fun.

About the banner, I've tested some colors and fixed the sketch a bit, but I'm still not totally happy with it, but it's getting there.

Something Traditional

Here's something I've been working on over the holiday, on and off, just to keep me at it.

Drawn with a technical pen on colored construction paper without pior sketching, and colored with some colored pencils, I had lying around. Getting it inside the computer was a hassle, but I survived :)

Some Quickies

Like the title says, here are some quick pieces as well as some more practice. I think the one with the cow has potential.

J. Seiler

This is (supposed to be) a caricature of Jason Seiler, for another Chiustream challenge. It might have been a mistake to omit his eyes, but I think this looks okay.

Bellboy

Just wanted to post this before I go and watch Identity(the movie). The Bellboy.