New life drawings

Here are some new ones from Saturday's life drawing session at UC Berkeley. The do a 40 minute pose for the last pose of the day, which is a pretty long time for me to spend on one pose without painting. Gonna have to work on my rendering skills.

Lifelong Final

I love the feeling I get when I finish a painting I've been working on for a while. It feels great to see something through to the end. Here's the latest one from our now bi-weekly illustration activity. I've been really busy with work the last couple weeks, so this one ran a little longer than planned. This one is a self-portrait of sorts. When I saw the new word, this was the first thing that came to mind. I can't think of a lot of things that I know I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

Word of the Week Illustration - Serenity

A friend and I have started doing a "Word of the Week" illustration. Every week one of us chooses a word, and then we have a week to create an illustration based on the word. Nothing has to be "finished" necessarily, it's just a good way to keep working on our skills. I got to choose the word for the first one.

Dr. Sketchy's

Two months already since my last post. Slackin'! Hopefully now that the holidays and last year's crazy holiday game season are done with I will be updating more. I finally broke down and bought a 360; been playing a lot of Gears 2 and Left 4 Dead co-op with my brother.

Here are some new ones from this weeks Dr. Sketchy's. I guess this one was the last session at Bombshell Betty's. Hopefully they find a new place to do these. The next two are at 111 Minna, which should be pretty cool. This week's model was Holly Highbeams, who is apparently, a real life librarian. I guess you never know what the quiet lady who is checking out your books does off the clock!

Life drawing at UC Berkeley

After way too long without a regular life drawing session to go to, I finally found out about the drop-in sessions at UC Berkeley on Fridays and Saturdays. I hadn't really done any figure drawing since the Gallery Girls session in September, so it took me a while to get in the groove. It didn't help that the model was doing all kinds of crazy contorted, and lying poses. The lying pose tends to be the bane of a lot of artists I know, including myself. It really takes you out of the standing figure comfort zone.

Bombshell!

Here's a pinup girl I've been working on for a friend of mine. He wanted something similar to one you might find on the side of a WWII era plane. He asked me if I could do a cute girl, riding a bomb, with a beer. Sounded like fun, and not something I normally do. I ended up spending a lot longer on it than I first intended, but I'm pretty happy with the end result.

Saturday in Santa Cruz

Here are a couple of sketches from a little road trip down to Santa Cruz on Saturday. Getting to see all of the sea lions under the pier was really cool. Being on the boardwalk made me want to watch The Lost Boys again.