Crayon Sketches

The Eyes

The Hands

I was asked to draw some pictures for the children at church for 5 Sundays. Each day I was asked to draw a specific body part during the children's service. Since it was for the kids, and I would be sitting with them, I decided to go with crayons!!! I'm pretty happy with the drawings, especially the eyebrows!

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

This Wednesday, we had Jeremy model. He's playing Howie in the Center's production of "Our Town", so we had him in costume for some of the poses.

Howie delivering the milk.

Howie talking to Mrs. Webb.

This is not Howie, and it's a rather sad disheveled-looking hobo.

Here's a smart upwardly mobile individual, about to leap into the fray.

Anyway, hope you enjoy these drafts, I'll be posting some more as things progress.

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

Here's my sketches from tonight's Life Drawing.

Bohemeo's Sketches

Some sketches from the bands at Bohemeo's last night. It was a great show!

Happy Halloween

Oh No! Somewhere in New Jersey!!! It's Halloween!

If I was fuzzy and scaly and kinda fat and had big teeth and glowing eyes would you still luv me? hahaha

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

Amanda did a great job modeling tonight. Here's what I got.

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

This was an all crayon sketch night. My goal was to get every pose, and find something to use in a larger crayon piece.

First image of the night. Liked the movement, might be worth a larger scale.

This one was pretty funny. ran out of time on it, the head really unfinished

This ended up being to cropped I think. And it was hard to get it dark enough (didn't want to use black on it).

I liked this one a lot. Again, ran out of time, and it's a bit to light but would work in a bigger version.

Believe it or else, this is not pencil. It's crayon. black white and gray, but crayon.

This one was very interesting because of the shadows. I'll need to set this up again. The figure looks out, the bottom shadow looks down, the top shadow looks up (good noses on shadows too)

New Model

YAY, yellow chair! This pose actually had really great lighting. I think I should've gone black and white on it.

Didn't really want to post this, but I try to be honest. This wasn't working, but I'm gonna work on it some more. I should've started with the hands.

Quick sketches. Good poses last night!

I think this is my favorite of the night. It really captured the model.

This is my second favorite. I wish the paper was a little longer, and the pose too. I had a lot of problems with paper this night. I kept using newsprint, and I just cant erase like I'm used to on it. I was planning to remove a lot of color from this one, but nevermind.

This is third favorite, simply because I ran out of time and didn't get it as finished as I could have. It's a really good start though (I think).

Postcards

These are pics of the postcards I'm submitting to the Elder Street Gallery show in October.

and in paint

This may come back again later, though not like this. Here's the painting based on the sketch. Sometimes I loose all detail on these 6 inch paintings :(.

Anyway, though no one may want it, I promised an explanation to go with the painting. To put it simply its about disconnected emotions. Disconnected in the fact that the target may not be something that you can attach directly to the emotion. Hence shadowy forms. The basic emotion (haha) we boil down to in this process is confusion.

Fire Hoses

I'll let you guys think about it. It's probably not what you're thinking. Though it's prolly just crazy.

Day One 08/13/2009

Here is a sketch for a portrait I will be working on as soon as the model gets here.

Wednesday Night Life Drawing

Here are the sketches from tonight's Life Drawing.

This is our model Wes. Wish I had more time on the hands. Wes was a very charactered model, as you can see below.

Wes, as a worried Samuel L. Jackson

Wes, from Cats (Thunder Cats that is).
Zoinks! There's ghosts in that theater! And, Wes as Shaggy.

These were some of the final sketches, where Wes tried to portray a mob surrounding a pink bull (thanks to the National G).