I’ve been inking in all my old gesture drawings to get a feel for that ol’ ink brush. The pencils look like shit because I’m still not loose enough with the 1-2 min gestures. The brush does a great job of picking up the slack. I have a #1 and 2 Windsor Newton series 7 (which is kind of funny because my drawing tablet is a Samsung Series 7. Funny in a way that really isn’t). and I complained about how expensive they were but, man, they’ve really  hung in there. I’ve had them almost 5 years and they still have a sharp point. I’m just now starting to get a real grasp of it, though. Fun stuff.

Some of these will be used  in a book of poetry that I’ll have more information on shortly. I have one more drawing to finish/publish so I’ll post more information then. 

I’ve had yesterday’s model before. She’s a ballerina and models like this professionally. What a difference it makes!

She’s a real fantastic model. She poses well and she has a real strange body type with a prominent rib cage. She also looks like marionette. There’s also a real big indent in the space between her rib cage and the pelvic area that does well to emphasize a twisting motion. The ribs are subtle and real hard to shade in. Actually they’re easy to block in with charcoal or the like but real tough to do with cross hatching because the shadow is so soft. Good practice, though. It turned out the best with the ass/legs at the top.  

Other projects that aren’t lady poses soon, perhaps. 

I went to figure drawing on Monday but the model was bad. REALLY bad. This chick was too and she constantly complained even though she was 20 minutes late. She gets a pass, though, because she went for a pose on a stool and by the time I looked up she had thunked onto the stage and then flopped onto the concrete. She was alright and she posed well overall so a zero sum, I guess. 

The girl that came in Monday hadn’t posed for folks before so, to be fair, she had no idea what she was doing. So I got nothing out of that part of Monday but I did remember that I forgot these. So here. 

Thursday figure drawing in Los Feliz. Monday Thursday are guaranteed posts now. Still getting used to quick sketches BUT I’ve started to get my ability to draw heads on bodies back. It’s crazy how quick the brain neurons forget and even nuttier how fast they find their way again. This was a BEAUTIFUL black chick but she was really hard to draw. I had to get back into defining the form by shading because she had a very particular body type where you had to be pretty exact with the outline curvature otherwise she would come out looking totally wonky.

Almost finished with 1 of 2 logos for tomorrow and I’m going to spend the weekend doing a small comic panel.