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. 

Did a quick sketch of the mugshots of Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu who were the two gunmen in the North Hollywood shootout. The incident came up in conversation and I ended up watching a Discovery Channel documentary on it and it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely insane that was.  There were a lot of very peculiar aspects of that robbery that made it completely unique to any crime that had happened in the US at the time. Larry and Emil both had head-to-toe body armor that they had sewed and reenforced themselves and both had AK-47’s with modified drum clips that held over 100 rounds of specialty-ordered steel-plated armor piercing rounds. They also could’ve gotten away since they had completely outgunned the entire police force in the immediate area BUT they decided to stay and fight. There were over 3000 rounds fired…over 1100 of which came from the two robbers themselves. That’s only a factual fraction of the entire incident. I haven’t used watercolors in a while and I felt like doodling around. It’s kind of a good challenge to see if you can really get a sense of the look that’s being given off in a mugshot. 
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Did a quick sketch of the mugshots of Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu who were the two gunmen in the North Hollywood shootout. The incident came up in conversation and I ended up watching a Discovery Channel documentary on it and it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely insane that was. 

There were a lot of very peculiar aspects of that robbery that made it completely unique to any crime that had happened in the US at the time. Larry and Emil both had head-to-toe body armor that they had sewed and reenforced themselves and both had AK-47’s with modified drum clips that held over 100 rounds of specialty-ordered steel-plated armor piercing rounds. They also could’ve gotten away since they had completely outgunned the entire police force in the immediate area BUT they decided to stay and fight. There were over 3000 rounds fired…over 1100 of which came from the two robbers themselves. That’s only a factual fraction of the entire incident.

I haven’t used watercolors in a while and I felt like doodling around. It’s kind of a good challenge to see if you can really get a sense of the look that’s being given off in a mugshot. 

More figure drawing last night. The model was this ridiculously austere ballerina and she kind of had an hourglass figure except it was more like an obtuse rectangle with 2 deep indentations between her ribcage and hips. 

Over the weekend I was talking to one of the dudes in this band called Manhattan Murder Mystery and he had a great goddamned idea that I immediately realized was way better than the one I was going to do. It’s funny because he just through out a little tidbit to carry the conversation and I go and jump out ma chair asking him if I can lay claim to it. And he said yes. :D

Scrapped the old idea and half-way there with the new one. That’ll be up later today.

I had a teacher that used to preach all sorts of practical, nifty advice that keeps popping up over the years. It’s a real nice way of keeping your memory fresh with all your students. Tonight I found another one: make sure your scanner glass is clean. 

I just bought an 11”x14” sketchbook that’s worked wonders with putting logistics and ideas together but it’s outgrown my modest scanner. Actually it’s been oversized to my scanner ever since I bought it. 

So I had to put a small hold on the book I was working on because a barrage of other work has come through the pipeline. This is for a shirt design that was originally designed to be on a banner. A festival shirt is a banner, too, so it works. 

These are some sketches and comps that’re going right now. I’m shooting to have this finished Friday but ANOTHER small project came about so there’s a bit of juggling. I have most of the main drawing covered, though. Just need to ink it. About to do that now. So here are hastily scanned stuff straight out of the ol’ book in no particular order.