ZombieAcademy's Drawings

3 hr drawing of Brianna

2012-02-26T23:19:00.001-08:00

20 minute lay-in, 3 hr costume drawings

2012-02-19T16:21:00.000-08:00

The 20 minute lay-in is from Watt's, The long pose is from Laguna Canyon Studios.

Bargue Drawing Course studies

2012-02-15T23:21:00.000-08:00

Doing some digital housecleaning and I found these Bargue studies from November. I think I was going to do "just one more hand" and never posted them.

Trip Sketches

2012-02-01T00:03:00.000-08:00

I did these while on a trip. Some little skulls from memory and some 20-30 minute lay-ins from sculptures.

20 minute lay-in

2012-01-24T09:02:00.000-08:00

I really enjoy trying these, it's a nice change of pace from quick sketch.

Four things with increasing times on each

2012-01-16T20:36:00.000-08:00

1 minute quicksketch, 5 minute quicksketches, 20 minute lay-in, 30-minute lay-in.

Party invite

2012-01-08T15:28:00.000-08:00

A charcoal drawing done for a party invitation, with the finished invitation. Extra text was added on the computer.

I guess I should actually buy Photoshop. Even though it isn't perfect, the alternatives are still pretty far behind. I was going to do the whole thing digitally but they just didn't cut it and that resulted in some lost work.

Longposes from the month of November

2011-11-20T17:36:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Ben Young and Erik Gist for giving the first two that extra sauce.

Another 2,5,10, 3hr sequence

2011-11-04T21:32:00.000-07:00

1+2 minute poses, 5 minute poses, 10 minute poses, and a 3 hour pose.

2,3,5 minute, 2 hr pose

2011-10-24T22:52:00.000-07:00

New term, new 'drawlins.

On the road, studies from DC

2011-09-12T09:47:00.000-07:00

I missed two days of class from being on the road, so I cut down a newsprint pad and tried to do as many studies as I could. There's a lot of museums in DC, and when there isn't a museum handy there's always photocopies of the good old standbys.

Bridgman studies:

From the National Portrait Gallery, Copley and Duplessis:

National Gallery of Art: Dewing I only had an hour and a half, and saw maybe 10% of this place.

Russian master study on the downtime:

DC Zoo. It rained the whole time I was in DC, hard. So only indoor studies were possible.

Hooray, 50th post.

2011-08-29T21:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a thing.

Another 2 hour

2011-08-14T18:49:00.001-07:00

Cranking away. *crank crank crank*

Some 5s and a long pose

2011-07-30T21:13:00.000-07:00

Happy now INTERROBANG?!? :p

New term, 3 hour pose

2011-07-20T23:01:00.000-07:00

Thanks Jeff for the guidance on the legs. I think I ended up over doing it, but I know a lot more about the vastus lateralis now. Before that section of the body was kind of just a big cylinder in my mind. Now it is a slightly bumpier cylinder. :)

Torrin Caffrey

2011-06-30T21:21:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple 15 min poses of Torrin. He's an awesome model but unfortunately he is moving to CO :( Oh well, c'est la vie, thanks for the good poses and conversation!

I've been lazy about this...

2011-06-14T21:58:00.000-07:00

...so I will continue the trend by just dumping a bunch of stuff!

Animal Anatomy

2011-04-20T22:28:00.000-07:00

A friend let me shoot reference of her greyhound Cheerio. The anatomy is so cool, although the posture is sad :( I guess Cheerio thought I was the vet.

Skull studies

2011-03-26T20:58:00.001-07:00

Trying to stay active between terms with some skull studies.

End of term - march 2011

2011-03-21T21:49:00.000-07:00

Here are my last two drawings of the term, some Bridgman and a long pose. I would say my progress this term was average. Meaning "as to be expected" with a 50% chance of "on track" in the late afternoon. Can't ask for better than that.

Another long pose

2011-03-15T23:40:00.000-07:00

long pose

2011-02-21T20:14:00.001-08:00

long pose and quick sketches

2011-02-13T17:15:00.000-08:00

Thanks again to Erik for cleanup and advice.

Long pose and quick sketch on the same page

2011-02-06T18:10:00.000-08:00

Trying something different with this one. I shifted it over and stuck the second round of quick sketch on the side because it was such a vertical pose. I think it could work but the pressure was so on for the quicksketches that I kind of flubbed them. Could also use more I think, some 2's and stuff. Oh well, next time.

Another long pose

2011-02-02T21:32:00.001-08:00

More naked people :D

New term!

2011-01-16T08:53:00.000-08:00

Long pose all day this time. Thanks Erik for the help, especially on the leg.

Filling time by filling space

2011-01-07T22:51:00.000-08:00

Some sketchbook pages from a recent trip. A lot of waiting for trains and planes.

Some 3 minute poses

2010-11-20T21:39:00.000-08:00

2 hour pose from today

2010-11-06T22:19:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Erik for the leg help.

Waiting for trick-or-treaters

2010-10-31T21:45:00.000-07:00

Did this Rubens study in between passing out candy. I've done this one several times now, and every time it makes me feel like crap. But I get a little closer each time, so I will continue :)

More quicksketch

2010-10-30T19:50:00.000-07:00

Some more 5 minute poses from today

Tonight's poses

2010-10-27T22:54:00.000-07:00

Some sketches tonight of Michael Wood. Cool model. "I don't want to get soot on the ceiling, usually these swords are on fire." Heh.
Here are some 5 minute poses:

Figure drawing from today

2010-10-23T20:01:00.000-07:00

Not the best rendering, but I screwed up the proportions hardcore, recognized it, and fixed it decently in the lay-in phase.That's actually a huge win believe it or not :)

Vikings!

2010-10-17T22:30:00.000-07:00

This came from a sketch group session at work. I liked it so I tarted it up a bit more. I tried to copy the style of Justin Sweet, one of my favorite illustrators.

dump

2010-09-30T00:36:00.000-07:00

I haven't made a lot of posts recently, and it's because I haven't been happy with really anything I've done in the past several months. Hopefully that changes next term. In the mean time, here's about half a terms drawings and a few digital studies. Trying to make up for lost posts, and also I don't want to pose them any bigger than this.

Some 5s and 10s

2010-09-16T02:00:00.000-07:00

Some 5 and 10 minute poses. Alotta drapery this time. I have got to work on that more. Utter fail.

Crimson King

2010-09-07T00:08:00.000-07:00

Here is a digital sketch I did tonight to get out a thought I was having about the Dark Tower series. If I did a full painting I think I would spend most of my time filling in all the subtle half tones with iconography from the books, until it was overflowing with bullets, roses, doors, and of course the beam.
Not that this is great and all that, but I don't know, just an old man with white hair never did it for me. My main thought is that the king is such a transcendentally evil and insane creature that a very abstract, allegorical image would be the most appropriate.

Figure drawing from class today

2010-08-07T20:39:00.000-07:00

Erik's was off the hook. Here's my attempt.

Wednesday Quicksketch

2010-07-22T00:20:00.000-07:00

A page of quicksketch from tonight's session.

more 2 minute poses

2010-07-04T00:49:00.000-07:00

I was happy with how the iron man pose turned out.

Écorché study

2010-06-06T02:45:00.000-07:00

A longer study of Andrew Cawrse's écorché figure. Thanks to the Watt's crew for the feedback and encouragement.

Photo study

2010-05-27T23:54:00.000-07:00

I did a photoshop study from a picture by photographer Josh Lyon.
I plan to do more of these just to get the hang of my tablet. It's totally different from paper.
The point is to learn so I set some rules for myself:
-brush and eraser tool only
-no overlays, no tracing, side by side only, no guides or grid
-no selection masks, or transforming or distorting, if something is wrong, repaint it
-eye dropper tool only on my own painting, not the photo

The likeness and angle of the features is a little off, but whaddya gonna do, I'm happy with the result on it's own, side by side with the photo is a little brutal. The weaknesses I have here are exactly the same ones I have with regular drawing. Funny how that works.

Back from a trip

2010-05-04T00:11:00.000-07:00

A few pen sketches from the woods in Ohio, and a pirate sketch waiting for a plane :)

J. C. Leyendecker head studies

2010-04-16T23:19:00.000-07:00

A few more 5 minute quicksketches

2010-04-11T16:27:00.000-07:00

Some figure quicksketch

2010-03-12T00:46:00.001-08:00

A few 5 minute studies and a page of 2 minute studies from a live model. He was very flexible and took some crazy poses.

Study from a handout at Watt's

2010-02-26T21:39:00.001-08:00

Done in class.

Frazetta Study

2010-02-21T23:31:00.001-08:00

A long (15 hour) study from Frazetta. A little off here and there but overall I am happy with the figures. Next time I will spend more time on the lay in.
I took in progress pics as well.

Bridgman Knee study 2

2010-01-31T17:01:00.000-08:00

Another set of Bridgman knees! Damn I love that man's style.

Bodybuilder study

2010-01-23T17:10:00.001-08:00

A female body builder. Pretty insane what training, diet, and roids can do these days, but it makes for good anatomy studies.

5 minute quicksketch

2010-01-20T21:11:00.000-08:00

some 5 minute poses from a live model.

Some 5-30 minute studies from a pose book

2010-01-20T00:56:00.001-08:00

More Russian anatomy

2010-01-18T23:57:00.000-08:00

A few more studies from xeroxes at Watt's. BTW, pretty much everything here is conte pencil on 18x24 newsprint. I wasn't happy with the top of the skeleton so I cut that off in the photo :P

Bridgman Knee study

2010-01-10T19:57:00.000-08:00

From Bridgman. Legs and knees have a subtle "spiral" structure that make them very fun to draw. You can see that the most in the rightmost, loosest leg.

Russian Tradition study

2010-01-05T21:58:00.000-08:00

Here is an anatomy study from a long drawing done in what I'm guessing is a Russian Tradition atelier. Sorry I don't have the name. It was done over a few weeks from a Xerox in an anatomy class at Watts Atelier. Thanks to Jeff Watts and Erik Gist for all the help on this one. You can see the copious notes I took in the margins. Jeff really helped with the layered up, smoky look. It's got some proportions problems, those are mine.

Anatomy study, arms

2009-12-20T00:08:00.000-08:00

Some arm studies from handouts at Watts and skeletons. Believe it or not the muscle ones are actually from pictures of female body builders. I guess the male body builders are so incredibly distorted these days they don't make good anatomy reference.

Some figure quicksketches

2009-12-15T21:12:00.000-08:00

These are a mix of 5 minute and 3 minute figure poses.

More anatomy studies, Frazetta and Bridgman

2009-12-09T20:32:00.000-08:00

From Bridgman books and Frazetta handouts at Watt's Atelier. Props to all my teachers and classmates at Watts, my classes there have helped my drawing a ton.
Whenever you see little written notes on my sketchpad it's usually because a teacher at Watts sat down and gave me a critique. I try to make notes of what they say for when I go back and fix things up.
BTW the first arm is from a Conan piece and the second one is Tarzan.

Figure Drawing Design and Invention

2009-12-07T23:14:00.000-08:00

A coworker passed on info for a book called "Figure Drawing Design and Invention" by Michael Hampton. It's full of some great anatomy work. Here are a few studies I did from Hampton's work. If you are so inclined to buy art books I say go for it. It's worth the money.

What the hell, here's another one

2009-12-05T23:05:00.000-08:00

As long as I am starting this off I might as well put up this one too. Way more game related than the last, this one inspired by Left 4 Dead. Also black and white (still scared by color).

I wanted a very graphic result with this one, almost like the achievement icons in the game.

New Painting - Batman

2009-12-05T22:20:00.000-08:00

I have some problems with Adobe, but almost everyone recognizes Photoshop as pretty solid. I use it occasionally at work, and it has some major issues for sure, but it really is the standard for a reason. So when I decided to buy a copy of Painter 11, it was mainly because I just couldn't justify the price tag. There's 3D software that costs less than a copy of Photoshop. It really should be $250.

Anyway, I have been taking drawing classes for a while, and I thought I would get back to digital painting. I'm still intimidated by the real thing. I saw a demo by Todd Lockwood wherein he used Painter, and I was impressed by how intuitive it seemed.

So this is a product of a few nights getting acquainted with it while listening to various Batman soundtracks. I've wanted to do this ever since playing Arkham Asylum. The entire time I heard Hank Venture's voice in my head, repeatedly saying "I am the bat. The night is mine". In black and white, color scares me.

ZombieAcademy's Drawings

3 hr drawing of Brianna

20 minute lay-in, 3 hr costume drawings

Bargue Drawing Course studies

Trip Sketches

20 minute lay-in

Four things with increasing times on each

Party invite

Longposes from the month of November

Another 2,5,10, 3hr sequence

2,3,5 minute, 2 hr pose

On the road, studies from DC

Hooray, 50th post.

Another 2 hour

Some 5s and a long pose

New term, 3 hour pose

Torrin Caffrey

I've been lazy about this...

Animal Anatomy

Skull studies

End of term - march 2011

Another long pose

long pose

long pose and quick sketches

Long pose and quick sketch on the same page

Another long pose

New term!

Filling time by filling space

Some 3 minute poses

2 hour pose from today

Waiting for trick-or-treaters

More quicksketch

Tonight's poses

Figure drawing from today

Vikings!

*dump*

Some 5s and 10s

Crimson King

Figure drawing from class today

Wednesday Quicksketch

more 2 minute poses

Écorché study

Photo study

Back from a trip

J. C. Leyendecker head studies

A few more 5 minute quicksketches

Some figure quicksketch

Study from a handout at Watt's

Frazetta Study

Bridgman Knee study 2

Bodybuilder study

5 minute quicksketch

Some 5-30 minute studies from a pose book

More Russian anatomy

Bridgman Knee study

Russian Tradition study

Anatomy study, arms

Some figure quicksketches

More anatomy studies, Frazetta and Bridgman

Figure Drawing Design and Invention

What the hell, here's another one

New Painting - Batman

dump