I only drew one tiny thing on Wednesday. I had an idea to draw a really laid back guy in flip-flops and an open tee. I just doodled his legs and went back to playing Riven.
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Thursday I’d left for work when I realized I hadn’t brought my pad or pens/pencils for the Drawing Club. I didn’t have time to go back, so I grabbed a clipboard and some printer paper from work, and used my trusty Bic Cristal pen. I’m glad I went, as always, though I think I need to switch up my media, maybe go back onto charcoal, or get back in my anatomy books. I had a tough time expressing any character. The model was great! Very evocative of the One Million B.C. theme.
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Today on the train home I started a little animation in Animation Creator for the iPhone. I really recommend it. The tools are fast and you can upload directly to YouTube at whatever frame rate you like. Here it is after I added some frames just now to get the little guy out of frame:
I thought of it as a dreamy, floaty run when I was animating it, and it feels that way at 12fps. At 24fps the timing seems more natural, though the fluidity of movement isn’t there in the middle:
Drawn on my lunch break in a neighborhood park/electrical tower plot while listening to Brian Eno’s Deep blue Day, and similar. Drawn in ballpoint on paper, painted in Brushes on iPhone.
It’s a color study, accidentally. I drew an outline for the bigger jellyfish, but when I saw the bokeh fill without the line, I just left the line off entirely.
Beyond last minute, this one is for yesterday. This is Gil-Scott Heron appearing on the 7th episode of SNL, hosted by Richard Pryor. For some reason it was really hard to draw today. I had to do other things before I was free for it, and then I just wanted to go to sleep.
My second night at the drawing club. As with any exercise regimen, the results on the first day were surprising and encouraging, and after that it’s hard work. I look forward to doing this every week.
this is the most interpretation I got during this session.
I started mimicking the shapes of the mehve and valley gunship, without really meaning to end up with either. Whoops. Plus some Doug Chiang style domey shaped saucers. Air show…down!
I grew up being creeped out by Patrick O’Hearn’s music. The Ringmaster’s Dream kept me from mine when my folks would play it after I’d gone to bed. I loved that music, but it always unsettled me.
Well, this drawing has very little to do with that feeling. One of his tracks, Adagio from Fantasy for a Gentleman, came on the “radio” when I sat down to draw, and it gave me a feeling that got the drawing started. The atmosphere of the music also begged some color, so I bumped it into ArtRage, which I haven’t opened for quite a long time, since I have no idea how to paint with oils or acrylics.
Yesterday’s drawing. This one was didn’t have the focus these drawings have been demanding so far. Just a guy in the subway station on the way home from work. I just realized the number, too. I could have done something so much cooler for 007! I’ll keep that in mind for the true 7th daily drawing, which will come who-knows-when.
I got the iPhone on Saturday and spent a goodly chunk of Sunday finding out all the things I can use it for. This was drawn in pen on paper, photographed into Brushes on the phone, where I added a bit of color. I was looking for a way to multiply layers to let the lines show through the pigment, but it looks like this paint app doesn’t support that.
I really should have drawn something else when I got home yesterday, and I’ve been down about it today. So I’m setting to today’s drawing now.
