acrylic, Animation, in progress, painting, unfinished
apple tree background — in progress
I’m working on this landscape painting of our apple orchard. Lately I have been studying background paintings from animated feature films, and I’m trying to capture some of the styles and techniques I see from artists of that genre. Specific influences are from Disney and Studio Ghibli. I may tone down/tweak the colors with a
charcoal, drawing, female model, figure drawing, gesture
figure drawing
Here is a recent 15 minute gesture drawing done with vine charcoal, and charcoal pencil.
figure drawing, male model, nude
seated nude
This drawing is done with charcoal, sanguine and white conte on colored charcoal paper. I like the solid look of this pose, almost statuesque. The details — faces, hands and feet definitely represent a challenge. Hopefully we will be studying these areas more in the class.
drawing, figure
gesture drawings
Gestural drawings convey the line of action and movement of a pose. Shown here are some very quick gestures of a male model done using a sanguine conte crayon on drawing paper. This model’s imaginative poses helped to inspire me — inspiration is sometimes hard to conjur following a long day’s work and hectic commute