Empty Stomach, Beer & Life Drawing

Recently found out about this small organization called Toons on Tap that runs costumed life drawings once a week on the 2nd floor of a bar in downtown Toronto. It's pretty chill and cool cause its the exact opposite of regular figure drawing sessions where the smallest noise that barely finds a way out of your headphones can put people on the verge of insanity!

poses are from 1 to 10 minutes

And these are from a regular session. There is a shortage of smooth newsprint in town once again and i hated how the conte' was reacting so I instantly switched to marker.

Economic Crisis

Pencil was not the best idea for life drawing last night. I noticed it doesn't really help "economy of line" or in other words, I couldn't say much with little (pencil strokes), therefore, time was an issue.
Good thing about it is that it makes you focus more on the cake and less on the icing, if that makes any sense!

Might post something other than naked people any century now...

Smells like Academy Awards ...

So its just another life drawing session that's about to start, and guess who walks in?
Chris Landreth
I'm a huge fan of this guy and really love his work on Ryan which won him an academy award. Ryan to me is the prime example of 3D animation making perfect sense and its beautifully done, needless to mention that I really admire Ryan Larkin's work and his interesting character.

I had permission to take this photo!

Besides having a celebrity in the room, everything else was the same old ...
badly drawn naked people:

No Conte'.

I like not using conte for life drawing every now and then, even though its frowned upon!


The first one goes back to April I guess, on the very last day of school, after pulling the last all-nighter for the last project. It was a Sherlock Holmes themed costumed life drawing. Really fun and liberating.

Results are even worse for me  when the models are wearing something!

The second series is from last Friday. I forgot to take my conte' with me so I just decided to use pen and water color again in my tiny sketch book. Such a disappointing session though. Just sharing for the sake of sharing.

Speaking of none-conte' life drawings, Yana was with me in this session and she did it straight in her laptop-slash-tablet thingy. Its crazy! check it out.

Summer Life Drawing, So Far

The thing about life drawing in summer is that I both love it and hate it.
Love it cause there is no more portfolio, pressure or competition. It's stress-free.
Hate it cause it's freakin' expensive! Specially when you are jobless.
Anyway, here's what I've been up to so far ...

- in chronological order -

Caricatures

We had this in-class assignment of doing caricatures of our classmates a while ago. I was kinda nervous since I'd never done it before but surprisingly it was fun!

left to right: Steve (teacher's favorite), Byron (my favorite), Victoria & Dave

10 minutes each

1st Year in a Nutshell

So, first year of Sheridan in 2 words: Life Drawing. And to be honest with you, I have no clue what I did or what happened, but it is what it is! I mean, turns out there is no such thing as a logical linear path to improvement. Its just full of ups 'n' downs. You get fast, you get slow, you get better, you get worse, you gain hope, you give up. I'm telling you bro/sis, it's a mind-f*ck! 

What makes it really complicated for me is that I truly enjoy life drawing and at the same time its one thing that makes me frustrated THE most! I'm a Masochist in a love-and-hate relationship.

Anyways, here's just a random compilation of some of the naked people I drew in first year, 2nd semester. The stuff from 1st semester, you dont wanna see!

There is a reason that shading is frowned upon in 1st year!

  

30 seconds, 1 minutes & 2 minutes

3 mins & 5 minx