January overview

I decided to go study more anatomy. Because, let's face it, I suck at it. Even though I like drawing doodles and cartoon-like styles. I still find the need to understand what I'm drawing to the very core of it all. So here are some I did while reading about the Reilly Method and muscles in the Torso:

I just copied drawings while reading up on them as you can see. But as long as I understand, that's fine for now. And I can review them when I'm at a loss with what I'm drawing again. It's normal for me to forget.

More Gesture Drawing:

That's my great lola(grandmother) Memeng with the headphones. She's needs headphones to hear the TV. She puts menthol patches on her legs since they hurt sometimes. Green jokes make her laugh the most once in a while. She's on her mid 90s and tells me that she looks too old in this drawing.

Outside:

Dragonfire sketches

Attended an event called DRAGONFIRE: SKETCHMOB, a live drawing session organized by Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Manila and Sketchwalk PH (you can look them up in facebook). The theme was for the Chinese New Year.

5-minute sketches:

These are warm-up sketches, so they say. I think they pretty much define what I can do within 5 minutes and apparently not enough. Maybe the way I curved the lines just took longer.

10-minute sketches:

Having been annoyed from the last 2 sketches, I wanted to do find a quicker way to capture the pose quickly so there's more time to fix details. Then I remembered a saying that straight lines can give a stronger look. I think it did help on the clothes. The girl on the right suddenly looked African. Sorry about that. 

And I'm not really satisfied with where I was positioned drawing Ms. Africa. It might be nice to start drawing on a whim, but there really are times when I have to think about where to sit. I just ended up asking myself midway, "What the hell am I drawing?..." Planning everything beforehand is always an advantage and I haven't seen any way for it to be a disadvantage so far.

20-minute sketches:

A lot more time to refine them. I also got the hang of using straight lines. Girl on the left wasn't really posing with her shoulder near her cheek. I thought it would be more appealing that way. Girl on the right, my friend was doubting if she would draw the pose. maybe too seductive for her? Anyway, I just drew on and she actually turned out cute in the end.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Observational drawing. Dec12-Jan5

Last month, I started this habit of drawing in my little sketchbook while out in the open.
It's good practice in a lot of ways, like being more confident in drawing in public,
managing the short time there is to capture the shapes, actions, lighting, and what not.

So here it is:

I'm especially amused at the time I drew the guy with a beard and glasses on the top right.
He caught me staring at him. So I tried to be more discreet but my cousin suddenly
asked me, "ARE YOU DRAWING SOMEONE?!" Take note he was the only
stranger around at that time.