Another figure drawing

This is a 20 minute figure drawing of Kit (5 minute drawing of her below) done on tone paper with red and white charcoal pencils.

Tree Studies

For my required sketchbook for John Clapp's Intro to Illustration class, I tried a few different approaches to drawing trees, since drawing trees was something that was always hard for me before

This is just drawing the shadow shapes, like the self portrait.


I guess this is a cross between line drawing and tonal drawing. Not sure what it is, but I am content with the way it looks.


This is a semi-blind contour drawing of a small piece of some kind of fir tree.


This is a line drawing done in brushpen. Brushpen is fun because it allows you to be loose and "artistic" =).

A taste of figure drawing

Three figure drawings featured in my last portfolio of the Spring Semester in Sheldon Borenstein's Drawing for Illustration and Animation class.

2 minute: Jessica
5 minute: Kit
20 minute: Jesse

Hello and the Shadow Shapes Self Portrait

Hi Everyone! I'm Sasha. I'm in the process of learning how to draw (and do other things) at San Jose State University. I just discovered this whole artblog concept and I must say this is a lot easier than redesigning and fixing up my website and posting things on it. I will still do that, eventually (I hope), but this should get me started on the whole web presence thing.

First post: Shadow Shapes Self Portrait... This was an assignment in John Clapp's Intro to Illustration class and is probably one of the most successful things I did in that class.