People Walking

sketches and notes :P

Laura

Laura, substitute model extraordinaire!

Elephants

One crowded page of elephant drawings just for my friend Jon lol.

Self Portrait

I thought I was about due for a new self portrait. It's not one of my best, but oh well, here it is. Enjoy.

Dancer

I finally took some time to draw for myself. I know, that's insane at the end of the semester, but I couldn't take it anymore. So here's one of the things I came up with.

Fun with figure drawing

So the other night we had a weird male model in figure drawing. He was this big fat guy who got in all these feminine poses! I was working hard on making him appear masculine, even making him all angular and such. Here's an example:



But he just kept prancing around like Cinderella at the ball... Except Cindy seemed to not only lose her dress, but also actually turn into a pumpkin herself! At the end, I decided to see through the globs of fat and draw him as he imagined himself to be:


Isn't that so much nicer?

You might make the argument that he only looks better there because I made him thinner... but here's another lady-version of him!


And here are two versions together, just for fun! Had a bit more time during that pose:


Overall, I had fun with it all. Actually drawing him as a woman helped me relax and loosen up and even my man-drawings of him got better! :)

Kids, Don't Try This at Home

So this is a crappy photo of a drawing off of a photo, which was washed out by flash and distorted due to proximity of the subject to the camera. Bad idea, I know, but in the end, I'm ok with it.

Figures from 114 portfolio

On location people sketches (from 114 portfolio)

Goats from my portfolio

These are goats from the San Jose zoo. They are pygmy goats, they are supposed to look like that. I know, they're ugly. Ugly like Blake. Just kidding, I didn't mean that, Blake.

Quick post

two five minute poses of the lovely Kit. Anyone have a problem with her hips in the 2nd one? I'm taking a poll here, so messages or comments would be appreciated.

(By the way, here are links to two of my drawings of Kit from a year+ ago. Just for fun, so you can see how much I've grown: One and Two)

A Bit of Perspective

A store at Oakridge Mall.


A street in Niles.

I think the organic shapes in these studies are what kept me sane while drawing these.

Mixed Media Mayhem

Boy am I having fun with alliterations!! Also, I'm having fun with charcoal sketches colored with watercolor and highlighted with white carbothello and white acryllic respectively. Sorry about the mirror images there, but that's just extra fun, isn't it??



These two are off of a photo of some pretty Russian model.



Hopefully you recognize these two as a self portrait. I'm a girl and I have a flare for drama... so what?

Thin Pen Tomfoolery

Harry Potter Event Drawings

Animal Drawings

Brushpen Buffoonery

Mountains of China

Taishan
This is the holiest mountain in China. The final scene of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon supposedly takes place here.


While I was painting this, a cloud came up and completely obliterated my view. Also, while I sat on the steps of Azure Temple painting, a crowd of Chinese tourists (and a man who appeared to live on top of the mountain) gathered around talking noisily, taking pictures and whatnot. The Mountain Man sat next to me jabbering on the entire time. "Yup... still don't understand you" was all I could say. Later, he offered me fruit or something. I had to wave him off and run away.


This is a view of one of the smaller buildings of Azure Temple (as you can see, there is more in the background).

Liangshan:
Liangshan was the home to the Outlaws of the Marsh. Nowadays, there is not a marsh there, but the Outlaw Watchtower remains.


The caption in my sketchbook explains it all (in case you can't read my handwriting: View of Buddhist Temple from Outlaw Watchtower)



This is a drawing off of a statue of Likui, the Black Whirlwind. As you can see, he's sporting two axes.

Huangshan
Huangshan is the most beautiful mountain in China. The ending scene of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was actually filmed here! They also grow some fantastic tea here.


I did this one pretty quickly (had to get back down to earth).


This is the Beginning to Believe Peak. I'm pretty proud of this painting!

In conclusion, I'm glad to have had the chance to get away from just doing people/figures all the time and explore landscape painting. I'm fairly content with the results, but I've a long way to go.