What's your New Year's Resolution?

Aside from the good old exercise, eat less crap and be a better person, what new year's resolutions have you set for yourself? 

It's probably pretty obvious from this post that one of mine was to go back to life drawing at least every other week. So on the first Monday of the new year, there I was in my old life drawing class! It was great. It's kind of like when you go to the gym after months on sitting on your ass doing nothing. It was a struggle to go after work but you feel better for doing it afterwards. 

If you saw my previous blog post, you'll know that I started a new job and although it's great I won't be designing characters very much so another promise I've made to myself for the new year is to keep up the personal projects which I've also linked with ANOTHER resolution to read at least a book a month. 

So watch this space for some literary inspired character designs! Hopefully...

 

Bethnal Green Life Drawing!

It's been....yeaaaaars since I was in a real life drawing class! It's a completely different ball game drawing from LIFE life than from internet life! Bit of a shaky start but hopefully with some persistence Ill get some skills back!

As an animation artist I have a terrible attention span when it comes to the long poses. After going around and drawing the poses from lots of different angles I resort to drawing the other artists in the room. Is that cheating? :S

I dont know why I lose all my fluidity and caricature when I draw nudes compared to clothed unaware people! Any tips?

Gesture

Well gosh! It seems like its been a while since my last post! I would apologise but Ive been off having a fabulous time! I was a lucky girl to get to go out to LA with my boyfriend for CTNX. It was such a great trip, being around all those inspirational people, meeting my favourite blogger artists and of course picking up some priceless artbook swag!

So to get back into the swing of things, Ive been doodling tonight with gesture drawing. Even though Ive only had a couple of weeks off, I feel totally off my game. Going to try and make posting more regular like I did over the summer. This silly thing gives me more motivation to actually sit my arse down and do some work! (I dont know why I sound so old English in this post...)

Oh, on another note. Went to see 50/50 tonight....sob.

Violin...200!

So some of you were diggin' the last post and there was one request to try another one. Not feeling this one as much as the previous one, think it was just a fluke! But anyhow, here is the second attempt, paying attention to the size of the hands and the violin.

This is also my 200th post! Seems alot but Ive had this blog for at least 3 years...so its not that impressive!

Violin

Gesture

Lazy

Ive been incredibly lazy with drawing recently. Tonight I made some time to sit down and do some hermit style life drawing! Love those nights when you get really into it and its actually fun! As opposed to those day you cant draw anything for sh*t! Out of practice and it shows (especially with the female models!), but hopefully Ill get back into the swing of it soon.

33rd Sketchcrawl - Luxembourg

This weekend was the 33rd Worldwide sketchcrawl, and for Luxembourg it was our 5th and our best turn out yet! I think we had around 12 people! Beats the normal 6!

Click on the image above to see the rest of the results from yesterday.

There are some really great characters in Luxembourg!