Workin' in my Waltham Wondaland
I made it to Boston, you guys! I am officially pleased with my splendid apartment and room and skylights and roommates, but I am also officially pooped! I (as well as my long-suffering parents) have been carrying many heavy things down stairs and into cars and then out of cars and then up stairs and then up more stairs and then taking things out of boxes and bolting them together and calling Ikea to request missing shelves and also I have been making bagel sandwiches. And so! I decided to share today some of the life-drawings I did with laughing_anima last semester at Amherst College's weekly free Nekkid Model nights.
These are all conte crayon right here in three tones. Uh...sienna and umber? I don't know what the proper name may be, but I calls 'em terra cotta and brown and white. Gets a muddy mess if you work at it too much, and it's very hard to know when to stop because it starts getting this lovely buttery effect once you start building up enough on the paper.
I've had some...interesting interactions with this particular model, shall we say, who I've actually drawn before I ever enrolled at UMass Amherst. It's a pity, because he's by far one of the best- he has a real talent for dynamic and challenging poses, and his stocky, chubby body type is atypical enough from "fine art" adonises that you really have to look at where his weight falls and how his body is put together.
Trying out some brush pens here (the lighter shade unfortunately began running out).
I think this was with my Pentel brush pen (which now is regrettably malfunctioning, because it is a dumb bitch).
Graphiiiite two fast attempts at the same pose. Need more fast poses. I think you learn the most from them in a way.
Charcoal smudges! Man I love drawing naked people. Man I love just drawing people, ok
I love how you can hire a person to just sit still for a while so you can squint at them and go, 'ohhh that's what your clavicle goes when you hunch your shoulders" and they don't mind.
OMG THIS HOUSE HAS A KITTY IN IT
I
I LOVE THIS KITTY
Also, this is amazing:
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.