A few things from last week! Forgot to update, oops.
Animals
In order to prepare for our zoo trip, our assignment was to sketch some animals we’d be seeing there. It made me realize that I really need to practice my animal sketches more, yikes.
Zoo Sketches!
This week we went to the Columbus Zoo! And while there are a few stragglers from last week on one of the pages, I got well over 100 quick animal sketches! It was a lot of fun! Even if it was pouring rain and ruined some of my markers…
D-9 Sketches
The assignment this week was to take our favorite live-action movie and draw some scenes from it! The instructions did say to include 2 or more figures, but didn’t necessarily say humans, so I went with my all-time fave District 9. Shakey camera movements and lots of close-ups made it difficult but I still had a lot of fun with this! I tried to keep the sketches quick, each around 5-10 minutes I’d say, but I haven’t used a pencil for drawing in ages and it was actually super frustrating AH.
About this point I got all the way to the end, realized (oops) I didn’t have enough, so I went back to find more.
I had so much fun with these I think when I get more free time I might practice drawing more Poleepkwa!
EDIT: I did.
People Watching
More sketches from the mall, this time quicker and more exaggerated though!
Weekly Sketches
This week we saw a play rehearsal with a very limited cast, but I was able to get some good sketches out of it once I got used to the body types!
Then later we watched a ballet rehearsal. It’s always so challenging getting those super quick poses down, even as fast as I was sketching I sort of had to make up half of them. But hey, fake it til you make it, am I right?
Excuse the sad puppy, still not feeling too great lately.
Re-draws
This week’s assignment was to take some weak poses from our sketchbooks and sketch them better. I’m so used to sketching quick and small that these were a little difficult at first, but I think I got the hang of it. Need to start working bigger though!
Oops! I forgot to post this update. Just one day’s worth of sketches this week (can’t seem to shake this cold ugh) from a sketch comedy at a local theater!
Bleh
The assignment this week was to create a vampire character and draw them in a few successive poses. I quickly sketched the adult guy in a minute or so, but upon revision I decided a kid would be more fun.
Now for a couple poses, all quickly sketched in pen and then cleaned up a little. That cape is a real pain.
My favorite assignment so far! What a cutie.
Class Sketches
Quickly sketching passers-by at the mall, probably the fastest I’ve ever drawn I really wanted to get to that Lego store! Got these done in 23 minutes flat.
And later in the week we watched another play rehearsal. Unfortunately, I was incredibly sick and sketching through watering eyes the entire time but it was a play about The Beatles so it was worth it!
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