Some Frightening First Steps

Because I didn't find anything to draw during my walk yesterday, I decided to sit in the break room and doodle. When I sat down, I noticed a rotating magazine rack containing a bunch of fashion magazines. It dawned on me that these magazines didn't contain anything I would ever want to read about, but they did have tons of models in various poses wearing lots of different styles of clothing. I flipped to a random page and attempted to draw what I saw with the ten or so minutes I had for break.

The result is kind of ugly - it looks more like some kind of monster than the model I was looking at. But I have a strong urge to keep going with this. I will be committing my breaks to drawing these random models to learn about portraits and figure drawing. Maybe I will have produced some cool portraits by the time the flowers make a return.

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Ice Skating Characters

A Competent Profile

As I start to become more familiar with proportions and measurements for the various faces I attempt to draw, I am starting to wonder how to make a more complete portrait with my limited time. Do I stick to lines? Do I bring a brush and some ink? Which lines should I include? Which shapes are important to represent? Maybe this is a good time to look at the work other artists have done and try to work out some of their methods.

Coat and Hat

Warm, grey marker and flair tip pen. I thought I would try combining these too together, but they seem to interact in weird ways. The hard, black edges seem to really point out the proportional problems here. Tomorrow, I would like to try working in reverse - adding the grey marker after the hard lines. It doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference, but it just might be the key to making this combination a success.

Rainbow Bisque

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