I’ve put up lost of anatomy sketches here. My day job involves anatomy illustration, but I do life drawing classes in my spare time. I’ve started doing some sketches where the anatomy is wrong – hands in the wrong places and incorrect ligaments. This is just to try something different. The first sketch is below, but I plan to post up more in the future. The subject has her arm in the wrong place. The image itself is based on a Toulouse Lautrec sketch.
More foreshortened sketches.
Some more sketches using my Fine Liner pens.
Some new Life Drawing sketches. This was a practise for drawing foreshortened people. I have several of these and will post more images soon. Some of the images are better than other, but my sketching of foreshortened characters and models is definitely improving.
FIrst post of 2012. Some more faces from my sketchbook.
Last post of the year I think, so I thought I’d post up something new and a bit different.
Recently I bought some Fine Liner pens. I’ve done sketches using thicker ‘ProMarker’ pens, but I wanted more detail. The sketches are a continuation of my life drawing and concentrating on portraits and faces. They are colour studies and merely experiments. Some of the sketches work better than others, but I wanted to move away from Pastels and I would like to do more traditional illustration in the future. These pens should give me a bit more freedom in this.
This will be my last post before Christmas. I didn’t have time to do a Christmas sketch but here are some more life drawing sketches, this time concentrating on faces.
Enjoy!! And Merry Christmas!!!!!
Some more sketches from my life drawing class at the Duncan of Jordanson Art College.
Project 3– Webcomic – Poetry Comics
To take a break from the Art I am looking to start another webcomic. After having a couple of guest strips on the Somnambulations site (and hopefully a few others up next year) I’ve decided to start my own webcomic.
This comic will combine poetry and comics and not have an overriding narrative. Each comic will be standalone and be fairly experimental. I am currently looking for artists to collaborate with and a posted a few help wanted adds on some forums. No luck so far, but I do plan to illustrate a few comics myself to get started.
I plan to write about 12 comics and post them up 2 a week for 6 weeks. So far I’ve written 10 and planned out the other 2. The comics are between 1 and 5 pages long.
This project stemmed from the fact that I had a strip accepted for the Murky Depths sci-fi anthology, which unfortunately got canceled. This strip was a poem comics and I’ve decided to carry on the idea as a webcomic.
So far the only set back is finding an artist but a bit more perseverance and more hounding of forums might help in this.
I’ve been doing a life drawing class recently at the Duncan of Jordanson Art College. Here are some of the sketches – they may appear a bit ‘off’ as they are not scans, but images taken with my camera.
Most of the sketches are in charcoal and some are in pastel and oil Pastel. Still got loads more to post up so they’ll come as soon as I get round to photographing them.
Steven Fraser 