More observational Drawings

These are sketches from Saturday, I ended up buying a new sketchbook because the other drawings were done on loose paper and it's going to be hard to track all of them.

(I had sketches from Friday and they're in my room....

somewhere...)

I like drawing these in ink because it forces me to think more about where I make my marks. I still go through the process of constructing the figure but I can't go back and erase them. Walter King said the reason he would have us draw in pen was because if we erased our mistake we would make the same mistake again.

I decided to do a foot study, maybe I'll do one with hands, eyes, lips and other features.

Blog-tastic

So Sunday at work was pretty slow so I ended up drawing on the back of my recipe cards...

I've been thinking about my schedule and when I have free time isn't when people chill at cafes and stuff so I might use pixel lovely and other photos as reference to supplement practice but in conjunction with life observations. Still focusing on human figures.

Portfolio Stuff:
So taking into consideration what we covered on Tuesday I'm going to attempt to alter my blogspot to accommodate the portfolio functions...It's going to take some figuring out but I would like to try. If it's too difficult I'll just make a wordpress.

Creative Habit

I want to do more observational drawings to practice proportions and perspective. I suppose it would be similar to café sketch or commercial figure drawing. My focus will be people, their clothing, facial structure, emotion and actions.

To do this I plan on visiting various establishments (North Market, Convention Center, Crane, and cafeteria) for an hour or two and sketching.

I’m considering how media will play in to this (i.e. microns, pencils, markers, watercolor) I’m not sure if I should limit myself or use these interchangeably. Perhaps just focus on the ones I’m least comfortable with to build up my strength in using the material.

I really want to practice digital so maybe once a week I’ll compile a few drawings and do a digital value/color study knowing that color is another area I would like to improve.

Big Heads

Big enough? Bigger??

Music

For a single song that would be throughout the video I really liked the play list that Marina posted.

For the personal song it was suggested to use something that felt circus-y or carnival like so I found this song that might work for me.

I'll work on adjusting some of the head sizes of the animals and repost it.

Gif Sandwich

....YUP

I've been listening to music but nothing I'm too crazy about.
I'll bring in a Halloween CD but it's spooky classical music and i figured we wanted more of a technological sound to it. Plus the whole commercial use copyright thing.

Choosy moms choose GIF

So this is what I have at the moment, I've messed with the timing some and would like to know if it's running too fast or too slow. Also could we cover how to save the file for optimal efficiency? Because I've been struggling with file size and don't want to sacrifice any of the quality seeing as we want a consistency through the presentation. This gif is 128 color and 50% of the original size.

Hows this for the animal heads? Think the silhouettes are enough? I figured the eyes would be the accent of red.

In this the necks have been covered and I kind of like the look of it...