A Winner is Me

I went to Naked Lunch today, hosted by Powerhouse Animation. It's a figure drawing session that happens every month, and it always ends with all the artists showing off their favorite page of work, and then the model chooses his/her favorite. In the past, Paul Richards had continual reign of supremacy until he got a job in California with Blizzard.
Today, I took the prize. Here are the winning pages for your viewing pleasure.

manufacturing portfolio pieces

I've recently realized that drawing from photographs is not cheating. As a result, I've been spending a bit of time in front of my computer with a giant pad of paper and a conte crayon recently.

Figure drawing

I'm trying to make my stuff look more good.

Posemaniacs.com

it rocks my want-to-go-figure-drawing-but-too-lazy-to-get-out-of-the-house socks.

Stuff you haven't seen yet.

Conference Weekend

This last weekend was General Conference, which means an excuse to draw one of my favorite subject matters: old people! I also used this as an opportunity to do some portraiture of my friend Casey, who's in the process of having me convince her to like me as much as I do.
I decided it would be a really bad thing if I came over to her house and drew her badly, so in the week prior to me drawing her, I did a few hours of practicing attractive female portraits, and I think the practice paid off.

busting out the big newsprint pads

I recently got a part-time gig teaching art at Cordovan School of the Arts. It's a lot of fun showing kids how to do stuff like paint a watercolor sunset with a rhino's silhouette in front of it and trying to explain things like why construction lines are necessary and why you shouldn't draw them sharpie-dark.
One of the perks is that I get to do some free figure drawing every week, and I finally decided to buy myself a big newsprint pad, some Conte crayons, and nupastel sticks. It feels good to be drawing like this again, and I think after going through a sketchbook per month for the last nine months, I'm excited to pump out some portfolio pieces.

Figure Drawing, again.

Figure Drawing

All apologies to my parents, who sent me to BYU just so I wouldn't have to draw naked people in my figure drawing classes, but I found out about some open figure drawing classes in Austin and I just had to go.
Here's a 30-minute pose.

I did figure drawing today

It's been at least a year since I last did any figure drawing and I decided that it's high time I got around to doing it again. While I like how it turned out, I decided that I've still got a while before I'm on par with the likes of Adam Ford or Jeff Hein.