PICK OF THE WEEK

...well two pics , actually.

 Batman by Gavin

WIP by Vanessa

Art Exhibition by Ann Wildgust BA (Hons.)

One of my students , Ann Wildgust , is having an exhibition of her paintings. It's not fantasy art, it's a collection of work produced over the years during her travels. Ann likes to paint architecture and landscapes using vivid colour on location.

NEW ART EXHIBITION

A Collection of 16 Vividly Coloured

paintings by Ann Wildgust BA (Hons.). 

St. HELENA’S CHURCH AND THE PILGRIM FATHERS.

ST. HELENA’S CHURCH, AUSTERFIELD, 

SOUTH YORKSHIRE (8 miles South of Doncaster).

BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, 10.30AM – 5.00PM, 5TH MAY 2014.

If you live nearby,or if you just fancy a day out, go along and show some support

How To Draw Fantasy Art Vol 2

There will  be a new volume of How To Draw Fantasy Art arriving in the book stores and on amazon very soon......

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Draw-Fantasy-Worlds-Characters/dp/1782126376/ref=la_B0034PUV9I_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396702697&sr=1-3

Me so haughty, I curse you long time

There can only be one Maleficent #siouxie #siouxsiesioux #maleficent

This is a warm up sketch. I've not drawn anything at all since last Tuesday (apart from a couple of scribbles on Thursday). I feel so rusty and also very, very clumbsy, splashing ink all over it and  leaving halva grease stains (don't eat and draw at the same time !). Good job I was just messing about.

These two below are a bit better.

JANUARY-MARCH 2014:WEEK 5, 6, 7 & 8

Due to moving house and studio, it has been difficult to write blog posts to recap on each class, so this particular post will cover weeks 5-6.

Since week 4, when  I reverted back to drawing on a flip chart (see pic above),  I have noticed you all be more productive, producing more completed work, taking chances , working faster and being less overly concerned with being 100% accurate with the initial putdown and then refining the work as you went along once the layout was established. This is a good development and in my opinion has improved your work. There is a time and place for being meticulous  but for the weekly exercises where  the objective is to nail the layout, establish the lights and solids and then produce a finished scene, just to work fast and loose will be enough to enable you to achieve all on these in 2 hours. . You can always produce a more finished, detail version at a later stage.

The sketches above are not partucularly mind blowing but  acieve an acceptable level of figure work,composition and contast in a very short space of time.

 The sketch below was going to be Batman but  at the request of Anne and Richards it changed to a gargoyle. Unfortunately I had already drawn the cape  but it was good enough to follow.
This only took a few minutes which left plenty of time to follow with a Batman sketch . I chose to use te same pose rather than change direction so it was easier to follow.

After Vanessa posted this pic on Facebook and I noticed how many "likes" it received, I decided to use it for the next class.

The images works fine as a photograph idea for Facebook but it's not all that great to copy for a drawing as the angle is not very exciting.

If colour were to be added, it may look something like this (I've very crudely thrown some colour on in photshop)

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I saw one of Vanessa's WIP drawings on Facebook today. I was most impressed and thought it worthy of posting.

Vanessa, please finish this, it looks great so far.
To prepare you for next class, if you have time, have a go at doing some loose sketches of horses.