23012010

a couple of weeks ago i was able to finally go to life drawing for the first time in months. i was out of practice but it felt pretty good. i should probably mix up the media i use more but i still find it challenging to capture something i'm completely happy with. every once in a while i'm ok with the session. the drawings below from an earlier session occurred on such a day. life drawing at ocad, in moleskine.

one minute poses.

five and ten minute poses.

twenty minute poses. i think i'm going to break out the brush pen more.

speaking of mixing it up, i really love francis vallejo's life drawings.

his other work is, uh, ok too. check it out and you'll see what i mean. this kid's a machine and seems to really breathe through his work. check out his blog here, too.

bestiary: adélie penguin

these guys live in the antarctic like other penguins. i can't believe they can dive something like one hundred seventy five metres and will swim nearly two hundreds miles to get food. talk about a trip to the grocery store. i find it interesting that they form nests in part with stones. penguins are wicked. adélie penguins in moleskine.

marieke & danny & erwin & max & eduard

i really love experimental jetset's work. you need to go to their site now. i could spend days looking at their archives and i really appreciate that they actually took the time to explain their pieces. yeah, i know - sometimes if you have to explain the concept it may not be as good. i can appreciate that. i tend to disagree with that notion though. mostly because i'm probably too daft to fully understand things sometimes, ha ha. but hey, some took shannon's channel coding theorem at face value and some wanted to see the proof behind it.

anyway, the idea for the poster is my little homage to these talented dutch folks. they conceived this idea years ago and it's been redone several times over. i did a little bit of checking and didn't see a radiohead version. i thought that that was blasphemy. so i made my own. rather than completely recycling the idea, i thought i'd add a little twist to signify the brotherly connection between members of the band. at the same, i thought i'd try and acknowledge a pair of swiss fellows who helped make jetset's poster possible as well.

version three

redesigned my website. give her a gander if you so please. and thanks.

subway doodles 2

soodles? sudles? brutal. a few more commuter drawings.