Artbook Painting

I have recently been very inspired by contests, more specifically Dominance Wars. An incredible fight between online art forums to see which one has the best artists, this does not just mean North America, Korea and Russia seem to be making a great impression. The theme was Generals in a portrait style, I loved the idea and took a general from one of my stories and tried it out. I thought it would be great to try and put this into the Seneca Artbook for 2009 (which I have been painstakingly helped in), it's been a pleasure but there has been time that I will never get back. But, I digress, back to the piece, I really like the concept and it has been changing constantly. At first he was going to be yelling forward but then I wanted him more calm and collected, he is a prestigious commander of his army and I even most recently thought of him floating... (If you are wondering if he is too small, I just like having huge armor and I am not in love with the chest plate) We will see, I will get back to it tomorrow, maybe show some people and get feed back on where I should go.

Here is the sketch from where I started:
Here is where I am now:


There we go...

Okapood Doodle

Getting to draw for myself with my little Okapood, which is my passion for drawing, wrapping it's self around my life and taking over it...Feels good as you can see. =P

Life Drawings

Some life drawings I did, first one is 30 Seconds, i liked it... but trying to do different styles.



Second is 10 Minute exaggerated, trying to push a little and push some stuff.

TEL Caf Sketches Heads

Sitting in the TEL building Cafeteria drawing people, mostly heads, some bodies. This drawing was done over the course of probably 5 to 6 hours in 2 or 3 days. I'll be uploading another page of heads and bodies pretty soon.

Life Drawing

I've been going to Life Drawing about 4 to 5 times a week to really practice and get great. The first weeks have been tough with assignments (which was what I expected and actually wanted), I work better under pressure.

The first few weeks I wasted an amazing amount of time going downtown to get a check from work like 3 to 4 hours, and the first time I went it was closed! The agency is open from Tuesday to Thursday from 12:00pm to 5:00pm, but on a random day (which had to be the only day I could go) it was closed! As I read the scribbled note on the agency door, I was quite angered because I would have to come the next day and make time to get the check so total of 6 to 7 hours wasted in the week. Not totally wasted because I had done some sketching of very interesting people on the subway and bus, as well as some observing and imitating for acting class (which I enjoy very much).

My management skills have improved and I am thinking ahead, the experience of first year has tremendously helped out. I see how important it was to go through that year though.

Anyways here are couple life drawings I thought were alright, I WILL post better ones!