Working on my day off!

So is the life of the starving artist, that he must work at becoming a better draftsman on his day off from his day job. Art, work? Nay. Though at times it does feel like work but one must push through even when you just want to sit on the oh so comfy couch. I've once heard someone say, "A professional is someone that does what he loves, even when he doesn't want to." Thus I am a professional student.

Enough of the monkey business and on with the art. The

first image you see here is again some more master copies of Andrew Loomis. I'm learning some much just from simply copying his heads. I try and hit every line with the exact angle. Doing so takes a lot of time but again I'm learning so much. Getting the angle of the nose on the last head took me about 1/2 an hour with much of it spent on erasing. Sad, I know.

After warming up with copying some Loomis heads, I went on to sketch out this drawing. I'm working on some steam punk characters to add more figures to my portfolio. I SHOULD have started with some quick thumbnail sketches first but I just had the urge to start big. As for my punishment, I'm going to force my self to finish this guy threw. Focusing more on texture off the outfit, to help me get better at clothing and having inanimate objects looking more realistic. Since making inanimate objects looking realistic is one of my weak points. This way something good will come from my drawing impulse. The following post I'll show how far I've got'en on the figure. Till next time.

Copying from masters

So here are a few master copies I've worked on during spare time the past two days. Finding time to draw seems harder everyday. The only thing harder to find time to draw is getting myself to draw during down time, since working full time.

So I managed to find a decent copy of "Drawing the Head and Hands" by Andrew Loomis. It was a pretty penny but I don't regret it at all. Loomis is one of the rare masters that can actually explain his process is a clear way. I love this book, you can find digital copies of most of his books online. I'm just one of those people that likes having a full book case.

I didn't do any warm up drawings before hitting this book. I've purposely left the bad drawings in there along with notes to myself on where to improve, what's not working, what is working. This system is great now that I don't have a teacher. Anyway, this is going to be a short post being that my girlfriend's on the phone in the background. Till next time folks.