Fun and Quick Cast Drawing

Eric Pedersen showed me a fun way of doing cast drawing today, using charcoal powder, charcoal sticks and brushes. Cast drawings typically take forever but this painterly approach really jump-starts the process. This is maybe 1 1/2-2 hours, and it already has a sense of form.

Apparently this is how Rick Morris taught cast drawing. Too bad we never got that class!!!

Of course my shapes are unrefined and my edges too, and I've made this ancient Greek into a Frenchman by giving him a beret in place of hair. But I'm inclined to try more of these, and maybe push one farther...

Studio D 9/6/09

I went to the Studio D workshop for the first time. The neighborhood's a little scary, but the sketching was good, and James Galindo made us burgers. That's how you run a workshop!

Jennifer's the model.

I've completely forgotten how to push the gesture. And I still don't know how to deal with connecting core shadows...

A Proper Context

This will set the mood.

Okay, so I have improved since starting at LAAFA a year ago. I'll try to find my first attempt at quick sketch to post eventually.

Still, so far to go... At least I'm enjoying it.

And nothing is better than those four letters, burned into the paper with my pencil like a flaming knife, a brand of infamy, anger and pain. And worse, when the crap is mega.