Life drawing coloured in.

Life Drawing

I've recently started going to some untutored life drawing classes in Holborn, London. They have two models each week, one does a long pose while the other does short 20 minute poses. I prefer the short poses as I get to practice many in one evening.  Here are a few of the results from my sketchbook:

Week 2

 Week 1 I worked in a different pad that had bigger paper but I now prefer to work directly into my A4ish sketchbook, it's smaller but I find it's easier to carry around and everything stays together. I find I have a particularly sketchy style which on the whole I like. I'm particularly proud of the arm in the top picture.

 I have a tendency to chop off feet, something I am trying to improve apon.

 In this one I ran out of room for the hands.

Week 3

The male model turned up late so I drew the long pose female model while we waited. For some reason I drew two 20 minute poses on one sheet so decided to do some small detail detail drawings while I waited for the next pose.

 Again chopped off his foot, but I like how I interpreted his back. 

 I know! It's ridiculous how I keep doing it. But on the whole I like this one the best. Something is not quite right about his deltoid, but other than that I like it.

Week 4

Huzzah! I managed to keep his feet in, and yet, my usual sketchy style just was not working for me this time.

 Back to chopping off feet and I was still struggling. The model had a massive physique, even his muscles had muscles, he kept moving about so much, even his muscles didn't seem to stay in the same place.

 I decided to try something a little bit different and take my time and not be as sketchy, I think it came out really well, and look, his feet are in the drawing!

 This one was definitely the best of the evening, I was a lot more deliberate with the lines and took my time and tried not to be so sketchy. I still think I can do better though. Looking forward to the next class.

New work space.

I've recently moved in with my girlfriend to a new flat in London. This means I can set up a better work area than my last place.

So I've bought myself a new desk and lamp with a chair on the way. I also plan on getting some new digital illustration stuff soon. But in the mean time I'm going to go old school with some pencil crayons.

Here are some of my drawings since getting the desk.

Here is Dominic having an onsen bath in a slow cooker.

Here he is playing with his friend Mr Ernest Cuddlesworth.

As it's almost Halloween I drew him dressed as Frankenstein's Monster.

Sorry for the poor quality (drawings?) photos, took them on my ipad. I'm sure I will get around to some non-Dominic drawing soon :P

Also here is a photo of the real Dominic in monster slippers:

Another image inspired by Dominic, my girlfriends family like to say he is a sheep when he is quite clearly a donkey! :P

This is an illustration I drew inspired by Dominic the Donkey who is a large and important part of my girlfriends and my life.

11 Second Club

I've created a new animation, this time I decided to enter a competition where you animate to 11 seconds of audio. Fingers crossed I get at least in the top 50! Competition is fierce!

Copyright Rick Thompson 2012

Finished Animated Project

The sound has been finished for my animation. Thanks goes to Bob Field for spending his free time doing it for me. See below the finished YouTube video. You can also see it on Newgrounds at: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/589994