D.I.C.E 2012!

So D.I.C.E happened 2 weeks ago, and it. was. EXCELLENT!!! I had a blast at it. So here is some of the art I got at it.

Now it's no secret I'm a Tommy Lee Edwards fan, but I might have taken full advantage of him being in Ireland this time. I got 4 pieces off him, the first is a cover of wolverine 310, the second is a sketch Sinead secretly got me, she said he was delighted to draw his own character for her. Love this cause Sinead loves the 20's era stuff so I think it might have converted her to a "sketch hunter". The third piece I bought off Tommy Lee, it was a toss up between the Galactus piece and a cowboy piece... Galactus won out when it turned out Sinead liked it too. I'll have to post the 4th piece later.

 The next artist I got a sketch off was the brilliant Dave Johnson. Talk about an excellent bloke. Sometimes you worry about meeting artists you love, you know the whole don't meet your heroes etc. But Dave johnson was an absolute gent. And what a talent!!! love his stuff. He did this sketch in about 10 mins, and I love it.

Last but not least, I got a sketch of Jeff Parker. Jeff is a writer with Marvel (and other things), and this is pretty "sweet for a writer". Jeff was a brilliant meet, he writes the thunderbolts comic my friend Dec was artist on, and we were cracking jokes at each other and had a great chat about comics.

Other than that it was an excellent weekend. I think it was a brilliant weekend for Irish talent too. Both my friends, Stephen Moondog Mooney and Willl Sliney had personal panels in which they talked about their creator owed projects. Steve actually got to announce that his book, Half Past Danger, will be printed by IDW.... which is amazing.

Nothing better than talking comics while drinking beer...

oh... and I joined twitter because of it too.... @teehanwolf

More Fencing Life drawing

So in life drawing on Tuesday we had Doug, the fencing instructor again. This was another excellent session. And we had the added bonus of having Niall (the tutor) pose too!

For the session I also went to A2 paper. Forgot how much better it is working at that scale. Only problem was scanning it! However, upon scanning it I found some of the drawings really worked with this added cut-off. So I'm posting some of those too.

Used purely graphite sticks for drawing. Think it worked best in the previous session, so I wanted to use it again.

Kinda prefer this version - obviously in photoshop I erased the leg line

really happy with these 2 poses

happy with how the sword and the arm almost form one line

 

Here are the 2 min drawings.

think  this works equally well cut off like this

didnt try blocking with this one, happy with the line work in it.

 

the right arm is a little messier than i wanted, but i posted this cause I like the left arm

After the 2 min sessions we went to Multiple movement poses. Still struggling with how I want to have these on a single page. Usually they turn into a jumbled mess o' lines. This time I decided to let the blocking of the torso do most of the work and keep the line work to a minimum. These 2 turned out closer to what I want to do for this exercise. (the first atempt was horrid!)

this moves from right to left

Middle pose 1st. left pose 2nd, right pose 3rd

The last few drawings are from when Niall joined Doug in his fencing gear, so we would have 2 models. This was the first time I've ever had this in life drawing"classes", and I loved it.

think this works really well cropped

like this cropped version too

Fencing Life Drawing

 

So we had Fencing instructor in last session for life drawing. This was a brilliant class. The model himself had done life drawing classes and as a result we got some excellent posing. 

I started off as usual with some graphite drawings. I think these the most successful of the session, the speed of the graphite allowed for some translation of the poses' speed.

(as a bonus, the instructor himself felt I caught the poses right)

When drawing using the graphite, I blocked out the torso and then worked in the lines.

happy with the near knee here

The model liked this pose

 Probably my favorite of the graphite drawings

I then returned to the technique I used the previous session. Don't think it worked as well this time, the samurai costume suited it better I think. Still, some of it worked... think I got bogged down with drawing too much.

Here the elements on the right work better, the arm and leg. However  I then worked in too much on the torso.

 

 

The leg works well here. (had to go in and erase some stuff in the torso)

Instead of blocking out this time, tried just using the edge

Again the elements on the right are closer to what i wanted.

Life drawing - Aiki Jujitsu

So last week we had an Aiki Jujitsu model for life drawing. Think of it as a samurai.

It was a pretty great class. Had been a while since I'd drawn a model with cloths on and the costume he wore was great. (I joked with Pete that it was kinda like drawing a Jedi)

It was also the last class that Simon will be at and we sat together. Think it worked out really well for both of us, having someone beside you trying out some new approaches. Here's his blog http://tweakoverkill.blogspot.ie/2012/08/lifedrawing.html



The first set are where I used graphite stick.

 

Tried out poster paint and instead of a brush, used card to paint with. Very happy with the results.

probably my favourite one