Reading Rainbow

I love it when the pose has strong diagonal lines! So much fun tonight :D

Another (weird) iPad Sketch

I'll be honest: I was not very sure about posting this image. It started as a distracted sketch, half trying to come up with a contorted, expressive pose, and half watching Orange is the New Black :P 

I drew and erased different poses, but this one interested me the most due to the strong diagonals all over. When it came time to draw the head, the silly cartoon cat face worked well for the diagonals because of the ears folding back, and the sharpness of the nose. That's really why I like about drawing these cat cartoons: the ears are an easy way to create an expressive silhouette, and you get big eyes and mouths for free! In my last cartoon from observation I discovered that I can reach the same expressive effect by pushing more subtle elements in a human character, like the strength of the hair shapes, the rigidity of the brow-forhead, and the roundness of the head shape as a hole! Maybe next time I am doodling like this I won't fall on the easy solution of the simple cartoon cat face, but for now, this is what I got. 

Tuesdays Cartoon sessions

She had a very expressive face! I was satisfied with the stylization, but I want to push it much further! I think I need to sit down and study people like Erick Sokol and Devin Crane with very close attention :o

Behind the mike

I had fun with this page of the sketchbook, so here it is :D

Distortions

IN tonight's sessions I decided to try some of the techniques described by Michael D. Mattesi in his book Character Design from Life Drawing.  It's an amazing book, with exercises that prove challenging but very stimulating.

In this particular instance, I used his technique of finding elements of the body that will have a conversation (like her butt, feet, hand and face), frame them in different size rectangles based on proximity and hierarchy, and build the body shape with forceful shapes.

The result is this creature lady in gouache. Fun times!

I started playing Dark Souls

How are you even supposed to win?!

Sprawl

Tonight's model looked like a a big cat resting, so that's what I did. Gouache for this sessions is a lot more fun than watercolor.