Showing posts with label figure drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figure drawing. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Comic-Con Art Show Announcement


Art Show at San Diego Comic-Con (Chris Thorne - Artist)

Start Time:
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 8:00am
End Time:
Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 4:00pm
Location:
San Diego Convention Center (Sails Pavilion)

Description 

Chris Thorne - Artist will have multiple pieces of artwork on display during the Art Show at San Diego Comic-Con, which runs from Thursday the 22nd through Sunday the 25th. Comic-Con attendees & exhibitors are invited to take a moment out of the craziness that is SDCC to stop by Sails Pavilion and check it out!

There are approximately 200 artists exhibiting work during the Art Show and most of the work will be available for purchase via a silent auction or quick sale. I am pleased to be exhibiting amongst a group of high caliber artists. I will be visiting the display off and on throughout the exhibit and hope to see some of you there!

If you have friends who are coming to Comic-Con please feel free to pass on an invite to visit the Art Show!

For more information on Chris Thorne and my artwork, please visit http://www.christhorneart.info/ or http://sketchbookbychris.blogspot.com/

Monday, January 25, 2010

Redesign of Crime Noir piece





Redesign of the Crime Noir piece I did last week.  I had a buddy help me with some better photo-reference and that helped a lot.  I mean a lot!  adding the gun helped but I think the body position is 101% improved.  First pic up is the pencils, then the line-art and finally the scan. 

Inked - Crime Noir Piece


I am kind of on the fence with how I feel this one came out.  It says "victim" to me and not "danger".  Any way the crime noir piece is finished and I am waiting to hear what the client says.  I did another version of this that I will post later.  It says "danger" the guy has a gun and looked a lot tougher.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Crime-Noir



 

I am doing a job for a guy who is doing a script for a crime-noir webseries.  This is one of my sketches.  All of the black is surprisingly intimidating.  Although the man is supposed to be a detective, he seems more like a zombie.  So I am changing the guy.  Took some reference photos yesterday, hopefully I can make him a bit more...tough?  Yeah tough.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Ken Elvistrooper Tarleton - Fan art





A sketch of one of my favorate comic con regulars.  Ken Elvistrooper Tarleton.  He is way too cool for me to be drawing, but I dig this pose and wanted to draw it.  Pen and ink in my brown paper sketchbook.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

New Luke Skywalker Lineart




Here is a sketch and the line art from the sketch. I think I might try inking this with the computer before I start with markers. I have to say, I love the sketch so much more that the line art, but I think that is because the sketch has some shading and the line art has nothing but...possibility. I am stretching...growing...I hope... LOL

Friday, July 10, 2009

Wonder Woman Birthday Commission


This is a commission I did for my friend Marie (Happy Birthday!) at the request of her husband Kenny. I hope she likes it. :)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Great night last night



What a great night last night. We usually start with a series of 90 sec sketches to loosen up. Last night we did something different. The model would take a step, and hold it for about 60 sec and then make another movement. He started on the floor and stepped onto the stage and off again. It was kind of frustrating at first until I found my subject. His feet and legs. I just drew the feet and legs and nothing else. I didn't even actually draw the stage but I drew him on and off of it. I think it turned out quite well.

The next pose was about 40 min and this one really came together well. I feel good about the proportions and the face and to overall feeling of the piece. Soemtimes, when you actually draw a face on a life drawing if feels that you need to alot too much time to the face and it looks out of sorts with the quality of the rest of the drawing. Not this time, this seems to mesh very well.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Things clicked last night!



Another great model last night. She was very easygoing and had some really great poses.
The top sketch is from the beginning of class, I just felt the proportions on this on were really better than my average.
The middle is the 2nd hour sketch and there are a few things that don't work about this, I felt this was a good example of my "stretching" I got out of my comfort zone and used some chalk and tried to create and entire feeling instead of just drawing the model.
The bottom one was the last sketch of the night and it just felt right. It turned out to be a real good portrait, it looks just like the model. So I was real happy with that.

Comments and crit are always welcome.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Very Satisfying Session Tuesday!


Another great model Tuesday. She was very creative and he had nice curves to draw. The focus this week was to incorporate items into the drawing, to create a narrative in the piece. I thought it turned out very good, I was very pleased with my sketches this week.

The bottom on was the model and a mannequin, in an embrace.

The top one was the last pose of the evening, I took some liberties with her figure and tried to exaggerate the "warrior woman" theme of the pose.

Great Model on Thursday!

This was the last pose on Thursday. This guy was great, he is a dancer and during the exercises he was making some great poses, very interesting and dramatic. Most of the class was done on newsprint, doing movement exercises. But this last one was great lighting contrast and I really felt I got a lot out of this pose. Let me know what you think.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Nine in 9


Great class last night! We did an exercise of 9 sketches / 9 minutes. We did 9 sketches and took 9 minutes on each sketch. The instructor challenged us to use a varitiy of media and/or techniques and use some of the things we talked about in class, like composition. I found it very challenging, and by the ninth sketch, I was drained. The top sketch was a 40 minute sketch at the end of class. The head is WAY too big and that really messed my appreciation of the body I drew. I was really happy with the proportion of the body and I pushed and tried to spend some quality time on the face and messed it all up. argh.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Thursday Class 4/30/09






So last night was a pretty satisfying class. We started out with 8 90-sec sketches and we did a couple of ink wash poses for about 15-20 minutes. Second-half of the class was a "freestyle" pose of about 25-30 minutes. I got 2 charcoal pieces done, The middle one was first and I start out with these broad lines that just kinda worked and after a while, I liked where it was at and didn't figure that I was going to improved it any. So I did the bottom one in about 10 min. Darker charcoal and smudged it all around and took the eraser to it to bring up the highlights and neaten it up a bit. The top page is 3, 5-min poses and I did them all on the same page. Again, in charcoal.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Thursday Class Homework - Done




Homework this week was to sketch 3 figurative sculptures. I chose, (From the top down) Rodin's Pierre de Wissant, Tadolini's St Michael the Archangel and St. Michael Casting Satan into Hell by Vaccaro. I found that the Rodin was surprisingly challenging and the Vaccaro was the most satisfying. Maybe not the best execution, but pretty satisfying. All took a little over and hour to do. Please, comments and crit would be very welcome.


Wednesday, April 29, 2009

From Thursday's Class





We had a great model for class Thursday. The first sketch was a 10-minute pose where she was moving slightly during the pose and so it threw weveryone for a loop. I thought is was a great exercise.
The one above that is charcoal on newsprint and I thought it was a really nice pose. I should have spent a little more time on the eye, I just threw it on there and it is obviously not right for the face. But I thought I got some nice subtle shadows of the back.
The top one was my favorate of the night, harsh contrast and a great pose. I needed to use some white charcoal to really beef up the lighting, cause just erasing wasn't getting the point across.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Spring Break Homework (cont'd)



Well I finally finished my Spring Break homework. I choose "Crucifixion of St. Peter" by Guido Reni, I loved the drama of the moment, great contrast and more than one person in the painting. I used charcoal for this, and this is in my sketchbook, I really worried about getting a mess everywhere...I just gotta get over that...
The top picture is "St. Jerome" by Leonardo da Vinci. I only had one day to do this one and I pretty much finished it in about an hour and a half. I thought I really captured the look and feel of the original.
I was planning on doing a Singer-Sargent, Nude Egyptian Girl, but as I was doing okay with the body, the face, the real key to the painting was just giving me fits. I even did a study just of the face and I was just not having any luck with it....So I bailed, because the teacher should be able to tell what painting the sketch was from and without nailing the face, there was no way he was going to be able to tell it was a Sargent. Anyway, I was pretty proud of my homework.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Catching up on posts



On Spring Break...These are from a couple of weeks ago. The top one is focusing on light and dark, no greys, just light or dark.
The bottom on is just a freestyle, last one of the night, just using charcoal.

Friday, March 27, 2009

LOL! I was a model last night!



Okay, so we didn't have a pro model last night so the instructor asked if anyone would volunteer. A calssmate and I stepped up. These two are by my instructor and one of my classmates. "Drawing you without actually drawing any of 'you'..."


This one is the one I did of my classmate. I was really happy with how it turned out. The edges aren't as sharp as I would like, but it feels real and I think looks a lot like her. Again, drawing someone without actually drawing any of 'them'. Interesting format.


Thursday, March 26, 2009

Studies of Feet












Homework...Ah you gotta love it. Studies in Feet. I was lucky that I had models, cause there was no way I was gonna draw my feet. That would have meant a little too much "artistic license" LOL