mouth: facial feature study

Here are the mouths from week 7 of my figure drawing class. Most of these are from drawing book or online references, although a couple are from my own mirror studies.

nose: facial feature study

Here are the noses from week 7 of my figure drawing class. This first page has a bunch of famous noses towards the top – can you guess who’s who?

eyes: facial feature study

In my figure drawing class, we’ve been focusing on close studies of individual features. I’ll be posting two pages each for eyes, noses, mouths & ears over the next few days. I drew most of these from references – both from drawing books & online resources  (you may be able to make out my handwriting for the names of the authors) as well as from photos….

happy halloween!

Here’s a creepy facial muscle study to celebrate: graphite on 11″ x 14″ sketch pad

arm & leg muscle anatomy

Our figure drawing class has been focusing on muscle anatomy over the last couple weeks – here are the drawings I submitted for arm & leg schematics –

figure drawing, module 2

Here’s some work from my second week of figure drawing classes – these took about 1/2 hour each. prismacolor drawings in 11″x14″sketchbook – our instructor provided reference photosWe’ve had to submit a number of shorter gesture drawings as well – here are a couple 3 min drawings: prismacolor drawings in 11″x14″sketchbook – live model reference The process is a little frustrating since I haven’t…

figure drawing – first assignment!

So, my online classes are in full swing. I just finished my first week’s homework for my Figurative Concepts class. Right now I’m mostly drawing from photo references but am planning to head out to some local figure drawing meetup sessions soon.  Here’s a selection from this week’s assignment – compressed charcoal figure drawings on 18″x 24″ newsprint – our instructor provided the photo…

woodland animal masks

I recently left my full time job at the Museum of Science, but before I did I was happy to work on these masks for the Discovery Center. If you’ve never been there before, you should go – it’s an awesome hands-on science space for kids 8 & under. They had some animal masks they’d been using for woodland animal interpretations but the original…

birds #26 & #82

Two more little birds from the 100 birds project. I didn’t have a chance to color all of them – well, most of them. Maybe one day I’ll compile them into a coloring book! Then you could choose whatever colors you’d like. These guys were sketched freehand from online photo references.

tunnel sketches

3rd floor, my parent’s house in Brooklyn Montreal fire escapes  These are pencil sketches from a while ago – working on depth & perspective.