CrowdStar Figure Drawing

 

He did that – covering his privates – pose last time. This guy is really good though.

Legion of Honor

La Crescenta Weekend

My favorite part of this sketch is the cast shadows on the rooftop. I meant for them to all go the same direction.

This is the duty free shop in the United Terminal.

These mountains are worthy of a long digital painting. This sketch does not do them justice.

Still Life Painting: Ivy and Roses

It's ivy and roses. Doesn't look like 2 hours of work but it is.

Costa Rica: Atenas View from Balcony

I started with a sketch this time. Spent a bit more time on the initial sketch than usual. It resulted in a much tighter painting, which I like. More accurate perspective and clearly overlapping shapes.

I spent about an hour on the painting–trying to capture the light before it changed–then spent about another hour touching up gaps and stuff.

Sierpe Sundown

The sun has already dipped below the tree line here. A couple of minutes before I started the clouds where all pink. I missed it but decided to paint anyway. The tree is probably a little too bright here.

About 30 minutes later. Everything but the sun itself is significantly darker and less colorful.

Costa Rica Mountain and Cloud Paintings

A couple of hours spent outside watching the mountains and clouds. The clouds were big and puffy when I sat down like this.

This is about a half hour later. A little different.

I took a break and came back to the same painting. The puffy clouds turned into thin strips.

Still Life Painting: Skull with Vases

I felt like I needed a refresher on the fundamental practice of still life. Painting glass is a strange experience.

Cowboy Guy

This fella really got into character with the cowboy costume.

Interesting Parking Lot

When you don't feel like sitting on the ground, a parking lot sketch from a nice table seems okay.

New Figure Drawings: One Minute Poses

More one minute poses. Still working on accuracy, speed and movement.

Sketching Again

Just another Pac Heights morning.

The Beauty of the Inner Richmond.

Gorman. I have always been fascinated by this place. Historic rest stop, and the site of Christo's Yellow Umbrellas. The hills and the pylon should be taller.

La Jolla

I thought this was going to be a neat sketch with the row of palms and everything but the scale is wrong here and the pencil I brought was hard and dull. I should have sketched everything smaller with less detail including the ground plane, which would reveal the true height of those palms. Tall.

Recent Figure Drawings

Perhaps you can tell from his expressions that this guy enjoys modeling. Funny.

After APE

After 3 hours of APE, I decided that an afternoon sketch was in order. I used the Alvin Mechanical HB and digitally painted in the grays.

Thanks to the fine artist who exhibited this year! Keep up the good work.

I Visited Atascadero

Pen Sketches from Life

Sketching from TV

Order of the Black Eagle. A terrible movie.

Freedom Sketching

Enjoying the outdoors on September 11th. Posting some recent sketches from my travels.

 

Top: Boulder Creek, Middle: Los Angeles, Bottom: San Francisco

Roller Derby Posters For Everyone

Somebody in Tennessee wants to buy one of my roller derby posters. That's pretty cool!
They are for sale so don't hesitate to ask.

13"x19" inkjet print on watercolor paper

Copy of Portrait of a Gentlemen

This is something that we saw at the Legion of Honor. Upon looking at this now, I think it would have been better to spend about 20 minutes on a rough sketch to study the color palette and composition, and then just paint something from life. But check out my process below to see how I work.

Male Figure Drawing and Saving Paper

Some sketches of a male model from class. There was some extra room so I copied some ladies from the Anthropologie catalog and painted gentlemen from the Legion of Honor collection.

The Château

Burlingame, California

Roadside Sketching on a Long Drive

 The only relief from the brutal Sunday traffic.

Female Figure Drawing

I really captured her profile in this sketch. It just looks like her.