Just a materials test – no time to get into a real deal painting tonight. I was looking at some Chris Berens today, got me thinking about drawing on tracing paper again. Haven’t done it in a long time. Wanted to get a bit of his fun blurry, layered feeling. This really isn’t *it* just kind of a warm up…
Updated: did a second one…wanted to try it with a couple of layers…I kind of like this stuff…it’s way more fun than drawing on the PC all day :)
cross posting from Uncovered Art:
Had five hours with the model today. She did an amazing job with this no doubt painfully-stretched-neck pose. I’m doing watercolor as usual – so I’m doing my trick of working multiple drawings at the same time.
Did this graphite drawing in between washes…it’s probably the best likeness. (Drawing enhanced with blurring and tinting in photoshop).
nothing to say about this yet – might turn into something later…
Went out last night to a Pirate drawing party put on by the Gallery Girls. They always put on a good show…but I have to say – salty sea shanty’s make for mind-numbing music after a few hours – those pirates could NOT spit it.
Zip on over to Uncovered Art for the racy images….
Cross posting here from Uncovered Art - as these aren’t technically “uncovered” (of course, most everything else on that blog is naked :)….
Just got back from drawng at Dr. Sketchy’s. For whatever zany reason, the theme tonight was girls on bikes…something to do with a Queen song?…I’m not sure what it means, and I didn’t think too hard about it – just got busy sketching!
On the last one there – you’ll have to imagine your favorite bike….
Was just linked over to the Home project channel up on youtube. (Thanks Dave!) Amazing aerial photography. I’d love to see it on IMAX sometime. The film is also a very lucid, very weighty, presentation of the dangers of climate change and unsustainable development. I imagine educators such as my childhood hero David Suzuki (who was discussing these issues 10-15 years ago) would like the film – but be disturbed that issues are taking so long to penetrate our brains. It’s ironc that the message can only be brought to home by incredible technologial pressentatons like this.
On a personal note – I was involved in a game pitch a while back that was canceled before it even began. Pretty much no interest at all from our publisher. They couldn’t see the niche for a game without weapons or enemies. We were trying to get across exactly this kind of imagery with the concepts. Sadly I wasn’t able to be convincing enough at the time. (In my own trivial way, like Mr Suzuki and his sustainablity message). Sometimes there are things you just can’t ’sell’ with a static drawing. I wish we had had this amazing film to show what the aerial experience could have been like…
Last night; hanging out with friends sketching demons and demon hunters…
OK! – it’s been a few years art blogging here! I’ve gone and done a huge re-organization – to compartmentalize all my stuff into separate blogs. The figure painting and life drawing is going up at Uncovered Art, and all the plein air and urban sketching is now hosted at Citizen Sketcher.
The idea here is to allow people to follow just the content they’re interested in – and to allow me to get a little weirder with what goes on here at SketchTaro. Hope it all pans out! (it could end up being a pain, managing all the posts, but hey, we know blogging expands to fill available time :) I’ll be messing around with the format a bit over the next few days – and I think I’ll post notices here for a while when new stuff goes up on the other blogs…
Found these on an old thumb drive, thought I’d show them for no particular reason…these are concepts for loading screens…the filler artwork that appears behind the progress bar – something to while away the time waiting for the Xbox to load the next game level.
Even while I was doing these, I kind of knew they’d never be used. It’s sort of inevitable at the end of the day that we’d go with the actual game models, instead of a sketch – so much goes into the 3D characters – it’s sort of silly not to show them all rendered up and sweetened. But! It was a chance to try some texture brushes, and test out a speed painting approach…
