Monster #15

That shade of nail polish really matches your eyes, Monster 15. You're awfully smug for a little guy hiding under a green blanket from an electrical socket.

Your moogle ball is still showing, by the way.

Random Sketch: the Pug Walker

I live near a particularly nice dog park in the city. Lots of people are always out there with their 4-legged children. On one particularly sunny day, my boyfriend and I were sitting out on the grass watching them play. I complimented a couple on their particularly cute puppy.

"Oh thank you!" said the lady. "We love our little fluffy boy. Which one is yours?"

"Oh none of them yet," I replied. "But we're expecting."

Monday Night Figure Drawing Workshop

There were a lot less people this week because of the BART strike tonight. We had a neat old guy with neat poses and good lean muscle tone come and model for us. He did mostly 2's and 3's. Here is a sampling from the middle of the evening.

Character Design Homework #3

Part of the homework for class #3 was to try and design characters based off of the Jekyll and Hyde silhouette studies that we did 2 weeks ago. My Hyde one didn't come out like I was hoping, but my Jekyll, or "Canadian Wilderness explorer Jack Hall" ended up in an okay place. Here he is.

Character Design Homework #2

This week's homework was to do another version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a silhouette study. My version was of Mr. Jeck Hull, an intrepid Canadian explorer in the 1940's going through the mountains in search of a creature terrorizing some local livestock near a native burial ground. But there is something wrong with the land, and he finds himself turning into a confused, threatening beast only known as "The Hide."

This was my first time doing these, and it was really difficult. Honestly I don't think I did a very good job of defining and pushing my shapes, and if I had time, I'd do another page of both characters. Still, it was fun to do, and I resolve to do more of these on my own time, especially when preparing for longer term projects.