Gestures can have many purposes: warm-up, expressive exploration, form studies, or even basis for skeletal or muscular studies. They can be the loosest of scribbles or focused surgical strikes of lines. They are probably the most honest of drawings since they are more from the heart than the head. We feel, we empathize, we react [...]
Study of Icarus from Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icuarus at the AGO Toronto. A perennial favorite of mine whenever I visit. He painted it when ony 21 years old. Stunning.
Last post for 2013 and thought I would put this up: something I found this evening while cleaning up - a drawing done more years back than I want to think, but something I plan to pursue in the New Year. It was done way back in '88 or '89 when I was walking in [...]
Spent another day at the ROM with my students. Got a few sketches in. Even though they'll be cartoony for next book, it's good to get real studies of the animals I'll need.
I've been at the ROM a lot lately, but not a lot of completed works. It may not be much of an excuse but it's due to working with students while there. But I managed a few studies.Today while leaving I thought what a wonderful project it would be to go in for maybe a [...]
We were at a lovely wedding on the weekend. As usual there were speeches, and although heartfelt, they tend to go on a bit long. Happily I remembered I had my pocket sketchbook and a pencil and brush pen with me. So while others politely listened, I had my fun.
The muscles of the torso are often thought of as chest and back muscles, when in fact most, other than the obliques and the abdominals, are really muscles of the arm.I've posted these diagrams that I've begun to prepare for my anatomy master classes this summer in order to help others who find this area [...]
They may just be trees or stumps but for me there is as much learning in them as in the study of a leg or arm. Beautiful form, structure, flow and rhythm. Years ago I would take my Sheridan Animation students to draw a beautifully gnarled rotting beech trunk. It had as much expressive gesture as [...]
No end to the subjects to draw there. My only frustration is that I can't move around the specimens. Yesterday was studies of fox and wolf for up-coming book.
Assorted studies and doodles done for students Had a day at the Royal Ontario Museum with my Humber College students yesterday. It made me realize that if only I lived closer I would be there almost every day. There are simply so many wonderful and fascinating things to study and draw, from armour to amazing animals.Grizzly [...]