Sketch practice

Baby!!!

2008-01-24T19:01:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone. If you noticed, I suck at posting lately. The reason is that my daughter was born on Friday the 18th. Aulene Anora Bawden. Here's a pick. Now look at the baby and say "aaawwwwwwwwww!!!".

Short

2008-01-15T21:08:00.000-08:00

These are shorter poses than I've been doing. However, I am having trouble just throwing in a gesture line. I want to tweak it from the start and break it up into shapes. I used to get around it by throwing in some 10 second gesture drawings in order to get just the main gesture line and layout before I did anything else. Now that I have written it, I am gonna start doing that again before the other drawings in order to get warmed up. I've also noticed that it is harder to do gesture drawings from photos. I have a flattened image that I start to pick out the shapes an shadows on rather than seeing the main shape and motion. With a live model it seems easier because I can see the gesture as the model gets in position and it goes onto my paper more simply. There is probably a good explanation for this. If you have any thoughts, let me know.

I'm Back

2008-01-14T19:06:00.000-08:00

Hello. I didn't post on Saturday. I stayed on the couch all day trying to get over the cold that moved into my lungs. I didn't get up for much. I'm still sick, but I need practice, so I got some drawings done. Here is another really quick gesture drawing.

Health to Skill ratio

2008-01-11T20:42:00.000-08:00

I've noticed that when I'm sick my drawings get worse. My concentration goes down, and it takes me longer to do things. I also don't do them as well. Anyways, I still sound like a toad today and my drawings aren't very good. Tell-tale signs of a cold. I'm hoping that by tommorow I will be doing much better. We'll see tommorow.

Cold

2008-01-10T21:41:00.000-08:00

I've got a stupid cold and it seems to make everything suck right now. Even drawing. But a goal is a goal. Here is one of the pages of quick ones today. Hopefully I will feel better and do well tommorow. mmmm... Chicken soup and sleep. Yeah, I should do better after I rest some more.

two wild

2008-01-09T20:27:00.000-08:00

It's wednesday. Unfortunately I couldn't get a live model today. So it is just a lot more drawing from photos. Oh well. I do what I can. Enjoy.

Blank

2008-01-08T19:59:00.000-08:00

Don't you hate it when you can't come up with a title for a blog post. Anyways, here is one for today. Still working on gesture drawings. I am going to keep it up for awhile until I can start getting my proportions and poses more correct again. Then I will proceed to relearn anatomy, shading, etc...

Getting close

2008-01-07T20:44:00.001-08:00

My wife thinks that the baby is going to be here in the next day or two, so I may have another reason that I won't be able to post. However, for now here is a post. I did a bunch of quick gesture drawings. This was one of the quick lay in's. It was less than 45 seconds. Have fun and I will post again tommorow (unless I'm in the hospital).

Saturday's are too short

2008-01-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

I used to like erasers. I had a friend tell me that if I want my line quality to improve that I should just use ball point pens for a while and it would force me to improve. So, if you notice some obvious flaws with my lines (or multiple lines) that is why. I don't erase. I am trying to force myself to get it right the first time. Tomorrow is the Sabbath and so I won't be drawing. Sundays are strictly church and family for me. However, I will get more drawing done on Monday. Bye.

goals

2008-01-04T22:06:00.000-08:00

It's only the fourth day and I am already having trouble keeping my goals. After a long day of work I headed out on a date with my wife and now that I am back I just wanted to relax and sleep. However, for the sake of keeping up this goal I did a bunch of quick gesture drawings. This is a 45 second drawing out of the bunch. If I can keep it up I will improve. See ya. Same place same goal tommorow.

Thursday's post

2008-01-03T19:57:00.000-08:00

I didn't have a model today, so I just used some old reference photo's from college. (I don't even remember where I got most of these) However, I decided to post two pictures. A few 45 second sketches and a five minute. My line work is terrible. My hands are having trouble remembering what they are supposed to do. So, I need to get back into the practice of getting a line right the first time rather than using 20 short wiggles to define the leg.

Two Models

2008-01-02T21:01:00.000-08:00

Here are the drawings for January 2nd. I decided to post three because I really haven't posted in a long time. I had two models today (A certain to be rare event.) I only had each for a half hour though. I am working on getting a regular life drawing studio set up. But for now, I take what I can get. One was draped and the other undraped. Here are some more life drawings. I did a lot of 45 second gesture drawings and a few short sketches. One of these is a two minute drawing. The other two are three minute drawings.

New year's resolution

2008-01-02T20:28:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone,

It's been a really long time since I posted last. So long in fact, I wonder if anyone even checks this anymore. I have just been busy with work and my blog fell in priority. However, I made a news years goal that I am going to try to keep. I am going to do life drawing every day. (I may not post everyday) but Monday through Saturday I will do life drawing everyday for a whole year. You will have to bear with me on the quality. It has been a very long time since I have done any serious life drawing. Most days I won't have a model to work from, but I will have anatomy books, pictures, and any other reference I can find. I was going to delete all my old posts and start this blog from scratch so you can watch my progression over the next year. However, I will leave on the old posts for now. Here's one of the drawings I did yesterday. Like I said don't judge it just yet. I am out of practice. Look at this as a starting point for my improvement over the next year. So, this is my drawing for 1-1-2008. This was a two minute sketch. I didn't have a model yesterday so I just pulled out some of my old college reference pictures and did a bunch of short sketches. This was one of them. Suffer for now, but I hope you will start enjoying before to long.

-Henry

More Giraffes

2007-04-23T18:14:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to post more, so here are some more giraffes from my sketchbook.

Giraffe

2007-04-21T20:52:00.000-07:00

After seeing a giraffe on Marcelo's site, I decided to try studying them a little more. Here are some giraffes.

More Squirrel

2007-04-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

I'm still working on my squirrel. Here's a couple more of the latest sketch batch.

Dunno?!?

2007-04-07T22:39:00.000-07:00

Dunno what this is. I was desperate for ideas and was sketching. This kinda just happened amidst a bunch of relevant sketches for my project. Don't know what else to do with it. So here it is on a blog.

More Squirrel

2007-04-07T22:36:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately I have been unable to come up with a final squirrel character yet. I have gone through page after page of sketches and explorations but am dissatisfied. This is the most recent rendition, but I am going to keep pushing it and trying different things until I come up with something I am happy with. (Especially since I will be modeling, rigging, and animating this and so will have to deal with it for a very long time.) I need to make sure I really like the design I end up with. I will post more as I keep working on it.

More Squirrels

2007-04-03T19:12:00.000-07:00

Here is one more of many pages of squirrel exploration. My goal is to have a finalized character design by the end of the week. We will see if I have enough time. I am at least drawing a lot of squirrels and trying to make up my own. For those who have been feeling like I don't post enough, hopefully this will sate you a little. I will try to be better.

Sketchclub

2007-04-03T19:10:00.000-07:00

I haven't been posting my Sketchclub marks as regularly as I should either. Here are two marks. If you haven't visited yet go visit the sketchclubutah blog. There are some really talented guys I work with that have stuff posted.

Junk

2007-04-03T19:08:00.000-07:00

I've been feeling really bad about not posting more, so here are some random junk sketchpages.

Squirrels

2007-04-02T21:22:00.000-07:00

Because I haven't posted often enough I was feeling bad. So, here are some extra pics. I am working on a squirrel character and so like always, I am starting by drawing real squirrels to get the hang of the anatomy and shapes before I start to push and experiment with it. Enjoy.

-Henry

Hello all!

2007-04-02T21:19:00.000-07:00

Here are some more sketches. I need to post more often. I just grabbed some sketches out of my book tonight so that you wouldn't have to keep coming back to the same post. I will try and get better over the next few weeks (especially in five weeks when this semester wraps up).

-Henry

Sketches

2007-03-06T18:49:00.000-08:00

Hey, it has been a really long time since I have posted actual sketch pages in my sketchpractice blog. Here are some. I have a little 5X8 sketchbook I have been carrying around with me and filling up. So here are some of the pages from it. Enjoy.

Life Drawings

2007-03-01T20:15:00.000-08:00

Here are some life drawings for school. I had to take longer with these than I normally do. But I feel like trying new things is helping me to improve. Enjoy.