Drawing

In Conclusion

Natasha Minsk

Extended Pose

Warmup

These were the first few sketches from my visit to the Brimstone Drawing Club last weekend. They start off with a couple of five-minute sketches, then a ten, after which I lost track of what poses were held for what times. (No reference photos for these sketches...I was busy sketching and they were too quick to sketch and photograph.)

Natasha Minsk

The Source

A snapshot of Natasha Minsk in action at the Brimstone Drawing Club. This pose was also the source for the sketch in the previous entry.

Drawing Natasha Minsk

Natasha Minsk of The Honey Buns was the pinup model at the Brimstone Drawing Club this past weekend. She was also my first foray into figure drawing from a live model. I'll be heading back over to more Brimstones in the future.

Natasha Minsk

Moon

No pun intended. I grabbed a magazine photo of Moon Bloodgood from Maxim magazine for no other reason than to use as a colored pencil exercise. Actual size is 9"x10".

Here is the result:

This is the source photo. Everything was drawn freehand, no tracing or copying. As a result, some of the proportions are off a bit, but close enough for my purposes.

The following is a detail scan. Actual size of detail is 3"x3":

And these are all of the pencils I used in creating this drawing. I used a white charcoal pencil for the initial sketch and outline:

If I Build It

Someone told me this weekend that I should have been an architect. His reasoning was that anybody that draws diagrams for shelving as detailed as mine should have been an architect.

I built some shelves and a couple of drawers for a workbench in my studio last week. Here are the plans I used.

The shelf fits inside a rack cabinet I have that isn't completely filled up, so I can maximize the space within. You can also see a "note to self" on the sheet:

I built two of these drawers to attach beneath the photo matting workbench I built a couple of years ago:

And this is a little shelf that sits on top of the workbench:

Drawing Progress

From a couple of days ago:

And today:

Drawing

I often get the urge to draw. Every now and then I act on it: