Panic, part 6

Panic, part 5

Panic, part 4

Panic, part 3

Panic, part 2

And the frantic rush continues! These images are all from various class drawing sessions but for whatever reason I didn't scan or post them here.

Napoleon Rocks Out

Well, I seem to be 12 behind the required 29 submissions. So, in a desperate act of last minute panic, I popped "Napoleon Dynamite" into the DVD player and drew some of the poses from his big dance scene. Only 10 more submissions to go... (In case you can't tell, I drew all these in brown colored pencil.)

Bird Sketches

I know this was supposed to be three pages with at least four birds per page, but I wasn't sure if that meant four of the same bird or four different birds. I ended up going with the latter, meaning I used all the suggested YouTube videos as references.

On page one we have a starling, sparrow, lyrebird and hummingbird.



















Page two has a goose, chickadee, golden eagle and oriole.





















And finally we have a blue jay, Peregrine falcon, Cardeal do Sul and...another oriole.

In Class Sketches

I drew more than just these, but I ran out of time to scan them in.

OSU Student Union

Tuttle Mall again

Return to Ballet Met

Dancers are HARD. I managed to get some fun characters from a few of their poses, though, and I tried to incorporate some imaginary shading since the brightly lit studio didn't provide any of the real stuff.

Sketches from Tuesday

Did these at the kids' play area at the Tuttle Mall.

Sketches from Last Wednesday

Why do I keep forgetting to do this?

Hands

So I drew some hands, but I forgot that I was supposed to do it in colored pencil. Whoops. Well, here they are anyway.

OSU sketches

Did these during class on Friday and forgot about them. Oops...

Student Choice: Borders

Apparently Monday afternoons are really slow at Borders, because there were hardly any people around when I went there. On the other hand, I didn't have a whole lot of time to stay there and wait for people to show up, either. This was the best I could get.

North Market and Nationwide Arena

This was actually my first visit to North Market, so that was kind of fun. It was also fun to sit above everyone and draw people from an overhead angle. It was tough, though, and after three or so pages these were the only images I felt were good enough to post.

I've been to Nationwide Arena in the past so I wasn't quite that excited about it. Neither were the people coming to see the Blue Jackets game. Got some good sitting around poses there.

Musicians Assignment

I went back to using pen on these since pencil makes me too fussy about details. I also have to confess that I cheated a bit. Instead of drawing straight from the videos, I captured stills and drew from those.

My first page is of Paco de Lucia playing Flamenco guitar. Since I'm half Spanish I felt sort of nostalgic watching this and listening to him play, and I liked those close up shots on his hands. I'm not sure what year this video is from, but the hairstyles and clothing make me think somewhere in the 60's or 70's.

The next one is Reg Kehoe & His Marimba Queens. The whole thing made me smile, especially the crazy bass player, but he was just too fast for my pen to accurately capture his wild movements. The funniest part is that I couldn't hear anything he was trying to play the whole time.

And finally we have the present era with Neko Case. I enjoyed being able to draw a female guitar player, but I don't like that bottom center image of her singing into the microphone. It looks more like she's eating it.

In Class Sketches

It's funny, I spent a lot of time drawing guitars and such for a rock band comic story last year, but they're still not any easier to do. Hands are still tough, too, even when they're cartoony!

Library Sketches

I did these drawings in the children's area of the Columbus Metropolitan Library last week. Hope it's not too late to post!

North Star Cafe

I was pretty busy on Monday so I was only able to get two pages worth of sketches done. This time I tried to capture more personal details of my subjects, which was much easier to do for people seated at the cafe around me than those passing by on the sidewalk. It's so much harder to hit a moving target.

Ballet Met Sketches

I managed to fill four pages of with sketches and squeezed all the ones I liked best into one image. Hope you like them, too.

Super Late First Post

Isn't it great to kick off a new school year with procrastination? Yeah, I know it isn't, I'm just hoping that if I make lame jokes and cram in as many sketches as I possibly can that I won't seem like such a slacker.

Anyway, I did all of these pages at the library near my apartment, and they're in reverse chronological order(that is, the newest ones are first and the oldest ones are last). I tend to think my newer drawings are the best, and this time is no exception. I just wish I'd picked a better vantage point, because sitting near the exit doors gave me too many back views of people leaving the building.