Anatomy Drawings VI

I had a great angle for this pose.
It was a 40 min pose and I used a black color pencil
and white charcoal on toned paper.


40 min pose with a focus on hands only.
Charcoal and traditional pencils on toned paper.

40 min pose with a focus on hands and feet.
Charcoal and traditional pencils on toned paper.

Anatomy Drawings V

This is one of my favorite drawings because of

how much I learned from it.

I really took my time to observe everything
and break it down into geometric shapes
40 min pose, charcoal on toned paper.

Study of a face and the skull as its structure.
Charcoal on toned paper.


Another study of a face and the skull as its structure.
Charcoal and traditional pencil on toned paper

Anatomy Drawings IV

This was the only sketch I was able to come up with after
6 hours at the Bodies Exhibit in NYC.
It took me a long time to do it but I was pleased with the results.

20 min pose, charcoal on toned paper.

This was a 40 min pose. I was happy with the figure

but I feel that this drawing constantly reminds me that I have to
pull back on how much white I use for the highlights.

Anatomy Drawings III

I used traditional drawing pencils for this piece.
Originally it was a 20 min pose, that I worked on for about 3 more hours.

This was a 20 min pose using charcoal on newsprint paper.

I was very pleased with this sketch.
It was a little stylized but I enjoyed it.
20 min pose, charcoal on newsprint paper.

Anatomy Drawings II

Study of my left hand. Pen and ink on regular sketchbook paper.

I feel that this was the first successful portrait I have done since I started drawing.

I had a 40 min pose for this drawing.

Charcoal on newsprint paper

Anatomy Drawings

These are some of the most successful drawings I have done from actual models not photographs. Using toned paper has definitely become a need for my life drawings. I feel that it takes away some of the work I encountered when using white paper since it takes care of most of the middle tones in a given drawing.

CERBERUS

This is my interpretation of the mythological three-headed dog Cerberus. I used foam core to create it. This was the first time I had to interpret my drawings in a three-dimensional way. It was much more difficult than I thought it would be but it was incredibly satisfying to see it finished. I used very cheap "laser finger beams" to light it up. Then I took a few photographs using a very slow shutter speed. I believe it was a 50 sec exposure. Additionally, I used a red cathode tube to illuminate the background.

Fashion Pop-UP LIGHT II

This is what it looked like when it was fully opened. The 2 abstract design allow the light to come up and illuminate the entire structure. The photographs I took were about 30 sec exposures to allow the light to show most of the details.

Fashion Pop-UP LIGHT I

This was the design I did for the front cover. It was a snowflake I created using Illustrator. There are two 6 inch cold cathode tubes underneath the design lighting it up. The color of the tubes was blue to emphasize the Winter them.

Fashion Pop-UP!!!

I decided to take pictures of this fashion Pop-up I created because of how difficult it was to create it!! I never realized how much work and thought has to go into something like this. I think that making successful illustrations is hard enough, but making them pup out is even harder!!! I learned so much from this experience, so I am really pleased with it. I was able to incorporate so many things into this project. Fashion illustration, light painting, Photoshop and Illustrator, I think that was all. It was difficult to make it light up. I used 3 cold cathode tubes for this. The tubes were attached to battery holders that were inside the boxes that hold the main image. What an experience!!