Island Time!

The model for this week's class with Mark McDonnell was a Hawaiian, and gave us some great poses!

Aaaand for this one, all I had to do to finish the drawing was the girl's hands...but I was SO lazy that I just scanned it like this. Ha! 

Gesture Drawing--Muscle Beach Grandpa

We had a GREAT model at Mark's class a few weeks ago.
I did more than these, but here's some of the sketches that I threw together:

NEWS! And a small sketch...

SO tonight I had something waiting for me on my doorstep when I got home:

Haha, I was very excited. Especially so because, before mounting the stairs to my doorway, I stopped at my mailbox and pulled out a very small, boring-looking envelope from Art Center, and immediately started running through possible disaster-response options in my head. Turns out the other envelope was a random letter from the financial aid office...

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So what's up with art?

Hmm. LOTS! I've been doing a TON of work lately, but don't have time to upload it. I'll do it all next week, but hopefully this little sketch will be distracting enough until then:

It's an homage to one of my favorite artists, Jose Luis Munuera.

I recently picked up his book, "La Signe de la Lune" and was thoroughly inspired by his amazing inks and coloring, plus his downright fantastic drawing!

Here's a sample page of his work: