Friday, August 22, 2008

Recoup achieved....

OK...

I am now roughly at the spot where I previously stood when I lost all my hard drive data.
This is a major landmark for me and I just felt that it warranted at least a small post.

A few more hours of work and it will be all new territory for me... and let me tell you, that's a good feeling.
The pages look even better than before and I have some new ideas regarding execution that I'd have never conceived of if not for this sort of forced "retrospect"...

Wish me luck...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

"Paging Dr. Dobberful..."

Hey Jim...

You out there?

I lost all your contact info when my hard drive went out awhile back...
Please come in, sir...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

"Tapestry"



If you could have only seen how sublimely elegant this model was in the flesh...

This is one of my more successful renditions of this languidly sensual model... just wait until I can get a proper scan of the thing!
It looks SO much more restrained in execution on the coarse paper. Somehow... the scanner inherently pushes the contrast and saturation levels too severely in every scan... and then there's the blur...

Oh well... I can only hope that when the classes begin again, this gal makes another appearance...
I actually challenge anyone to get a bad sketch out of her...

Interim...





I've seen a lot of life drawing work on my friend's blogs recently... and because I've posted so rarely these last few weeks, I figured that I would jump on the bandwagon as well!

These are a few drawings from the symposium I attended at SVA a few months back for school alumni.
Keep in mind, these are awful, blurry scans from a dying piece of hardware without the proper flatbed space for full-size newsprint pad images...

These are all 5 to 15 minutes drawings... with the exception of the last head shot ( I squeezed in another few minutes afterwards on that one to make it an 18 minute drawing).

I hope to replace these images once I get a proper scanner...













Monday, August 11, 2008

"Retread"



This is the re-do of the third page...
A bit fancier than the last go... but basically the same animal with a few touch-ups.

At this point, I just want to get the accursed thing finished...

Again, the color is much more vivid and striking in the actual full res scan... I just wish that I could post those suckers here.
What a difference a few 100 degrees of DPI makes!

Monday, August 04, 2008

"Mustn't ... give... up..."

OK... I'm on my way back, folks!

Pages 1 and 2 are completely finished (sans final tweaks) and page 3 is already 3/4 completed as well...
It's been an ugly journey so far, but at least I've managed to crawl my way back into the saddle once again. Once page 3 is squared away and I'm immersed in page 4, I'll be ALMOST back where I was before the big crash...

To be honest, the new colors look even a bit better than before... most noticeably on the third page. I'll be sure to post it once I finally get it squared away.

I'm just hoping that my new sense of urgency continues onward through the new work... wish me luck!

I'll have more artsy stuff posted soon... just gotta keep my nose to the grindstone right now...
Thanks to all of you that commiserated.

Seriously...