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cartoon character skeleton - study of Disney/Glen Keane's Beast:



cartoon character skeleton: study of Bill Waterson's Hobbes:

head studies - some of these are from my head and some are from movies/photos and studies of other artists' work, like Sergio Toppi, Al Dorne, Leyendecker and Stevie Lewis.

life drawing



Kirby studies

bunch 'o stuff.

100 figures assignment

This past weekend was DB Dowd's famous 100 figures assignment. Basically we had one weekend to produce 100 figure drawings, at least 11" x 14". It was crazy! Some of my buddies and I were in the studio until 6 am, but we got the drawings done. It was a really useful assignment in learning a bit about your work and finding some surprises in it. I thought I'd post some of the ones I liked out of the 100.

NOTE: some of these but not all of them are from photo reference. There's a great website called characterdesigns.com that has a lot of models to browse through. Definitely worth it for figure practice! I also used some refs from the blog mentioned in the below post. I thought it would be useful to see what I could make up from my head versus what I drew from reference or from life.

FAST figure drawing with George Pratt

Figure drawing with George Pratt is probably one of the most fun and challenging experiences - you do lots of 5 second gestures and exercises like drawing the right side of the figure with your right hand and the left side with your left hand at the same time with 2 different colors ("falling water" exercise - do it)! This man knows his stuff, and I had a lot of fun in the sessions.

some figure drawings

here at the academy we have had figure drawing twice a week, and i thought I'd start posting some of my drawings from the sessions...