Downton Abbey Doodles

What? You've never heard of Downtown Downton Abbey!? Go watch it right now!!! I recently became addicted to this show and while I was watching the series for like the third time I made some character sketches in my sketchbook. And I am not sure why Mrs. Hughes head turned out so much bigger than the others! : P

Portraits and Pen and Ink

Here is some more work from my Figure Drawing class.  Last week we were focusing on the face and made a couple of portraits of the model, which was a good exercise because I haven't drawn faces (or at least not in great detail) for a long time!!!

We were then assigned to make a self-portrait of ourselves using dramatic lighting and wearing a hat, scarf, or just something different than what we normally wear, so here is me wearing a big floppy hat, looking silly but stylish (yeah you know you want this hat!)

And finally we began to work with ink this week which is fun yet frustrating, because it's a new material that I haven't worked with much and so I am super slow at getting things down on paper! 

More to come later...

IF: Heights (sort of...)

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Heights", I began working on this illustration last week when I was trying to find something to take out my midterm stress on, so really I wasn't thinking about the topic. But I suppose the bird perched atop the the temple works with the theme.

More Figure Drawing!!!

Yay! I'm updating more frequently! I decided to post some more life drawings because during the last couple of weeks I actually managed to bust out some pretty good drawings (well at least I think they're pretty good :) if nothing else they're an improvement from where I started. (Also sorry for the image quality)

Here's a couple of 2 minute gesture drawings:

And here's some longer work (around 35 minutes or so)

Were studying anatomy and the skeletal structure right now so here's a labeled diagram of a skeleton (the proportion is slightly off)

And here is what your insides would look like if they were on your outsides! : P