What's up, Doc?

From Mitch Caster's Monday night drawing class at ASLD. I really need to draw more frequently, it makes me happy.

More in oil based clay

Some very low quality photos (my camera broke) of a bust I did at the Art Students League. I took a new class there, taught by Valentin Okorokov. It was seriously a lot of fun and I learned sooooo much! The method taught was a sort of simplified version of Edouard Lanteri's method (a common classic method of sculpture), and focused on the planes of the face and neck.

A Little Drawing

More from Tuesday night life drawing:

The pose was about an hour long. 18" x 24" charcoal on charcoal paper.

I saw this at the North Bennington Halloween Parade:

The skeleton even pedaled along with the guy up front :-D Pretty sweet.

Uuh... has anyone seen Em?

I found a life drawing session in Bennington, and came home with this:

Eyeball, tri-ball

After seeing two blog posts in two days, I had the sudden urge to immediately go make some new eyeballs.

And you know what? I think eyeballs aren't so scary after all! Kinda fun, really. Especially in sets of 3.

The one-eyed cherub

Some works in progress before I head to bed:

This first one has been pulled apart and restarted about three times already, I have been measuring off the reference (illustration shown in the background of the photo) and I probably should be doubling the size. Just looking at this picture now makes all the obvious structural changes stand out to me like a sore thumb (another very good reason to post often, it forces me to take a more critical look at what I'm doing).

And this, well, I'm putting this one up cause I started it sometime in June, and wanted to give myself a little bit of motivation to finish it up. It is life size, which makes me really excited to see how it will turn out (I'm using a live model, so comparing it against the real thing should be fun).

Hand, hand, fingers, thumb