same process as last time.

This is how I sketch ideas, rough and raggidy without much care to be honest.  I want to work on something based on primitive culture.  I tilted the camera a little bit as to not get my hand in the way, so that's why it might look a bit strange.

I haven't really posted anything in almost a year, I suppose I hit a bit of a slump, and while I have been sketching, I haven't really done anything finished.  I enjoy doing these exercises to get me warmed up, I like to watch dancing videos from time to time, and these were done from a ballet video on youtube, I basically play and pause, with the help of an online stopwatch, I set it from maybe 30 seconds to 2 minutes, on the interval timer, set it on repeat and turn on the alarm, and just play and then pause for a new pose, every time the alarm goes off, its great fun.  I can't afford life drawing classes these days.

Charcoal, quick hand studies.  I have pages and pages of these, but I don't want spam them, so here's a couple, there on A3 but the scanner is A4 so I can't get the whole page in.

A couple of pages from my A4 watercolour sketchpad.  After feeling so drained and burnt out after finishing my degree in animation, I disliked the prospect of working too large, and digitally, and after coming out of hospital (stomach problems) I needed to find a spark again to want to draw again, so I decided to start working very small, and seeing as watercolour isn't really that messy, it seemed like the right choice.  So from time to time, I sit in my back garden, in my house, or sometimes out n about looking at colour.  There not amazing or anything I know, but practice is practice, I'm pretty new to watercolour but I enjoy doing them, some worked out OK, others are a bit of a mess, but its better not be too tentative I guess, these are really just to keep me in tune with colour, to see which pockets of colours work together.  I was a weary about showing these, but I think it will make me want to show progression.  I would maybe spend around 2 - 5 minutes on these.

10 minute life drawings done a few months back.

Forgot to post this.  It is a Victorian background design done way back in 2008, I still like it though, I feel it was my first real step forward technically as an artist, I worked very hard to come to a conclusion I was happy with.