Author Archives: Jim Mortensen

07/7/08

Face Doodlies

Here’s a small page of face doodlies from the last week or so. I kinda devolved from studying somethingoranother to making random faces. It’s always kinda fun underanalyzing.

Life drawing at the ‘Bux is going well, and Monday’s class is breaking some new ground for me in analysis of the body. The results are all experimental at this point, so no posty posty.

JTQ3 was on QVC on Saturday! A man who rides a Harley, has tattoo sleeves and draws Winnie the Pooh for a living… Classic.

06/28/08

SketchCrawl 19 – 6.21.08

Last week, I drove up to San Francisco for my third consecutive SF SketchCrawl. Even though I got into SF at 2AM, picked up my great (drunk) friend Terrence and his lovely (and drunk) wife Lesa, drove them back to Berkeley and passed out around 3:15… then woke up at 9 for the Crawl… I still had a great time.

    

Here’re my Crawl results. I think I’m going to switch from pen/Ink to pen/Watercolor. I keep hitting this weird mental barrier about 15 minutes into each drawing where I’m thinking “Man I’m adding too much detail all around. Maybe I should block out large swatches of black just to drive the composition stronger.” So what i’m going to try next time is starting out with large blocks of watercolor to get the general shape & feel, then go in and add detail with ink.

I will just have to remind myself to stay light.