samantha learns to draw

• 2012-05-30

  

  From Long Pose tonight.  I’m not particularly happy with this, but not particularly unhappy either.  It’s just kind of meh.  Doug would complain that I failed to clearly define areas of light and dark.  He would be right.

  I don’t think she has eyebrows.

• 2012-05-29

  

  30 second poses on Pixelovely.  I’m getting sick of looking at my own drawings.  The lines I make are starting to annoy me.  It’s like a song that’s overplayed on the radio.

• 2012-05-26

  More gesture drawings. Matt Jones, on whom I have a gigantic hero-crush, taught the class this time.  He drew the bottom set of pictures on one of my papers as an example.  I think will frame it.  Or maybe sleep with it under my pillow.

• 2012-05-25

  

  scottlava:

  “I don’t see how that’s a party.”

  WATCH the making of for this showdown right HERE!

  Source: scottlava

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  Anonymous asked: Hi Sam, I heard you like to eat and dance. Is this true? I'm kind of drunk right now. -Ashi

  Who is this Ashi and how do you know so much about me.  And why are you only KIND of drunk.

• 2012-05-23

  

  I took my first gesture drawing class in over a year.  It was tough getting back into it, but I think my approach is better this time.  I had let my pride prevent me from improving before—I knew that getting into a new way of drawing meant being bad again, and I didn’t want that.  So, I just stuck to what I was familiar with.  I made pretty pictures, but I never got any better.  This time around, I realize I have to face the shame of producing bad drawings before I can take my art to where it needs to go.  As Alex told me today, “The important thing is to be expressive; the anatomy will catch up later.”  (Well, something to that effect, anyway.)

  Clearly, the anatomy has not caught up yet, but I have faith that it will get there.  You will have to bear with these mediocre (but more expressive!) drawings in the meantime.

• 2012-05-16

  

  Finally went back to the Long Pose class.  Colored pencil, miserable attempt.  Baby steps.

• 2012-05-09

  

  Sketchy sketch

• 2012-05-08

  

  Doodley doodle doo.

• 2012-05-05

  

  I’m tired and it’s late so here’s a self portrait.  In case you were curious about what I look like (at least in my mind’s eye).