Kittys Drawings

Hi!

Yep – for the first time THIS YEAR I have some drawings for you……

My first Drawing Salon class was last night and it was awesome I’m clearly a bit rusty but Angie taught us some cool techniques, the best one being how to ensure you don’t run out of room for your drawing on the page. Draw the feet in after you’ve positioned the head and torso – Der!!! It makes so much sense.

The proportions are so much easier to work out after that.

These two figures are a result of learning to draw a pose with weight evenly distributed and then without. Balance is crucial otherwise the figure looks like it will tip over.

I’ve still got a lot to learn about cleaning my lines up and not overworking it. Legs can be tricky too! Get them wrong and it’s so so bad – but if you get it right, it can make your illustration. Keep working ’til you have the skill to express form like Gianfranco Ferrè…Ha!!

Next week we’re learning faces!

On sewing news – still editing pics…I’ve been busy! Blog post for the amazing green polka dot dress coming soon.
Also – how cold is Melbourne right now? Brrr!! It’s been raining for the past two days and barely made it above 12C – my kinda weather!!

Till soon…

Hiiii!

Not too much to say today. Been busy this week so not much time to draw. Spending too much time reading. Reading my crazy geeky physics book titled The Fabric of the Cosmos by physicist Brian Greene. Yep, I’m that geeky. Well, not geeky enough to know all the equations, but I like reading about quantum uncertainty and superstrings (though I’m not up to that part yet). Hehehehe

Onto the drawings…Just some more fashion-y things. Nothing spectacular.

Not sure I’m making a lot of progress but I’ll keep at it huh. Life drawing starts again Monday so I’m looking forward to that. Apparently we get a male model this time. Teehee.
Bya!

Heeeeya!

ConceptArt buddy Ed lent me some time ago, a book on fashion illustration. It’s an absolutely MASSIVE book with heaps of wicked tips and a really good resource. I only had the chance to start going through it yesterday (slackie) but I can already see the benefit it can have on my drawing. It’s a very technical book going into detail about composition, colour, proportion etc and stressing the importance of practice, practice practice!

So these are the first few sketches I have done from it. Nothing groundbreaking – they are rough copies of sketches in the book but I really need to get that croquis down. I realise I am very very terrible at drawing the hips/pelvis. Always had iss-ues with it.

See…..iss-ues

And some clothes – another tough area. Folds and what-not. Yipes!

So there you have it. I’ll get back to it then!
Ciao!