Dr Sketchy's Life Drawing, Bristol

Just discovered Bristol finally has Dr Sketchy's Life Drawing events. It's a great mix of burlesque entertainment and drawing - usually in a bar so there's beer too. I first heard about these a few years back and thought they sounded a lot of fun - now I know they are. My first time life drawing in 2 years or so - I was pretty rusty but I like the last sketch. Looking forward to the next one.

First up was the Diva...

The next model was Dis Charge - strikingly tall and with great make up. We were treated to a song part way through too!

The final model of the session was Daphne Dangerpants. She had a great costume which I'd love to have had more time to sketch.

Daphne minus the costume…

Really pleased with this last drawing - I like the lost edges on the arm in the shade and the tattoo.

Life Drawings and others.

To balance out all the cars here's a few drawings of people. FIrst one is of Cathy. I did it on the iPad in Sketchbook Pro and then added some grunge with Photoforge...

This one of Finn was done the same way...

... and here's some done with real pencils and pens. I think the pencil ones were about 10 mins and the marker about 5...

More life drawing on the iPad

I've been experimenting with using the iPad for the quick 1.5min sketches we do at the beginning of our life drawing class. These are done with the Adobe Ideas app...

Life Drawing

Recently we started some lunchtime life drawing session at work. These were done with the zen brush app on iPad (using a 1 pixel brush). I like the way the pen bleeds when i stop moving the stylus - it has a bit of a felt marker feel. First ones are 90 seconds and the last one is 10 minutes - and I added some colour with art rage later...