ChickensTennisOstrichesAndBanjo
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 06-05-2012 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: NATE CREEKMORE, TENNIS, CHRIS SANDERS, ART, SKETCHBOOK, OSTRICH, BANJO, CHICKENS
For this week, more from my sketchbooks...
This drawing, done in pencil with ink and ink wash, features (yet again) an ostrich and a satyr. Mostly, this one was done with a focus on the chickens. I'm working on a rather large project about chickens but I won't be able to say much more about that for a while. In the meantime, my sketchbooks are seeing more and more poultry...
Here's a quick sketch of a hipster playing a banjo. I once had a roommate who played the banjo. He looks nothing like this guy.
Here's a Chris Sanders (the guy behind the look of Lilo and Stitch, the most unique Disney film I've ever seen) inspired ink drawing from one of my older sketchbooks. I added watercolor to it last week.
Ink on pastel paper (with a touch of chalk). A woman plays tennis with an 6-armed, four legged ox-like catfish monster using frying pans and eggs.
I wonder, from time to time, what a psychiatrist would make of my sketchbooks...
models
Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 29-01-2012 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0Tags: NATE CREEKMORE, PENCIL, SKETCH, MODELS, SKETCHBOOK
Opportunities for legitimate life drawing are few these days so I stay sharp by sketching people and models from magazines.
This interesting looking model has appeared several times in The New Yorker:
Everything I do tends towards caricature, even my "serious" drawings. I exaggerate features any time I draw or sketch.
This next woman came out of one of those magazines that are made up entirely of avant garde advertisements. I think it was probably Vogue. My youngest sister, who is also an artist (http://www.bluecanvas.com/stacree) is generous with her used reference material and shares her old magazines with me.
I don't like to do a lot of smearing when I draw so I adopt inking techniques (hatching, cross hatching) even when I use pencil.