The Artistic Biker

Month: February 2009

  • Emergency Still Life

    I have been walking the walls all day today.  Leaving the house would mean leaving my bride home alone with a cranky, croupy Girl2.  We do a pretty good job as long as we can tag team.  The Bride doesn’t lose patience with the kiddo (much), but she sure can with me!  So, trapped in a house with a sick baby, we caught up on all of the recorded TV shows we have been saving for a rainy day.  Around 2 we decided to sleep the rest of a cloudy afternoon off.

    A perfect day.

    While the wife had the pumpkin in the bath, I whipped up an emergency still life for Thing-a-Day.  Then I turned around and did my take on the dishwasher for tonight’s EDM: Draw an appliance.

    EDM
    EDM 28: Draw an appliance

  • Stegasaurs in The Great Valley

    I got absolutely nothing that I planned to do this weekend accomplished.  I know it’s just Saturday and there’s still tomorrow, but really I had big plans.  Maybe next weekend.  Anyway, I spent all day at work moving stuff around the pipe yard.  We have important visitors coming this week so we are doing some extra ORGANIZING (cleaning).  When I’m tired or rushed, I try to draw fantasy creatures or dinosaurs.  I find it very relaxing just to color them in with my pencils.  Also, tonight’s EDM challenge is to draw a book.  I just happen to have one of those handy.

  • Free Drawing

    Tonight, the challenge was to draw anything I wanted… or a vegetable.  While I was trying to decide what I wanted to draw that was not a vegetable, a woman came on TV that I thought had interesting folds of flesh in her face.  She was heavy, but still pretty.  This looks nothing like her.  She was only on screen for 30-45 seconds.

    For the last week or so, I have been paying more attention to the folds of skin on overweight people.  I believe that I will focus my figure drawing on heavier people so that I can get better at the tonal values on their skin.

    I really want to do a BBW Pin-up series or Lane Bryant lingerie models.  Real women have curves!

    Thing-a-day was along those same lines.

    EDM
    EDM 26: Draw anything you like… or a vegetable

  • Drinking Glass

    Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a drinking glass.  I purposely avoid drawing metal and glass, so this was particularly intimidating for me.

    Once I drew it, though, I had to do it again in pen and watercolor.  I really like this medium better.  One of the biggest reasons I took on the EDM challenge was to improve my basic drawing skills.  By following the list, it forces me to push my bounderies, to leave my comfort zone.  I feel like I’m improving and that gives me more confidence to make bolder lines and color choices.  I dig that.

    Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America.  There were not many in attendence as the meeting had been moved due to inclement weather.  They were making a poster to represent their chapter at the national convention.  The poster was to be made up of 2″x3″ cards with different drawings on them.  The theme was “Seasons”.  I chose Spring.

    EDM
    EDM 25: Draw a drinking glass

  • Concrete Grapes and Thing-a-day 4

    concrete grapesI once read an article lamenting the fact that it was hard to make a black and white rose look soft and not look like concrete.  Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a piece of fruit.  How do you make graphite fruit not look like concrete?

    We had a lot of fun tonight with the thing-a-day!  We broke out the clay and Girl2 and I played for an hour while my beautiful young bride took pictures.  All of the best focused pictures are up in the thing-a-day gallery.

    Here is a parting shot of the dynoramic result.

    EDM
    EDM 24: Draw a piece of fruit