30 Day Drawing Challenge: Day 007 - Favorite Movie

Recollect

I tried to paint Buckethead in gouache on the page with Reggie and Daft Punk but it didn't turn out quite how I wanted. I think I might want to do another layer over it but I may not get the chance realistically...

I did an ink and marker piece of the singer/guitarist of Gogol Bordello...gypsy...then Borat is hiding on the bottom of the next page.

I did some Michael Hampton studies and a few sketches and I have been coloring those for fun.

During Week 2, I went down to the Lifedrawing Workshop but I felt totally sick so I only had the time/strength to fill one page.

The next day I tried to draw some more during a class, but my head was still bothering me so it felt unusual.

I watched a cool video at theartcenter.blogspot and it inspired me to do some made up ink/marker stuff. I attempted a master copy of Sargent's Rosina in oils. That was weird...I learned a lot though.

Then there are some Bridgman studies, Vilppu studies, lots of sketches and a little marker mess based off of the Mars Volta poster/album cover.>

Superu

Yo here is some dope shit. I just felt like painting whatever last night so I picked up my Afro Samurai dvd sitting right there and started mixing. After that I went digging into my References folder where I just save random images I like or plan to paint someday and I decided to use a promo desktop background for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World as my reference. It is the weird purplish haired girl. The character's name is Ramona Flowers. In the movie I think she is played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead. I like the way it turned out but I did NOT capture that hair color...you're going to have to find the original yourself. After that I used another random shot of just some chick's legs. Then I googled observations and Paul Cezanne's piece with the skull was one of the first to come up, so I decided to try to copy those strokes/colors since my homie Rick recommended such a task as a good exercise. For the big finale, you get a pepper from a photo and a drunken marker sketch of our family friend Garen haha. Oh yeah, I have also been posting a couple of guitar videos on youtube if you give a fuck maybe you could try and find me.

KILL BILL STUDY EXHIBIT B

A study of CHAPTER 3: THE ORIGIN OF O-REN after Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

KILL BILL STUDY EXHIBIT A

I did this over the break and I wasn't sure how I should try to export it from Flash to get it online but I figured it out. I was talking to Jon Kaplan about animating one of my stories and he brought up a certain scene from Quentin Tarantino's first Kill Bill. Just popped in the movie and was sketching while it was playing then I started to pause and draw a couple of shots but I didn't want to sit on the same frame for too long so I tried to keep it pretty fast...I was doing a lot of experimenting with layers and quick ways to color. I have another more polished study I will post later.

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Frederich Nietzsche

Here are my drawings from the Week 10 Life Drawing Workshop. I mentioned something to Arnel about never using conte and Kevin let me try some of his out for a bit. He called it creamy and it is man it's just soft and smooth. I need to get some more materials again haha. So I also posted the four figure project again after trying to touch up some parts. Still having trouble man, damn...But can you believe that I still have other art I need to post? Jeez, some of it will be lost in "the abyss" hence the Nietzsche quote. "Whatever dude! So cliche!" Yup. Fuck off.

*Edit: I posted another pic of The Warriors piece because I tried to make some small changes and I taped some colored paper behind their vests and skin to see how it would show through the thin, marker paper. It is super subtle but whatever, experiments are good. It was also pretty well received during the final critique. It wasn't the best, and I think I could do better if I started the same project over, but why do that? I will just continue on with the lessons the "battle" has taught me.

Traditional Stylings Boi!

Drawing & Anatomy Week 10 - practice for the final: placing four poses in perspective as a new composition, after some warm-ups of course. I also posted some concept sketches for the actual final project. After creating a pile of good reference films, I decided to go with a shot from The Warriors but then on Saturday I got tons of good advice from Kevin I tried to apply which I will post later. I think it still needs work but sometimes you just have to start over to really take it to the next level when you're blending and erasing because the paper just gets worn with marks and turns to shit but I don't know if I have the time for that right now.