On Monday, August 30th, we had a visit from the sexy Merav.
I have to admit it was a good night for me, because the dark-eyed ingenue thanked me for being so funny. I said her laughter was thanks enough. Which got a big laugh.
In other news, Björk has made some weird stuff, non?
mitch :: Aug.31.2010 :: Figure drawing, Merav :: No Comments »
Monday, August 16th, the solid and sinuous Sonia modeled. Sonia has a wonderfully sleek form, yet solid and curvy, and is a delight to draw. But I had trouble all night fixing her changeable face to paper. So there’s no true portrait among these drawings.
mitch :: Aug.17.2010 :: Figure drawing :: No Comments »
On August 9th (eight, nine, ten!) fair Signe came by the studio to model. I went with ball-point pens and thick mechanical pencils, which scan whispy, but yield nice sharp lines.
mitch :: Aug.10.2010 :: Figure drawing :: No Comments »
On August 2, lanky Otieno modeled for us at my drawing session. And as usual, I had difficulty accurately capturing his leonine dreadlocks.
mitch :: Aug.06.2010 :: Figure drawing :: No Comments »
Hey, it’s another spot illustration for my employer, for yet another travel bitch-fest.
mitch :: Aug.06.2010 :: Illustration for pay :: No Comments »
This Monday, July 26th, I finally returned to figure-drawing. And I wasn’t that rusty, well, the my drawings weren’t too horrible, anyway. The mysterious and sharp-featured Carla modeled, and I did some nice caricatures.
mitch :: Jul.27.2010 :: Figure drawing :: No Comments »
Recently, I was doodling Whitley Strieber grays for my employer. The intent was to illustrated a piece about the dearth of alien conspiracies in the contemporary zeitgeist.
mitch :: Jul.26.2010 :: Illustration for pay :: 1 Comment »
Today at work, I drew a bird. I don’t know what kind of bird it is, but it’s orange and blue.
There’s also a widescreen version if you have a Blu-Ray player.
mitch :: Jul.21.2010 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
This is a little off-topic, but I thought this logo came out pretty good, so I’m putting it here, a big part of this I appropriated from Rackham’s Rip Van Winkle illustration “Hanging the Stars“.
It’s a logo that I put together for an improv troupe that I’m in. We’re competing in Bay Area Theatresports‘ Cave Match series. We’re called “Over the Moon and Under the Beds” and we completely make-up fairy tales. Some of the stories we’ve come up with have been really exceptionally charming. Our first performance is on Sunday (July 25th) and we’re up against the delightful (and very polished) Fosse Posse.
mitch :: Jul.21.2010 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
For Sabrina Cecchini’s too-much-fun Hamsters and Hippos site, I respectfully submitted this masterwork.
Of course, I was doodling hippos all week. With various levels of success.
mitch :: Jun.28.2010 :: Uncategorized :: 1 Comment »
I was doing some geeky math, prompted by Shane Keaney’s graphic envisioning the entire population of the U.S. living at Brooklyn-level densities in a space the size of New Hamphire. This submitted to on-line thumbsucker magazine Good.
The actual conception of packing 310 million people into a Mega-Brooklyn, personally, sounds like a dystopian hell. And normally would be portrayed as such, but Keaney’s blurb seems to indicate he’s a typical sheltered Williamsberger, critical reasoning skills damaged by NPR.
Anyway, I thought the idea was pretty interesting, especially thinking about how sparsely populated America really is (especially considering the doom-mongering when 300 million population was passed a few years ago.) And I just wondered what the American Mega-City would look like at more civilized densities.
For example, at Omaha-level density, all of America could fit into Wyoming. Or we could all enjoy L.A. living in the same space that Indiana takes.
mitch :: Jun.25.2010 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
On May 24th, the world-famous Merav came to model. And I drew some pictures.
And then on May 30th, the final session before the hiatus, the superlative Isak took the stage.
mitch :: Jun.25.2010 :: Figure drawing, Merav :: No Comments »
So, on Monday, May 17th, the lovely and gracile Shawnrey took to the stage. Here’s some evidence of that. I was pretty off that night, didn’t really get much in the way of everything all-together working in one drawing, although there are nice bits to each of these.
mitch :: May.24.2010 :: Figure drawing :: No Comments »
May 10th, classic beauty Sierra modeled. And I had kind of an unflattering angle on that last drawing, but it’s still a pretty decent likeness.
mitch :: May.12.2010 :: Figure drawing :: No Comments »
