Christmas Sketching

Finally a bit of time again to draw!
ITSA coffee shop tied to a coffee mall on Henry Street:

The other side on the Luas line:

The Star Wars stall in the shopping mall:

My favorite bookshop on Parnell st Chapters:

Feeding deer in Phoenix park with Zenobie and Jodie:

Random people on a bar:

Jodie sleeping at the place we're flatsitting at in Dublin:

Walking sketch:

The Docklands...gotta return there for a proper afternoon of drawing, not good enough to do quickies of environments:

Sketchbook drawings

Biro sketches in an A5 sketchbook.

ANATOMY: PECS

Did some life drawing on Tuesday which showed me that I really have been getting stale these last couple of months. It motivated me to start drawing anatomy again during breaks at work, but I got confused about the shapes, so time to go back and re-visit some anatomy. Even if it's only 15 minutes of study, it's better than doing nothing :)

-Based on the book by Michael hampton.

Drumcondra : The Royal Canal

NATIONAL ARENA, TALLAGHT : ROLLER DERBY DRD v WaterFord Viqueens

We went to the National Basketball Arena yesterday to see The Dublin Roller Derby team face off against the Waterford Viqueens. We had to miss the main game of the DRD vs the Paris Rollergirls, but it was a great opportunity to do some sketching :)

You can take the 77A Dublin bus from Pearse street to the Castletymon shopping center, which stops right at a HUGE SIGN for the basketball Arena :)

All drawings were done using a  maker with the occasional blue pencil and 4B for shading. It might seem easy but to gesture draw moving people is quite the challenge :)

Afterwards we saw the All Blacks in a pub called 'James Toners' on Lower Baggot street, really awesome beergarden!

Quick Study

Quick study is better than no study, even if it's bad :P

1) study from image in 'realistic' proportions

2) trying to draw the muscles from memory...russtyyy!

Same model, just drawn in a more pushed style.

30 second posemaniacs