Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
27 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today I participated in a new lifedrawing Zoom, hosted by Thamesmead Life Drawing, with very talented model Andrea, who was Zooming from Italy. I wish I was in Italy. The session ended with a 20-minute portrait, which was downright luxurious. Here's...
25 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today was the monthly Redrawing Masculinity figure drawing zoom session. This month there was a guest model, several of the students opted to pose for 3-minute sketches, and the overall poses were shorter than usual, so the vast balance of the poses...
23 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today, I finished the beginner drawing course I started in 2018! Here is my certificate of completion lol: To be perfectly clear: There were 11 total hours of recorded lectures. I spent Quite A Lot More Time actually drawing, and I actually watched...
22 Apr 2021 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
Tonight I wanted to keep practicing hair, without sacrificing good placement of facial features, and I thought it would be a good idea to see if I could make something recognizable, too. I browsed some photos of celebrities with famously interesting...
15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Over the last few days I have been practicing to draw specific facial features and hair and stuff, but when I have tried to integrate them all into a face it has looked like silent-film-era horror stuff. I think the issue is that I was not working fr...
15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I have gone back to my Udemy drawing course this past week, and am reviewing the lessons about individual facial features and how they fit together, etc. So far I am having better luck with the individual features than with having they synergize into...
8 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I took a life-drawing workshop last evening, and the moderator really favored short poses, so we did five 2-minute poses, six 5-minute poses, a couple 10s and a couple 15s. During the 2-minute poses, I noticed how much further along I was getting the...
2 Apr 2021 1 minute read 8 comments DoctorPlatypus
I bought some pastels over the weekend, and last night I finally had the chance to try them out. I wasn't really sure how to do details like fur or bark with smoodgy pastel sticks - I am very much accustomed to drawing with pencils. So I didn't rea...
1 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
During today's The Male Figure figure drawing workshop with model Francesco, I tried to focus on the faces. They are still a touch uncanny, but I do feel like they are coming along nicely compared to the faces from previous sessions. I was late to t...
28 Mar 2021 4 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today was the monthly Re-Drawing Masculinity figure workshop, and I was afraid I would have been badly spoiled by all of the longer poses in the other workshops I have been taking. However, I was pleasantly surprised that returning to primarily very...
