Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
10 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
More figure practice today, with model Josh, poses ranging from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. This was the best of them today, not surprisingly one of the 20-minute poses. I had time to do some shading, check proportions more fully and redraw limbs when...
9 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
A week or so ago, a kind person reader advised me to try out charcoal, so I placed an order and have been eagerly waiting for the chance. Yesterday my charcoals arrived, and today I got to try them out. Today's post is my first every charcoal drawing...
7 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Continued practice with figure drawing, and in a few cases real progress. In a few others, maybe not so much progress. It was a good practice! Here are my best efforts from today's workshop: Pinto, 15-minute poses: I was able to capture enough shape...
4 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
When I showed her my platypus drawing, my cousin asked me to try drawing her daughter's pet hedgehog, Hanna. Meet Hanna: I've posted lots of timed figure sketches lately, and there's likely to be lots more, so I am trying to draw some cuter stuff in...
3 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
I participated today in a figure drawing workshop hosted by a third group, The Male Form, with talented and creative model Lalo. We drew a few 5-minute warm-up sketches, then several longer poses. Here's one of the 15-minute poses that I think came o...
28 Feb 2021 1 minute read 3 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today I took the Redrawing Masculinity monthly figure drawing workshop again. They had a guest model, which is always fun, and since there were three models rather than the usual two, there were more short poses than usual. This meant I got a lot mor...
25 Feb 2021 1 minute read 9 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today I saw a picture of someone swimming, and the painter had rendered the underwater portions of the figure in a slightly different color than the portions above the water. I thought "I bet I can do that" so today I challenged myself to try it out,...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
I will be playing a modified game of the Amber Diceless RPG, and we got extra points to use in character generation if we were willing to make a character portrait, our own family trump, for those of you who remember your Zelazny lore. I decided my c...
18 Feb 2021 1 minute read 6 comments DoctorPlatypus
It's been a while since I drew anything cute, and I think my friends are probably feeling oversaturated because of all the naughty sketches from the last little while. The platypus has always had a special significance for me, because when I was smal...
17 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today I went back to one of my timed sketches of Callum and made some improvements and revisions. Mostly I added shadow and definition where it belongs, smoothed out a few lines, etc. Here's the side-by-side results: I think in particular I could pr...
