More from my charcoal drawing class. These are all figure studies from live models, and therefore are nude. All NSFW images are under the cut.

>>Foxy Mulder – This is a charcoal portrait of Fox Mulder from one of my favorite TV shows, The X-Files.

All images under the cut are nude figure studies and may be NSFW.

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As part of my catching up, I’ve got here all of the rest of the still lives and statue studies that I did in my Chiaroscuro charcoal drawing class.

>>Egg On Your Face – This was actually one of my first drawings I did, and is in graphite. We had to draw an egg still life. Mine needs more darks, to be sure.

>>Ladies’ Night Out – This was a still life that was supposed to have a theme, so I chose some items a lady might take with her on her way out for the evening.

>>Another Fabric Study – This was another fabric study done with a very thick piece of fabric. It needs more midtones, however.

>>Still Life with Bottle – Another still life meant to study dark glass.

>>Mastercopy of Statue Drawing – A drawing of a statue that I had to copy directly. I actually did this same assignment in undergrad. I really wish that I had my old version so that I could compare them.

>>Head Statue Study – A study of a plaster head.

More below the cut. Slight NSFW warning for some nude plaster statue drawings.

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I’m finally playing catchup with the rest of the work that I did last semester for the Academy of Art University. Below are the images that I’ve done for a particular class called “Drawing From the Imagination” and mostly focused on perspective and drawing humans from various angles.

>>Zombies Attack – This was my final illustration for the class, based on a short passage that we had to adhere to. It’s an image of two young kids entering a morgue, and the girl’s amulet begins to glow. Unspecified by the text, the amulet may be what causes the corpses to come back as zombies. It’s done from a two-point perspective with a Dutch Angle added to create drama. It was fully drawn and painted in Photoshop. There’s a lot of things I would like to fix about it, including a few pieces of the image that look unfinished and were caused by the Dutch Angle.

>>Less Mew Mew, More Pew Pew – This was an assignment where I had to design and draw two different robots; one in two point vertical and one in three point perspective. I really enjoy it. It’s done in inks.

>>Schoolgirl Brawl – This assignment involved drawing two figures in combat in several stages. The first was drawing the figures nude, then clothed, and then adding the background. Here is the final image in pencil.

>>No Reflection – This assignment was based on a passage of text that described a teenage boy picking up his prom date, but he isn’t visible in her mirror. It is insinuated that he may be a vampire because of it. This image is done in inks.

More drawings and conceptual sketches after the cut. There are some images that may be considered NSFW because of some nudity.

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>>”5:15″ – Inks and Prismacolor Markers on Bristol

Prentice Will be Cleanin’
To “California Dreamin” by The Mamas & The Papas

All the cheese is brown,
Sheppard’s pie turned grey.
I’ll go for a walk,
Later on today.

Don’t be misinformed.
I will come save the day.
Prentice will be cleanin’,
at five fifteen, Friday!

So, please stop by the fridge,
You’ll pass along the way.
Please, grab your cream cheese and peas,
and your berry puree.

You know your pasta will grow mold,
and will be thrown away.
Prentice will be cleanin’,
at five fifteen, Friday!

Your Chinese turned brown,
and Pad Thai is grey.
I’ll go for a walk,
Later on today.

Don’t say I didn’t tell you!
Before you leave today,
Prentice will be cleanin’,
at five fifteen, Friday!

One of my best friends and fellow bloggers, Prentice Osborne has this fun thing she does where she writes what she calls a “Fridge Poem” every Friday for her office. She has to clean out the fridge at 5:15, and instead of writing a boring email to remind her coworkers to pick up their leftovers, she makes it fun by writing poems and stories! I love to chip in and do an illustration for them, but usually they’re just cute little sketches. This week, however, I went all out. So here is the illustration and the accompanying poem in their full glory!

I am chugging out so much work that I’m having issues posting it all. So here’s a huge dump of more characterized figure drawings and they are most likely out of order. The worst part is that I have at least twice this much that I haven’t even photographed yet.

It’s interesting to keep pushing this style of drawing. I’m definitely working outside of my box, and I think my characterization is getting marginally better with practice. More tomorrow.