Caricature Jam - Jimi Hendrix

So, here is an illustration that started as a sketch.
We started with a few friends a weekly jam. There will be a different subject each week (hopefully).

This one was made during a lot of hours. I experimented a lot trying to find a proper way to do things, so I ended with something like this. The second image is the starting sketch.
Linework done with Illustrator, the rest were done in Photoshop. I also used some of these awesome people's brushes: B-a-s-h , circle--of--fire , LMSD , and a few others, that unfortunately, I don't remember where I downloaded them from.

See what my other two friends did: Humphrey and Natalia (hopefully, she will upload her attempt soon)

Next jam: Angelina Jolie. I hope I'll have it ready by Sunday.

Sketches made in UK

I'm very sorry for the quality of the scans.

The Drawing Academy - The End

God damn, it's hard when something so nice like this ends...Today we had an exposition of drawings, selected by our teacher.

The first days at the Drawing Academy seem so far away now... It was a beautiful trip! I learned a lot of useful things, and I got to know some awesome people!
The level of the class was amazingly high, and this was sometimes intimidating, but motivating also.
I still feel that I have a lot to learn, and I wish I could take more time with classical drawing.

Anyway, here are photos from my drawings. I kept a bit of myself in the photos, so that you can make a comparison of the size of the drawings. Almost all of the long studies, and a lot of the sketches were similar size. For a better quality of the drawings you can check my previous posts here.

Holland & friends

Today I returned from a trip to Holland, to a Van Gogh museum, which is called Kroller-muller museum. It was awesome!

On the bus I did a few quick portraits, so here they are:

Week 21 - Final week of drawing

Yes, I'm really sad to say, but this was the final week of drawing, as next week we're going to a short trip to Holland to a Van Gogh museum, and on Friday we're going to have an exhibition, so there will be a lot of preparation going on.

I also have a portrait long study, which I didn't scan properly, and I will add later. The first drawing here is the final body long study that I do at The Drawing Academy, which I cannot claim entirely mine, because I got a lot of help from my teacher. I think it took around 9 hours to finish.
The second is a 3-hour unfinished study . The next are 5 to 10 mins croquis, and the last one is an unfinished study also.


I started a digital self-portrait painting as a vampire. I'm mentioning this so that I will be more motivated to finish it eventually!

Note for the blog: I have setup the comments so that EVERYONE can comment, not only those who have a gmail account. So, please, feel free to comment, or just say hi :) I would be happy!

Week 20 - Modeling

This week was awesome! It involved modeling with wire and clay, and i got a completely different, refreshed perspective about drawing!

I really enjoyed clay modeling. We never had the time to refine things, because the most we had was 40 mins, which is very short time for clay modeling, and you can only roughly depict things. I took some pics from some of the things i did this week. The most recent are the first ones:

Week 19

Three more weeks to go for the end of the semester, and I don't like it...

This week we continued with the portait and the full body study, but we haven't finished yet. So, here are three pastel sketches. Pastel is a great tool, by the way! I can't remember how long we spent on each one, though:

Week 18

Not much to show from this week. There is a long full body study and a portrait in progress, so i will show them after i'm finished with them.

Here is a long study that is close to finished for my taste, and a decent croquis:

The Animation Workshop - Bachelor in Character Animation

My application in the Bachelor in Character Animation, at the Animation Workshop was approved!!!
I'm very excited and can't wait to start animating like the old Masters did, the flipbook way!

Big thumbs up to my classical drawing teacher Artem, who helped me develop my drawing skills, as well as Edda, for helping me a lot with my portfolio, especially the acting part!

Now and until the end of the semester here at The Drawing Academy i'll focus on taking the most out of it, and I hope that I can steal time in the future to train more in classical drawing, because it's so interesting!

TDA - Week 17 - Glenn Vilppu Masterclass

It has been an awesome week! Glenn Vilppu is a true Master!! It took me a while to realize that I actually had him as a teacher and that it was me that he was referring to, some times!!

The course was about starting from scratch with the gesture and building the figure on top, first with simple volumes and then gradually more complex. He also explained almost about the whole body anatomy, from the head to the feet.

Things are posted with chronological order, from bottom to top, from Monday to Friday. Grab a cup of cofee, relax, and have fun (I hope!) with this week's stuff!!