Drawing at the Beach

Went to the beach in Alameda a couple weeks ago and did some sketches. That monster dude was not at the beach unfortunately...but everyone else was.

Marina Sketchcrawl

This past Saturday was jam packed full of drawing. It started at 11 with a Sketchcrawl in the Marina. (I stayed mostly in and around Ghirardelli Square.) It was a blast and I ended up with some sketches I liked. After that, Brittney and I headed over to Oakland around 7 pm to do caricatures for a fundraiser for the East Bay Humane Society. It was a singles mixer for animal lovers and there were tons of dogs there, which made it extra interesting. Our little corner turned out to be pretty popular, and left us drawing for four hours straight! (Probably because they were free...) Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so no pics from the event. In the meantime, enjoy these sketches from the crawl:

Figure Drawing

Here's a few from last week's figure drawing session at UC Berkeley.

Tilden Botanical Garden

Here's a quick watercolor from the botanical garden at Tilden Park in Berkeley. Also, I just got back from WonderCon and it was amazing! (Got to be in the same room with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Chris Carter!!!) Then I went to the Early Bird Painters show and met Mike Dutton and Dice Tsutsumi. Beautiful work from everyone in that show. Oscars tomorrow - let's see if Ratatouille can go five for five. Also, I saw a slew of clips from WALL-E at WonderCon and let's just say it looks like the best Pixar film ever. (But I say that every time a new one comes out...)

Some figure drawing

I got myself a TabletPC last week. I'm still getting used to it, but here are a few sketches from Saturday's figure drawing session. These were done in ArtRage.

Sketchcrawl!

I was finally able to attend a Sketchcrawl out here in San Francisco. I had a blast. Not only did I get to draw all day, I got to meet a ton of cool new people. And then there were a whole bunch of "Oh wait...I read your blog!" moments. Enjoy these pics from the Chinatown:

Brittney and Dave sketching...photoshop color.

There was a lot of gambling going on!

That is Daniela Strijleva up there.

Those ladies noticed I was drawing them and then they got shifty.

That's the most drawings I've done in a long time. There's still a slew of paintings from Christmas that I've been meaning to post.

Just found this on the forums...thanks for posting this!! (From left to right: Me, Dave, Brittney, Enrico Casarosa!)

FIgure Drawing

Trying to get back into the figure drawing groove. I've been reading Mike Mattesi's "Force" book on figure drawing for animators. So far it's pretty awesome. These drawings were done at the Saturday morning life drawing group at UC Berkeley. It's a great group of very talented people all working in a variety of styles and mediums. If you are in the area you should check it out.

Crazy Rollerskaters

So I'm wandering around Golden Gate Park today with my newfound friend Michelle, and we hear some loud music and see people dancing. Turns out they weren't dancing, they were rollerskating! There was a whole bunch of em. Apparently Sunday is "no car day" in the park and they can take over the road and blast their music and go at it. Some of them were pretty good too. ALL of them were characters. (Especially fuzzy boots-skates guy and big hair man.)