Drawing – Week 3

This was one of those days…I was tired after work, I didn’t feel like going to class, but I went anyway – the prospect of working with ink was quite exciting. The teacher brought some “toys” to class – for example, some brushes made by her out of bamboo skewers and pieces of thick wiry string, and bits of wooden clothes pegs. Basically we dipped whatever we could find in ink and let loose. Got some fun stuff done:

Some details:

This last one was done by rubbing a piece of wax on the paper first (roughly in the shape of a spiderweb), then by inking the area using diluted black ink:

Then we drew a goat skull that was brought in by the teacher. I used a few different methods:

My favourite one is this one:

Details:

I was pretty tired by this point, and so I was not overly keen when asked to draw a horse (we were copying a drawing by Toulouse Lautrec, but changing the composition). I won’t even link it, it was really appalling…what can I say, I don’t find horses that interesting to draw, so I’ve never tried!

Here’s a couple of ink details with tweaked colours instead, since the colours of the photos in this post are all over the place anyway (I used different cameras and light sources):

Next time – portraits!

Daffodil, star baby, or deformed blob?

So, I’ve been working on a logo for a client for a while now. It’s pretty much don now, so here are piccies. It’s not that complicated, the client wanted something child-like.

B/w logo. Wooo, description!

Combo b/w and colour logo.

Full-colour version.

Of robots and apples

I started working on this logo a while ago…originally it had chicken legs and feet as well.At first I scanned in a drawing and redid it in Photoshop.

Then I realised that the apple wasn’t very apple-y, so I started to play around with paths until I got a shape I was happy with, and redid the shading using circular gradient fill.

I thought I was done, but then the fact that the antenna and the bolt were kind of dodgy started to bug me, so I redid them as well, using paths, and then I redid the shading (using linear gradient fill).

I’m pretty happy with the end product. It’s the first image I ever make in Photoshop that’s not a product of random chance, playing around or dodgying it up when I don’t know how to do something – the first thing I make that’s completely reproducible, that I could practically write a tutorial for. So it might not look that flashy, but I’m pretty proud of this little robotapple.After the election it might lose the text (brownie points if you get the reference).