old life drawings

life drawing homework (5 minute sketch)

life drawing (pre spring break)

life drawing (pre spring break)

life drawing pre spring break

life drawing pre spring break

life drawing (one of the firsts)

i feel like ive done way more, but i cant find them at the moment…

life drawing sketches

here is a sketch of the most recent class session

model name: pidgeon (awesome name)

pidgeon

pidgeon

pidgeon

homework:

self portrait

we’ve been concentrating on line contour drawings, starting the day off with blind contours to get our eyes in motion

and following up with modified contour drawing, moving our pencil in sync with our eye-movement, carefully getting down every line we see

we’ve also started measuring proportions and negative space

and were doing roll paper drawings next week ^_^

we havent started charcoal, lightning, shading, or anything else yet

which is what i thought would be the main basis of a life drawing class

but i am much more satisfied with doing these

ill upload some older ones later, we’ve only had three models so far

finally

im sitting in the library with nothing to do

so i thought i should finally get back to this thing

ive been indifferent about things lately but that doesnt matter as of now

life drawing is fucking great
the first model was a lady, not too old, low 30s maybe
i wasnt as shocked as i had thought i would be (first time i had seen a nude person close-up)
and we were doing blind contour drawings (how intimate is that?)
and after the session she came up to me and complimented me on how well i did at not looking at my paper while drawing her
i responded to her by saying i was just an obedient student..
shortly after i had realized she just gave me a compliment of staring at her while she was naked
only in art school ^_^

the second man we drew had an uncircumcised penis, that is all.

i will post drawings of them later today
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we also have a new president

but more importantly
we are a canon country now

because pete souza is the new white house photographer
who shoots with a canon 5d mk ii

and shot the presidential portrait with the canon 5d mk ii, the first presidential portrait shot with a digital camera

Presidential Portrait of Barack Obama

The settings: 1/125 exposure, F/10.0, 105mm focal length, ISO 100, no flash. You can download the full-sized photo here.

i will try to take more time and reflect on this situation, i feel a little different, a little warmer and slightly fuzzier..

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ive been extra busy this month with photos, i made a new years resolution of making double what i made last year (barely anything ^_^)

so the goal this year is $8k from photography

ive booked about $2k(ish) so far, i’m feeling good about this

*queue music: rick ross – hustlin*

although my camera just broke

the ae sensor is malfunctioning so the camera is permanently reading every photo as if there is no light

on Av mode

ie: daylight, iso 100, f/1.4

camera compensates for the “lack” of light and adjusts the shutter for 15″

i can only bypass this by shooting exclusively on M but it is a guess and check game when adjusting the shutter speed and aperture to get the correct exposure with the final image

and i cant shoot candids unless i have a good amount of time to adjust for the shot

ive been looking at upgrading to the 40d or the 5d mk i

sigh

here are some pics from a day before the camera ceased to function

greg, music department

alexx, art department

the fog

here is the only snapshot i got of the week of extreme fog we had in seattle

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here is a preview of the portraits ive been shooting this month

Nikola

Nikola

Denis

Denis

Anissa

Anissa

Zozan

Zozan

Troy

Troy

Eldina

Eldina

Eldina

Sara

Allison

Allison

Need portraits? Help a student! Hire me!

Offering prints as well

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Also had the opportunity to shoot Chief Sealth’s Winter Formal with Sabzi on the ones and twos

although i dont shoot “club/party” photos

i treated it as an event and tried to cover wide candids with some creative slow sync lightning

Winter Formal

Winter Formal

Winter Formal

Winter Formal

Winter Formal

Winter Formal

Winter Formal

I tried to get some fine art in there as well..i dont know if you could call a high school dance fine art, but i like this image

the only guy who wore a white tux

after the dance, which was held at woodland park zoo

i exited the building only to get myself lost

..in the zoo

..pitch black

i was so bugged out i was hopping fences like no other

after finding the exit, i see sabzi trapped inside the zoo with his van

we were probably going to be fed alive to the animals

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new project im working on

i havent been updating myself on the cluster assignments we’ve been having in foundations so ill back up a little after this

from line to mass

its almost done, dont know what it is? youll find out soon enough

constructed of 5 pieces of wire and 4 pieces of black thread

the second day of the semester, the first day of life drawing

im excited for this class, not for the naked people

ive never been taught how to draw formally so this will be a chance to get my shit straight

..my proportions

..my shading

..and all that other stuff

the teacher seems cool too, although i cannot conclude this yet

further investigation will be required to say that for sure

like if he passes me

if he doesnt..totally not cool

not only that, but this is the epitamy of art school, that is, when i think of art school

i think of drawing naked people, not just me (thats creepy)

but an entire classroom

all concentrating on getting the penis proportion right (just kidding)

how much pressure is on that person? i couldnt imagine, i mean you have to be really, really, really comfortable with yourself to do that

i cant even do it with my clothes on

but hey, atleast i know that much about the person

and ill get to make many more notions about that person as i deconstruct them

the scars, the tattoos, the shaven areas..oh yeah

all chapters of that persons life, a biography taking place in a sketch

an autobiography of the sketcher

thats what we went through today in his lecture, really philosophical dude..thats what i think makes him seem cool to me right now

im looking forward to it

life drawing studio

roman taking a pic

the naked person poses here

anyways, we got out early because there was nothing really to do after the syllabus review

so i chilled downtown, im trying to get to know this place a little better

because the space chances throughout the day, i want to make an opportunity of having these long breaks

i ran into khelil too, it seems im always running into this guy..

khelil

4 hours later, saul picks me up infront of sephora and we head to red mill for some burger

i grab the bleu cheese bacon burger (my favorite)

everytime i go there, im proud, proud that this place is on the top 20 burger joints in america in GQ,with that issues cover being Jessica Simpson in an american flag two piece bathing suit..does it get much better than that?

then we head to EVO gear and i found the perfect camera bag

..but i couldnt afford it

like most things

it

sucks

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