I've just finished reading 'Shutter Island' by Dennis Lehane, and his way of writing is so emphatically descriptive there's a few characters I had to draw...
"...a middle-aged woman with wispy wheat hair gone almost bald on top...raised a single finger to her lips. Teddy noticed a dark red scar, thick as licorice, that ran across her throat. She smiled, finger still held to her lips, and then shook her head very slowly at him."
"...a young woman, beautiful, her face blemished by dark rings under the eyes, rings as dark as her black hair. The eyes themselves were too wide, as if something hot were prodding them from inside her head. Whatever she saw beyond that camera lens...wasn't fit to be seen."
Those that know me know that whatever it happens to be, the book is better than the film. They are separate entities, but I'd much rather read it, just to have a comparative base. *
So I read alot of books, and watch alot of films. I tend to draw while watching said films, so alot of my sketchbooks are filled with random doodles of scenery, characters and what have you. Very few see the light of day, so here, for a limited time only - an exercise in dynamic figure drawing, Ramona Flowers.
(Drawn in ink - grey fine, black fine and block, A3 size, about 10mins)
Last, but not least, some animation. This is mostly because I've hit a wall with my own animation work, so I thought I'd take a break from that and give myself a kick up the peg-barred backside. So, I followed in the footsteps of talented animatect Sarah Dargie, and did some lifedrawing turnaround.
(*The only exception to this is Twilight. The books are exactly as bad as the films.)
Those that know me know that whatever it happens to be, the book is better than the film. They are separate entities, but I'd much rather read it, just to have a comparative base. *
So I read alot of books, and watch alot of films. I tend to draw while watching said films, so alot of my sketchbooks are filled with random doodles of scenery, characters and what have you. Very few see the light of day, so here, for a limited time only - an exercise in dynamic figure drawing, Ramona Flowers.
(Drawn in ink - grey fine, black fine and block, A3 size, about 10mins)Last, but not least, some animation. This is mostly because I've hit a wall with my own animation work, so I thought I'd take a break from that and give myself a kick up the peg-barred backside. So, I followed in the footsteps of talented animatect Sarah Dargie, and did some lifedrawing turnaround.
(*The only exception to this is Twilight. The books are exactly as bad as the films.)
