In-Class Session: 7 Samurai

The most recent session for Cafe Sketch, Rafael brought in his copy of Kirosawa's 7 Samurai.  We focused on the compositions of each shot, something Kirosawa is renowned for.  I got a lot of individual figures done in this class session, which I'm excited about.

Columbus Zoo

The long awaited trip to the Columbus Zoo!  It, of course, ended up being on the coldest day of the year, but it was a great day.  We figured out pretty quickly to stay in the indoor exhibits, since they were temperature controlled.

The Shadowbox Holiday Hoopla

Our final session at the Shadowbox was a dress rehearsal for their show "Holiday Hoopla."  It was bittersweet, but the show was great.  I ended up paying more attention to the stage than actually sketching, so there aren't as many figures as I would have hoped.

In Class Session: Mon Oncle

A quick session for today, focusing on the compositions and poses of characters in the film Mon Oncle.  I have seen the animated movie The Illusionist, so seeing the original character that inspired the protagonist was interesting.

Madama Butterfly

This opera is an excellent reason for why I need to learn Italian.  It was such a beautiful production.  The acting was superb, so I could get a basic understanding of the story, but I felt I was missing out on a lot.

In Class Session: Silhouettes

We continued using different media for this class, focusing on using marker to create silhouettes of figures.

This last page was mostly to focus on creating a composition based on figures in a movie.

In Class Session: Line of Action and Animals

A lot of pages for this class!  We focused on using charcoal and conte rather than just ball-point pen.  I'm not used to media like this, so my sketches were really large.

Lines of Action depicting specific words and actions

 

 Various Animals

I learned that I really like drawing deer and polar bears, but not that great at charcoal in general.

Ballet Met Jazz Class

Sat in on an all-ages Jazz Dance class at the Ballet Met for this class.  It was a rather short session, but because of all the varied, repeated routines I was able to get a decent amount of poses.

OSU School of Music Percussion Performance

This one was probably one of my favorite places so far.  Really interesting poses from the performers, and a lot of great music.

OSU Men's Soccer

As a class we took a trip to watch the OSU Men's Soccer game.  It was really cold and spitting sleet.

The All American Quarter Horse Congress

For this class we were to draw horses in the All American Quarter Horse Congress which was held in Columbus this year.

In this class I learned that horses are weird looking and really hard to draw.

Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Class

Originally there had been a trip to the Ohio RenFest planned the previous Sunday, but I missed it due to a work meeting.  Instead, I drew poses from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  These are the first 100; I'll be uploading the next sketches in a different post.

Day 10: A few Things...

At first the class went to an outdoor rock climbing wall.  Some of my favorite poses were 2-8:  a man doing some advanced yoga poses.  Knees over the shoulder type of stuff.

However, getting so into Fall, we had about an hour before it got too dark to see and the climbers started to leave.  Instead we went and met back in the class room and drew poses from "The Ministry of Silly Walks" from Monty Python's Flying Circus.  Continuing with the silly-leg-movement theme, we next drew poses from an Olympic marathon.

Day 9: Cory

This time we had a life model come into the class to pose for us.  He's actually posed in other classes I've had before, like painting or a figure drawing class.  Funnily enough, he and his wife sometimes come into the store where I work, and he recognized me.  We had a nice brief chat about the school.  Anyway, here are the poses he did for us.

Also featured:  a contour doodle of myself when we were doing contour line drawings.

Day 8: Easton Town Center

Malls, I've discovered, are a great place for life drawing.  The Food Court especially so:  people are sitting or standing in poses for an extended time, are varying in age and size, and offer different styles of clothing to draw.