Life Drawing 09.19.09: 30 mn Portrait Painting

 Last night I had a good time in life drawing. I painted this portrait in 30 minutes with Painter and an Intuis tablet. I have decided to paint at least a hundred portraits in life drawing like this or better, I will post them as they are created.

- David Stein Ferguson

life drawing costume sessions

Here is a pastel from one of the life drawing costume sessions held at the AVAA.

- David Stein Ferguson

Last nights life drawing portrait

 Here is last nights 30 minute portrait from life drawing. I will do 3 more hours of portrait drawing today, working hard to get better.

-David Stein Ferguson

Life Drawing Portrait Post #26

  Todays post is another one of the stack of portraits done in life drawing. I have 3 more hours of life drawing planned today, always striving for improvement.

- David Stein Ferguson

... another portrait...

 Today's post is another 30 minute life drawing in pastel. It is a rainy day here in Austin, perfect for creating art so now I will get back to work.

-David Stein Ferguson  

a 30 minute pastel life drawing

Here is a 30 minute figure, drawn in pastel during one of our AVAA life drawing sessions.

- David Stein Ferguson

the old school animation days...

I am sure those of you who know me have heard me talk about how I worked with a bunch of really talented folks as an old school animator in the 90's for Heart of Texas Productions. I recently spent some time searching for the the commercials and films I worked on way back then and found some stuff that I would like to share.

We did a lot of commercials for T.V. The old company demo reel can be viewed here-

Even though I was a pencil and paper cell animation guy, the days of 3D animation etc. were upon us and this is where I got my introduction to Photoshop, Lightwave, etc.

Eventually H.O.T. was contracted to create three children's animation films for home video about St. Francis and his animal friends. I spent an incredible amount of time drawing cute little animals for these films. I found a clip from the films that someone (probably another former H.O.T. employee) posted on youtube and I am proud to say that I worked on all the animals in this scene. You can check it out here -

Here are a few original blue line drawings from the films that I found in my archive of old art as well. These are some of the many cells that had to be redone and were destined for the trash, luckily I put them away in a drawer instead.

short pose life drawing sessions

Here are a few speed paintings done in the short pose life drawing sessions at the A.V.A.A. Created using Painter my 6X8 Intuis tablet and a laptop.

- David Stein Ferguson

... more 30 minute Life Drawing Portraits

 Here are some more 30 minute portraits from life drawing, 2 charcoal and one pastel on various types of paper. More coming soon.

- David

100+ Figures from my imagination

  Last August I spent one night a week hanging out and drawing with a group of fellow artists at a coffee shop for what we call "sketch night". I set a goal for myself to draw at least 100, 1 minute figures from my imagination using sharpie markers and inkjet paper each time we got together. Here are over 100 them.

 I will post 100+  more later...

-David Stein Ferguson

more 30 minute life drawings...

 I have been doing around five portraits from life every week for over three years now, As a result I have a large pile of drawings like this collecting dust in my studio. I will be scanning and posting at least a hundred of them on this blog. Here are three more, as usual they were drawn from life in various life drawing sessions around town and are all 30 minute poses.