LIFE STUDIES
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Figure Drawings
Gesture Drawings
I spent several months doing what I call "stealth drawing" in order to capture momentary "poses" of people engaged in various activities—fleeting as those living snapshots tend to be—and tiny, most just 1" to 2" high. (Gesture-drawing samples were a requirement for applying to the Animation Emphasis program.)
Locations included a construction site, a campus cafeteria, a student lounge, a big indoor mall in downtown San Francisco, a busy street fair in my home town, a 24-hour gym with big windows, an outdoor hand-carwash place swarming with workers and customers (below left), a park where vendors were setting up stalls and locals were gathering for a Wednesday farmer's market (below right), and so on.
Town Events—Fairfax Farmers Market and San Rafael Street-Painting Festival
Student Body
Crew and Customers at a Hand Carwash
Construction Workers
Critters
Bone Drawings
A comment in Robert Beverly Hale's Master Class in Figure Drawing (p. 25) inspired my four-month study of human bones:
[O]ne of the ways [the old masters] taught their students was by having them become familiar with the skeleton. . . . [I]f you got an apprenticeship with Leonardo or another great artist at the age of eight, . . . the old man would throw you a bone and say, "Learn this." And by learning it, he simply meant to learn it so you could draw that bone out of your head [from memory] in any direction.
