Cafe Sketch In-Class Gestures IX

This last Friday in cafe sketch we started by drawing a model for 30 second increments and then 2 minute increments.  Later in the day, I went to the Ballet Met to draw the dancers in a ballet lesson.  Many thanks to the dancers who are always a pleasure to draw as well as friendly.

Gestures: #88

Cafe Sketch HW VI

This week for homework we were assigned to draw 50 sketches of our favorite animal.  I decided to do the red fox.  I love foxes, partly because of their beauty and part because my last name "fuchs" translates to "fox."  It was interesting to watch the movement of these creatures which are sometimes cat-like and at other times dog-like.

Gestures: 50

Cafe Sketch In-Class Gestures VIII

Last friday, we warmed up by drawing some fast sketches of animals from pixelovely.com.  Then, we went to the Ohio Expo Center to draw APALCAS.  They had a show on Saturday, but were setting up the alpacas on the Friday.  I love these creatures.  They always look as if they are smiling.

Gestures: #100

Cafe Sketch In-Class Gestures VII

Last Friday, we went to the Arnold Sports Festival to draw gestures of the athletes.  I really wanted to draw martial arts, but we could not find where that event was being held.  For most of the time, we drew the girls participating in gymnastics competitions.  They were all very talented.

 

Gestures: #69

Cafe Sketch In-class Gestures VI

Last Friday in my Cafe Sketch class we drew from a live model during our morning session.  There were some very interesting posses in terms of weight and stance.  We use bean shapes to help us interpret the movement of the torso.

 Later in the day we went to the North Market to draw and characterized the people there.

 

Gestures: #92

Cafe Sketch HW V

This week in cafe sketch we had to draw gestures from our favorite winter Olympics' sport.  I decided to draw snowboarding events.  I found this really fun and interesting since their feet are strapped parallel to each other and they must twist their bodies and use the weight of their torso to guide themselves along.

 

Gestures: #104

Cafe Sketch In-Class Gestures V

This Friday in my Cafe Sketch class we went to Chiller again to draw the ice skaters there.  We also drew during the free-skate hour that had many younger kids and more inexperienced skaters.  This time drawing the ice skaters was easier for me than last time, because I had a better idea how they moved.