Getting into the Swing of it

Adjusting to having all the time in the world again. Figuratively, of course.

Felt like updating my blog today. So Thursday was our second monthly ATC meeting!
How'd it go? Well, I thought it went over really well. Got the dvd's up and working, turn out was GREAT, lots of fun activities, lots of snacks, and fun fun art was exchanged.

To the left I have some quick and pretty bad scans of the atc's I made (my pale blue and yellow just disappeared in the middle one there), for the themes Supernatural, Aliens, Persephone and Zombies.

Zombies are infuriatingly popular, it seems.

In return I got a handful of Indiana Jones cards, one of which made me laugh till I cried. That's right, it was that awesome. Couldn't have asked for anything more amazing.

So another thing, I wanted to post the life drawings I hauled ass to create for my portfolio.

These are my collection of 30 second poses I decided to include in my portfolio, with my room mate as acting judge.

Apparently, these are really good for thirty seconds, because they include a full figure.

Before I went to extra life on a weekend, I hadn't done thirty second poses since last year. I assumed I wasn't going to be able to get a full figure in, and I was spooked. After all, I have a hard enough time getting a decent figure drawing in two minutes, how the hell was I going to manage with only thirty seconds?

Fairly well, apparently. I enjoyed myself highly, and think thirty seconds are probably my favourites, once I get ten or fifteen poses in. I think the bottom three are from the same session, while the top two are from the day before and the day after, respectively.

These are slightly longer poses, where I could start adding more refined lines and stuff. The reason I went to extra life was to pick up a bunch of five minute poses, but I came out with a lot of successful shorter poses that were decent enough to compile on their own pages and show off.

The first one was an "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh," for a possibility to use on my full pages, but I wound up going back on Sunday (and missing the first period of the hockey game) for a final round, and it's a really good thing too.

These are the final drawings I wound up using in my portfolio, each of them having come from my last session. My favourite is the middle one, where the model was sitting with her back to me.
It was a pretty stressful weekend, but I was really proud with the results. Thursday I recycled about ten pounds of newsprint, all full of life drawings, and flipping through them I realized, "Hey, these aren't all that bad!" Guess I'm getting better after all. Ironically, throughout the entire weekend of drawing, my wrists didn't hurt at all. My arms on the other hand, were sore to the touch, and so was my back.

I'm really glad DQ went through everything... I don't think I would have been happy with my initial portfolio anyways.

Worked really hard to bring this portfolio together, I really hope it pays off this year.