Al's Shop of Horrors

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I’ve got another batch of figure studies to show! First set of 30 sec poses.

2 min poses, got some beautiful interesting gestures in this.

5 min pose

10 min pose. Some facial effort here.

This looks like I roughed out the pose then redid it? I wrote down 10 mins for both pages so who knows?

15 min pose, apparently I also was dissatisfied with this one then redid it nicer.

Final pose, 20 mins

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This model was great and also a badass, doing handstand poses and such! I really like this session’s results and inks, so many shadows!

10x 2 min poses.

A couple of 5 min poses.

10 mins.

This is either a 10 or 15?

Two 20 min poses here! These came out great.

And only had time for a 10 at the end since our sessions were an hour shorter this semester.

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Subway sketch dump. Various dates, just never got around to posting them.

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Just some pen and inks I did for Inktober 2019.

The fly is 8x10 and the beetle is 16x20. Some progress shots and details, so you can see some of the pearlescent ink shine. I don’t have any WIPs for the fly :<

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Another old sesh!

This model was beautiful and inspiring, she had a lot of ‘classical” style poses I’d describe it as. Warming up with 10x 2 minute poses!

Getting more detailed with some 5 min poses.

Some 5 minute portraits; one of my weaknesses is faces so I tried to get some practice in.

Got a couple of 10s here.

And then our final 20 min poses! Love these inked ones!

Excellent session!

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Long time no post, I haven’t been in the right headspace to post sketches. BUT I have been attending my classes on the semi-regular as my schedule permits. This is an old fall session, obviously now I have PLENTY of quarantine time to catch up on these uploads.

10x 2 minute poses.

5 min poses.

10 min poses.

And the final 20 min! More inking experimentation here!

Overall a success despite the shortened hours, we got another dancer with lovely poses this fall evening.

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Day 2: Mindless

Day 2: Mindless

We're all a little bit mindless on the subway with our faces buried in our smartphones. I lined this one with my pitt ink pens post-trip, not a horrible effect but I prefer the spontaneity of the pencil sketch .

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Some inktober samples! “Ring”

I already posted this to my other account, but here it is to keep things updated. I haven’t been active online as of late, but I’ve been doing art quietly in the background. I’ll get around to posting it all, I’ve just been busy with work and stuff! This is inktober 1: Ring. Originally I wanted to make some coffee ring art, but that didn’t work out as well as I planned so I decided to experiment and see how the wet ink interacts with water and moves on the paper. Better non-trashy posts to come!

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This guy had some VERY ambitious poses and facial expressions, and was able to hold almost all of them. He said he liked telling stories in his poses. Awesome.

2 minute poses.

5 min poses.

I really like this sitting one.

10 mins x 2

20 mins! Also a nice pose, reminds me of a classical sculpture or an atlas.

This was approx. a 15 min pose, was meant to be a 30 (that’s why I didn’t get to shade it sadly) but his legs started falling asleep. Whoops.

And the last 10 min pose.

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Something different I’ve been working on. I revived a project I originally worked on in school and gave my illustration new life!

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Just some subway sketches I did recently. It’s the poor man’s life drawing class!

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Another session I’ve had in storage! A lot of poses for this one. 2 mins to warm up.

Trying out some new pen brushes my friend gifted me :) 5 min poses.

10 mins

and the rest are 20s

Not too shabby!

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Haven’t had a chance to post this! I started my spring semester of life drawing and broke in my new bigass 11x14 sketchbook! Some proportion errors but it’s alright, practice makes perfect. Some 2 min warmups to start.

5 min poses.

10 min poses, random clothes lol.

Either 10 or 15 mins, I was unclear.

And a 20 min.

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SO I guess I’m up to #16! I’m determined to get at least one Pokemon drawing challenge done, it’s just not a pokedecember anymore LOL. Anyway, this is the fav psychic type prompt. This might be the most detailed cell-shaded style piece I’ve done so far and I’m pretty pleased!

And the progress shots for the hell of it, my inner animator is showing:

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Change of pace...working on something else that wasn’t working out. Got frustrated and wound up with this instead. I guess my art block isn’t done yet grr.

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15: Electric

Pokemon sticker concept!

Working through a massive art block, hence the delay.

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LATE post, but it’s kind of a companion to the other 2 sessions. TWO figures! Clothed! Many challenges in this one, it was a lot of fun.

2 min poses

5 min poses

10 min poses

And the 20 mins