sketch a day 4 / Atelier Week 3

So today is week 3 of my 6 week Saturday class at Sadie Valeri Atelier in San Francisco. I am having a wonderful time there. I have always wanted to work on my anatomy and rendering ability and accuracy. There is nothing better than have 6 - 3 hour long sessions of the same pose so you can really match what your eye is seeing. This will have to count as my sketch of the day as well.

Sketch A Day 3 - Point Bonita Lighthouse

Started this Friday off with an early morning trip to the VA hosipital at Ft. Miley, a hidden gem in San Francisco. That early morning light on a rare, fog-free morning creates beautiful shadow shapes on the mountainous basalt cliffs across the narrow Golden Gate.
   Did this 30 minute plein-aire sketch with that Cintiq Companion Hybrid. using Artflow, a terrific combination.

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I have wanted to work on some line drawing for some time. I have always been inspired by FengZhu, Scott Robertson and others who have that industrial design background and truly master perspective line drawings.
   I have worked for a long time in photoshop and have worked in a technique with only simple preliminary sketches, and then I block in value and start painting, I only bring in some tight lines at the end. The problem is, although it feels more flexible, it hides the fact that sometimes I am not committing to forms. When all you have is line, you cant fudge it. I hope to do more of these as part of my daily sketch series and watch some improvement with practice. Its also one of the reasons I purchased a cintiq companion, so I am working that into my workflow for these.

NEAR FUTURE EXCAVATOR! My son has been really into heavy equipment lately so it got me thinking about doing something other than a battle vehicle.

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There you have it. my attempt at creating more images, regardless of how they look. I had a weird dream as I was awakening today and thought I would try to capture it as best I could.

I am giving myself a 1 hour max timelimit on these so I can hopefully stick to doing 1 a day for as long as possible.

I am aware of how hard it is to commit to that, but I think if I do my best, I will at least get better at composing images and not being too attached to each one.

Camel Robot

Gets your from A to B in an unforgiving deserted wasteland.

French Girls, Gallery girls sketch

Was scrolling through my folder of old sketches and found this page with a sketch of 2 models of the Gallery Girls back when they came through San Francisco. Probably been a couple years by now. I just wanted to paint something into a value study.

SPACE TRAIN - An electromagnetic railgun to escape Earth's atmosphere

Here are some sketches of a Space Train. It is a means of generating enough velocity to break out of Earth's atmosphere, timed with the rotation and trajectory to put its many passengers on a path to a distant destination with minimal need for course correction. Just trying to save on fuel and rockets.