This painting is out of the same watercolor pad as the four figure drawings just posted so it’s from 1992 as well. It’s a very early version of my Black Molly character.
Yeah, those figure drawing classes really made a difference. This isn’t a perfect piece but it’s world more “real” than anything I’d been doing the year previously.
A final example from the figure drawing class I took in 2002. Taking figure drawing improved my drawing skills far more than I ever expected. Until I took the classes I didn’t realize how bad I was. It’s amazing how many wrong understanding I had about not only the human figure but how to portray weight and mass in general.
Another piece from the figure drawing course I took back in 2002. I tried to portray the woman as accurately as possible. I took a few liberties with the background.
Another example of a figure drawing from one of the classes I took in 1992 (and 93). This was obviously one of the male models. There were usually 2 female models to every male model.
In 1992 and 1993 I took figure drawing classes at the Santa Rosa Junior College. Most of those drawing were done on very large sketch paper that would be a real pain to scan. I did find a few pages that only required a couple of scans and a little photoshopping to knit together. This one was from one of the rare sessions when we had two models posing.
An unfinished Sentient 39 universe illustration from 2002. It depicts a denizen of world that once had a thriving human colony that, for whatever reason, mostly collapsed. The world’s environment is toxic, the air unbreathable to naked human lungs. The humans now live as nomads in hacked together transports and ancient many-times repaired environment suits. As humans have done for thousands of years the nomads have personalized their homes, covered them with paint and talismans and friendly (or threatening) touches.
This is a scan of the original art for the first issue of the free tabloid version of Glyph. The essay on the other side of that link is about ten years out of date. It might be fun to update it for 2010 but that’s going to have to be a project for after I’ve met a lot of other, more pressing deadlines.
I’ve been doing a lot of data entry for my Day Job over the last week. By the time I’ve spent a few hours at it my brain is fried and my ability to sit and do art is pretty minimal. My back is just not happy with me. The one thing I’ve been able to do is scan art. So I’ll be able to start posting sketches and drawings again.
I’ve been pulling art out of boxes rather than sketchbooks. That means some of it will be more finished than what I’d find in the sketchbooks. Some, but, like today’s post, not all. This image is from 2002. It’s an illustration of one of the intelligent species in my Sentient 39 universe – a Trader.
The Traders live in an immense and ancient colony ship. Launched from a world in another galaxy, over thousands of years breakdowns in the radiation containment fields of the ship, resulted in the poisoning and death of the original builders of the ship. With no one to contain them the gardens and animal life brought by original builders grew and adapted and mutated and evolved. And eventually one of the species evolved enough intelligence to figure out that it was living on a ship and, eventually, learned to control and pilot that ship.
Now they travel from world to world, trading goods and services and information. Because they evolved without gravity they can’t ever land on the worlds they visit.
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I’m not posting any new progress reports today. Aside from a general lack of progress I’d like to get the info into some sort of spreadsheet so that it’s easier to read and update.
I’m also trying to get chores taken care of before I go see family up in Alaska on Tuesday. I’m not sure whether I’ll be updating this blog while I’m up there or not.
And what have we learned so far? Not much really. I’m terribly over committed. Really, really over committed when you consider that on most days of the week I have less than an hour available to draw. I don’t know if I’d manage to get more done on any individual project if I had more time available or if I’d just gludge things up by committing to more projects. I’m kind of stupid that way.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
Progress Report – DavidLeeIngersoll.com
Less than embryonic
Progress Report – Skook Sketchblog
This post 1708. 292 to go. I really need to scan some art. These progress reports are going to get dull pretty quickly.
And finally, I need to scan more images so I have something for you to look at every day. I know, no one is dying of suspense waiting for the next sketch or resurrected childhood drawing but posting here on a regular basis is a good way for me to pay attention to the passing of time.
I also need to repost the addresses of the blogs and websites of friends, acquaintances and regularly read complete strangers. I lost my list when I updated my template months ago and have only just now started recreating it.
My current thinking is that on post 2000 I’ll retire this blog. I expect to continue some sort of regular posting but, if all goes well, it will be at DavidLeeIngersoll.com. This is post 1707. 293 to go.
And how go things on my other projects?
Progress Report – Oz Squad Comic
Finished – 12 pages
Inked – 8 pages
Penciled – 19
Roughed – 9
Progress Report – Oz Squad Novel Illustrations –
Cover – Inked. Additional Design and Text to Come.
Illustrations –
Finished – 1
Penciled – 1
Yet To Be Started – 34
Progress Report – Sacrifice (Comic for The Black Seal) –
Finished (Photoshopped) – 0 pages
Shaded – 0 pages
Inked – 0 pages
Pencilled – 4 pages
Roughed – 1 page
Lettered – all 5 pages.
Progress Report – Moe and Detritus 8 page minicomic
Script unfinished.
Progress Report – Oziana Story –
Finished – 9 pages
To be done … ?
Progress Report – 2011 Fiction Blog
Illustrations –
172 finished
182 in progress
23 unstarted
Posts written – zero
DavidLeeIngersoll.com – less than embryonic
(Note to self – put this stuff into a spreadsheet or something. Slob.)
