Thursday, October 29, 2009

Getting back into it

After about 3 or 4 years since my last time doing any life drawing, I have returned to taking a life drawing class at the Animation Guild with Karl Gnass. Here are are few select ones from the last several weeks. They're 5-15 minute poses and the loose brown one at the bottom was a 2 minute pose and is actually my favorite one.

It's been far too long for me to be away from doing any life drawing like this. Although I now approach it with a better understanding of form from my time animating, and find some areas much improved over my old stuff. Much of the time now I'm just struggling with the charcoal and crayon which feel foreign to me now and my lines and shadow tones end up all wonky.

8 comments:

dwooman said...

wait what?!

i'm taking classes at the union with gnass.

when are your classes?

Matthew Long said...

Mondays at 7pm.

Amish Kumar said...

oh cool! im in the class across the hall from you guys learning animation. i take karls class on fridays since its 6 hours long

Jason Pruett said...

good to meet you at the CTN-X. I dig your running squirrel.

C.Deboda said...

Some nice work here. I like the very bottom sketch on this post too.

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Mike Nassar said...

sweet dude! man I've been getting the itch to get into it too.
are you doing long and short pose stuff?

looks solid man.

Sal Lopez said...

Hey Matt, good to see you and all the Titan folk at the CTN-X. Good to see you're still a'postin'. Life drawing looks good, always good to get that practice in for sure