For those I haven't spoken to recently, my plan is to pursue three seperate careers, though each will be rooted in creating images. The first is simply 'representational fine art', so oil paintings, portraits, still lives, landscapes, that sort of thing. The second is more lighthearted illustration for magazines, books, newspapers. I'd love to get in to political cartooning, but I'm not sure anyone would understand my kind of humour. Lastly, I really want to get in to storyboarding. Working for films, adverts, or even just writers needing a little visual punch to get funding for their ideas. So lots and lots of different skills I'm going to need, but also a few core ones relevant to all three.
First step was to create a personal curriculum of the many many things I know that I need to improve on. This ultimately ends up with a series of activities to do each day, ranging from quick posemaniacs warm up drawings to anatomy studies, master studies, reading up on history of art or drawing theory and so on and so on.
I'm not going to show everything that comes out of these exercises as it would quickly become tedious (a bit like that deluge of life drawings that I've been putting up over the past few months, eh?) However, I will of course put up the occasional teaser. I quite liked the way the below image came out. It was a pretty quick study of a famous Rembrandt (probably my all time favourite artist at the moment) but in a more lighthearted style. I wanted to try and capture the variety of characters and expressions that he's so good at describing. Also, while I've cropped the overall composition, I love his distinctive way of combining light and dark shapes to really draw you in...
Tombow brush/nib pens on standard printer paper stuff.
Stay tuned for news of LARA and my first finished cast drawing soon!
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