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Underground Academics

sydney — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:24:32 +0000

Is there some kind of conference on? Because there seems to be an unusual number of professorial-looking people on the Jubilee line these days.

Burlesque Life Drawing

sydney — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:57:10 +0000

Fun night of life drawing with a burlesque-costumed model with the London Life Drawing Society… I always wind up doing my best drawings of everyone but the model!

If burlesque becomes banned, what about burlesque life-drawing? Is it kinky because it has clothes?

Ponies!

sydney — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:11:52 +0000

Just a few ponies from a sketching/walking expedition.. some bunnies and deer, too, but they were a bit shy.

Arty Boys

sydney — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:29:02 +0000

Here’s some arty boys from my sketchbook winnow… I think all three of these are from Annecy last year (click for larger if you like):

Dorking Out at the Medieval Festival

sydney — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:23:56 +0000

Last weekend I went to the medieval festival at Herstmonceaux Castle, where a fabulously geeky, if damp, time was had by all. Pictures of me in a fairy princess getup have most unfortunately all mysteriously disappeared.

The amazing thing about this festival are the dozens and dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of re-enactors who don’t only spend the weekend in meticulous period dress, but camp in period tents and cook over period fire eating period food– and fight some pretty serious battles in head-to-toe period armour!

I did masses of drawings but only a fraction of the ones I wanted to, with the amazing costumes and scenes and horses and objects everywhere! Mostly I focused on the costume for this trip, here’s a couple of pages:

Long Time No Post

sydney — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:20:48 +0000

Yikes it’s been ages since I’ve posted.. very tiring production; also, the dailies room where I’m working is really terrible for drawing in. I got only a few drawings of the folks around here (click for larger, resemblance to persons living is entirely coincidental):

Underground

sydney — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:04:28 +0000

Another day, another tube ride. If I’m luck I can wedge myself against the back wall and do some drawing.

Indulge me

sydney — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:56:04 +0000

Some sketches of my babe obsessing over his work.. isn’t he adorable?

City Farm

sydney — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:11:34 +0000

I’ve been meaning to draw at the local mini-farm for ages. There was one rooster with a hideous but useful disease which revealed some of his featherless anatomy in a kind of cross-section.

Dailies

sydney — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:30:04 +0000

Not much time to draw these days, but there’s always dailies:

We’re all getting kind of tired..