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Hilarious Fish Halloween Special

Can you guess the hidden pun?

Sketch Club was at Rookwood Cemetary today.. They had an ‘open day’ on.. it was highly unusual. Didn’t do much sketching.. it was too hot. Sat in the shade to draw St Michaels Chapel, then had a wander amoungst the graves where a sculpture walk “Hidden” was exhibitioned.
If only the weather wasn’t so hot, I would have loved to have drawn some of the huge greek mausoleums or some of the really old decorative headstones..

Sketch Club went to the Sando in Newtown for some FREE life drawing.
Did an okay job. The last two I particularly like. I left before the final 20min pose.. It was almost 10pm and still had to drive home..
In comparison to the Arthouse, it lacks class. Not so much in the people that attend (or the models) but the venue itself. The Sando is sadly a bit run down and the only music is whatever is going on downstairs. The Arthouse has a nice 1920s ambiance. There are pub drink prices however.. but the main thing that irked me was the stickyness of the tables from all the drink spillage. Seriously wipe that shit up yo.

Sketch Club went to the Museum of Contempory Art on the weekend.. didn’t do a great deal of sketching though, drawing other peoples work seems weird to me..
I haven’t been to the MCA before, so I spent most of my time being a tourist and checking out the artworks. The Steve Irwin was in the quay too. Such a mean looking ship.

Spurty the Harpooned Blue Whale

With the announcement of South Korea getting back into whaling and now labelling it as scientific research, I though it would be the perfect opportunity to shamelessly plug myself and reblog a creation I made a couple years ago.

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Derived from dislike of commercial whaling and the depths of my mind comes a morbidly cute depiction.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE - 300dpi jpeg @ 2330x3357 922kb

Support WWF or Sea Seapard if you can. Shame on you South Korea :(

Sketch Club was at Australian Museum yesterday. Coincidently they had Deep Oceans exhibit. I was too fascinated by the specimens I forgot to take photos :| They had a few angler fish, viper fish, a chunk of colossal squid tentacle, some vent crabs and isopods..

Scribbled a couple things. Most of my time was spent walking around looking at stuff though.

Did my usual walk around the city after. Bought vol 63 of One Piece, spotted a neat print book (adds to birthday wish list), then a few spots of graffiti caught my eye on the way home. I love the Banksy-esque girl with the pain bucket.

I took a heap of photos of a few of the installations and street art in the surrounding streets, but for some reason my phone decided to delete them :( So these are all I’ve got from today.. A couple sketches while having tea and dumplings after a stroll through White Rabbit Gallery.

Soo I didn’t keep up my attendance at the Arthouse.. the previous was in October :|

But this was from last Monday. I was pretty exhausted and wasn’t quite feeling it.
To top it off she changed positions quickly and didn’t have a great deal of time to get a lot of detail in.. So I kind of focused on getting the general shape then focusing on areas.
I really liked the pigtails. Actually I really like rush drawing hair. You just let the pencil go loose.
All done in 3B pencil (tone/contrast/exposure play in photoshop)..

Sketch Club meet at Australian Museum. HOORAY FOR TAXIDERMY

3B pencil, scanned, black and white with contrast ramped

I love you, man..

The Journey to Senbazuru

So I decided to embark on this epic adventure of RSI. It will test my patience and may possibly drive me insane, but the goal will be worth it. Its a Senbazuru, A Thousand Paper Cranes.

I’ve decided to make them small, you know because the challenge isn’t tough enough.
I’ve got pale blue and green 60x60mm squares of 50gsm paper. So its nice and thin, perfect for tight small folds.

I’ll decide on a pattern later, but a candy cane swirl would be great.

So, 1 down. 999 to go.

I got into the giftmas spirit and made a beard out of a piece of white card… however I was afraid if someone pulled on it, it would guillotine my ears off.

Paper Elephant woes..

My sister likes elephants. Its her birthday soon, so I decided instead of buying card, I’d make an origami elephant.

OH HOW FOOLISH WAS I.
I’ve gone through 3 different designs of elephant, each resulting in a scrunched up piece of paper which was thrown across the room..

..Until I settled on this design.

I actually managed to complete the model.. but even after 4 tries, things still didn’t end up looking the same.

The final one is pretty good. I’m not 100% happy with the tail (the hind leg part should be flush with the body), but everything else turned out great.

For the moment thats the final one. I’ll have another go tomorrow using the orange card stock.. its thicker paper, which makes folding harder, but the the end result will be stronger and the colour is better.

Why can’t my sister like llamas instead…

For Halloween (it was coincidental) I went to the Arthouse for some Monday night sketching. I had a really good time, drawings for the most part were spot on.. Sometimes you draw well and last night was one of those times.
I still can’t draw faces and hand right.. so as you can see I avoided drawing them.. I need to do a study on just those features.
I like the back shots too.. drawing the curves of a woman from behind look really good. Also that chair. I LOVE THAT CHAIR. The curves of the framework is a delight to draw.
I’ll hopefully be attending the Arthouse ever second week and I post my efforts up.

All this was done using a 3B pencil, which is a change from my usual 2H.