Life drawing after uni!

I have started attending weekly drawing club All the Young Nudes in Dundee since completing my Masters course, so here are my efforts so far! 

I may sometimes forget about the blog but i do try and post all my arts onto instagram @rockitbabydoll and i have a new twitter which i would also like to start filling with my art @RockItBabyDoll. (I really have to have a serious chat with myself about branding but this username has stuck since my teens and my full name just seems boring... however i am aware of how embarrassing it is so bare with me)

Ofcourse there is also my official online portfolio that i link to potential employers: http://www.coroflot.com/antonina-slavalawson/portfolio. This, i am considering scrapping and remaking as a tumblr blog because i have seen portfolios as tumblr pages that look tasty! Aaaand i  feel like it would be far more accessible than coroflot. 

I haven't quite got into the rhythm of producing work regularly enough to have a facebook art page but i'm definitely thinking about it- i just need to sort my life out a bit first!

Limited palette experiment

I tried a new thing! the thing was using a very limited set of colours to complete a painting in photoshop:

This was the set palette i chose to use and i did not create it- i found it Here

 I chose to use this photograph as reference- i don't own it and i can't find the source now i'm sorry.

And this is it complete! Really enjoyed it actually- got really bored doing the flowers though... Photoshop CC, Wacom Bamboo A5 

I think i'll carry on doing the limited colours thing, it worked out really well and i think that it somehow made the process more fun and challenging for me.

Life Drawing

So, leading life drawing classes for 1st year animation wannabes leaves little time for life drawing! XD But here's what i have from the last month anyway. (I use the term animation wannabes in the most loving way possible, i am greatly enjoying getting some teaching experience!)

-all mainly biro pen and pro markers

Life According to Slava: Update

Being a resident means i get to carry on doing life drawing for free, which is brill :)

Observational Drawing: Update

  I'm actually not entirely sure I've ever bothered to post my observational drawing here... but i have this time! Savour it!

This stuff was mainly from Edinburgh- National Museum and the World's End... when i wasn't working.

Another Life Drawing Dump (including last ever official :'( )

When i say last ever official, i mean that we just had our last ever timetabled life drawing class before graduation. I intend to carry on life drawing as sadly i feel that my best achievement over 4 years of university has been to learn how to draw naked folk really well. 

Also i may even squeeze in some more life drawing before the end of uni as the 2nd year animators have started offering themselves as models for more exciting poses (with guns and swords etc.)

All biro on paper

Enjoy!

I think this fellow was my last official djcad life drawing :'(

I kind of buggered the perspective in this one and tried to fix it by drawing directly on top...

Life Drawing dump

Sorry for the lack of posts, i've been busy, but here's the pick of this semester's life drawing so far :)

Bonus! check out my dancer observational drawings from the Space, Dundee College, over on my Dancing Nina blog.