A Very Productive Painting Trip in San Francisco

I took a trip to San Francisco to reset my brain and did a week of intense drawing and painting. I felt so rusty in the beginning, but I felt like I improved as the week went on. I pushed myself hard, painting as soon as the sun went up, and drawing in cafes through the night. Then working on little drawing projects on my friend's couch where I was welcome to crash. I drew until my eyelids refused to stay open. I work harder on my vacations than on my non-vacations, as far as physical and mental effort exerted, but I really love that I'm working on my own thing. My own expressions. Anyway, these paintings are for sale in my store. I hope they find a caring home, perhaps in San Francisco, where I left a piece of my heart. OH, also, thank you Jeff Lance for letting me crash on your couch. I owe getting out of my creative rut to you. Also, special thanks to his two roomates for putting up with me. Hello Ian and Dan

I sat across from Philz Coffee and painted this scene. This was on 24th and Folsom.

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This was the view across the laundromat on Valencia. I did this painting while washing and drying my clothes.

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Sitting outside Craftsman and Wolves painting the view. My favorite part of this painting is the car.

Japantown

Mermaid drawing demo

Here's a mermaid I drew last night. I filmed myself drawing it, you can click here to watch me draw!

A dump of sketches

I have been practicing!
7-15 minute sketches:

1 minute sketches:

and from the zoo:

Figure Drawing

 Went to figure drawing.

felt sick so I didn't stay long. Need to sleep off whatever the heck this is!! Feeling fatigued... frowny face!!!!!!

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

Figure Drawing!

 My blog sorely needs updating!! Been working too much, but I can't help it! My job is so fun. I'm making a marketing video for Trivia Adventure, and so all I did over my Thanksgiving break was draw storyboards. I know it's for a little marketing video. It's not for something huge and epic like Cars 3, but somehow I feel like I'm still doing the coolest job ever. I'm storyboarding!!! Plus, Trivia Adventure is kind of my baby :) I like making little monsters and creatures for it. I can't wait for you all to see the latest level, because I really tried to surpass the older levels in art department. I will let you know when it's released!

Anyway, my new year's resolution is coming early. I can't keep neglecting going to figure drawing. I will go at least 3 times a month, damn it. You know how you do scales with music as practice? You do figure if you're wanting to be an animator/character designer, and so that is what I have to do.

 these are one minute poses. I did about 40 of these and these are the only 3 that I really liked. Gotta work on those one minutes!!!!!

Until next time!
Tiff

Figure Drawing!

I have been attending figure drawing sessions but I haven't been posting my drawings, but I'll try to be good about it and keep this blog updated better. Anyway, here are my favorites from the last couple of sessions. Each pose was 15 minutes done in crayons.

I love going figure drawing! I used to go to 2 sessions on Sunday, a session on Monday, and another one on Thursday. Ah, those were the days. Now I'm lucky if I attend once a month! I have to rearrange my life a bit to squeeze more sessions in.

ps. sorry for the poor scan quality :\

Naked Lunch - Kelli Bland

 It's been a while since I got my butt back to Naked Lunch Figure Drawing for Animators. This session's model was Kelli Bland.

 The session is about 2 and a half hours of very short poses, from 1 minute - 7 minutes.

I'm glad I went because I got a fantastic ego boost by having the winning drawing for a free Naked Lunch session! Unfortunately I can't share the winning drawing because I gave it to our model as a token of my appreciation. :) I really hope she likes it! For her sake, I hope to become rich and famous, so that the drawing I gave her might someday be worth something. I'm nice like that! (hehehe)

I hope you enjoyed my drawings! Thank you for visiting!
Tiffanny

Short Pose Session, AVAA, Reina

 Reina was booked as model again today at the AVAA. Once upon a time, someone commented that I only draw pretty young thin models and that I ought to expand. I soooo agree! I wish I did have a choice in the matter, but I'm not the one booking models! The recession has absolutely, without a doubt, hit us hard financially, but I'm optimistic that next year, I may be able to hire my own models. Need to practice males too. Not that Reina isn't awesome to draw, of course. And kudos to her for being in great shape.
25 minute pose...

 15 minute pose...

5 minute pose...

And that is that!
Hope you keep on visiting me and please comment if you find some bad habits. I'm aware of the thunder-thigh tendency. I continue to fight that... :)

Have a great day!!
Tiffanny

Time Lapse Watercolor Painting, Eunice and Mewsic

 

It's crazy how busy I have been lately. There is really not enough time in the day. I might have mentioned here before that I'm aspiring to paint for a living (or at least as a moonlighting job on top of my day job). I thought the easiest route for me would be to be a children's book illustrator, but trying to get jobs is frustrating. After sending out 80 postcards to various publishers, there have been no responses. I ordered 250 more cards and I'm so busy typing up addresses. It's so mundane but it's gotta be done. I often wonder why many publishers don't accept e-mailed art. That would make my life so much easier. (And cheaper. postcards are expensive to print. Plus the postage!)

I've been busy getting enough paintings together for The Knitting Nest. The woman there, Stacey, has agreed to hang my artwork there for a Ravelry event next weekend. I think it's the perfect venue for my "Knitters and their Cats" series. I would like to extend my gratitude to Eunice for helping me out with my project. She's a super sweet lady with a heart of gold. Regarding her cat's name she says "My cat's name is Mewsic. Music is my favorite thing and when I got her, she meant so much to me, I had to name her after my favorite thing in the world." How sweet, right? 

So here is the Time Lapse Painting on YouTube!

I'm hoping that I could get my readers a special surprise. I'm on my way to Zilker to do some plein air painting. I'm bringing a camera and tripod along. Hopefully, I can get a time lapse of me painting on the spot. Because of the logistics of my camera memory, battery life, etc, it may just be a 1 frame/second deal.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Tiffanny

Short Pose Session, AVAA, Michelle

I was really really really trying that Reilly Method I read about. It's especially apparent on the 5 minute poses. I really enjoy trying something new.  I THINK that it's helping my drawings look more rhythmic, but who knows! :)

15 minutes...

 5 minutes each figure...

 1 minute poses

Oh yes, about that tutorial. Cutting the dialogue together right now. My weekend was completely booked with my Bro-in-law in town plus a B-day party for a dear friend. Today I got a very short-term freelance job, so I put my time into that instead. Sigh. It's coming though!

Tiffanny
ps. HI PENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watercolor - Jennifer Anastasia and Tennyson

My friend Jen and her cat Tennyson.

Well, I've been working on a video tutorial for my watercolor techniques and philosophies. Unfortunately AfterEffects doesn't accept the format that my camera spits out. So I have to import the files into 3DSMAX and render it to a file that AfterEffects recognizes before I can cut the video together. But rest assured it will be up soon! I've always liked teaching. I took advantage of my little sisters when they were kids, sitting them down and lecturing at them. Poor dears. :) Now that I'm somewhat acclimated with watercolors, I feel that I have a few things I can teach. I guess we'll see how it goes. I've never been taught watercolors OR how to teach. This is allllll going to be new.

Until tomorrow,
Tiffanny