Aquatic Humanoid Character

Last Saturday's life drawing session led to a series of caricature and character design studies based on our model. It took close to 30 sketches ranging from 2-minute poses to 20-minute ones. I started the session with the usual ten small ink pen sketches, followed by four 5-minute ones. After two longer poses, I felt comfortable with playing with proportions and searching for a character design.

A key advantage to working small in my sketchbook has been the ability to take on the overall stance, proportions and other details multiple times during long poses.

This final design was completed in Adobe Photoshop using the original sketch as a foundation. Imagined her to be a muscular swimmer with plenty of insulation and buoyancy. Something about the model's profile and facial features made me think of someone proud and somewhat aloof. (That might also explain her nudity.) The name just popped into my head as I wrapped up the digital phase. Fun study.

Quick Draw SF @ F8

This month Quick Draw SF is a week later than usual. Join us on Thursday, February 23. The theme is "Love Beyond Valentine's Day," a look at what you hold most near and dear to you. 

At the event we will have a merch table with work from our featured artists; prints, zines, pins, stickers, original art, and more. We'll also be doing the raffle: prizes include SFMoma tickets, Flax gift certificates and other random/awesome prizes.

Featured artists include:
Brie Spiel
Zachary Sweet
Eugene Young (ME!)
Yesenia Gonzalez
Alexsandra Chelini
Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh
Jamaica Dyer
Matt Harding
Casey Desilets
Jaide Marchand
Jilliann Silva
Diego Gomez
Alex Sodari

Paint Pens Collective x Never Ending Radical Dude
present “QUICK DRAW SF”
Curated by Shayna Yasuhara and Jason Furie
Location: F8/1192 Folsom, San Francisco, CA 94103
Date: Thursday, January 19th 2017
Time: 6:00 - 10:00pm

Bay Area’s Paint Pens Collective and Never Ending Radical Dude present QUICK DRAW SF! A monthly live drink and draw event co-curated by Shayna Yasuhara and Jason Furie. Each month, ten artists are selected to come draw and sell their creations on our “art wall” available on the cheap. Everyone is welcome to come draw, so bring your sketchbooks!

Happy hour specials in full effect!
Music by DJ 11am
21+, **FREE EVENT**