Life Drawing- Dr. Sketchy's Philly (SEPT 2009)

these are some more life drawing doodles I diddled at Dr. Sketchy's Philly a couple months ago. I went with my talento mofo friendsos , Matt Zitman and Ivy Boersma.

5 minute sketch. prolly my fav of the session.

5 min

10 minute sketch. really trying to force the depth.

5 min. the model WAS actually balancing a sword on her head for us to draw. pretty cool. the moderator of the session challenged everyone to include a woodland creature somewhere in the pic. that's why I included Mr. woodchuck, look how much fun he's having! weee! :) Then the models voted on which on they like most and Matt Zitman won! and got a cool prize.

20 min.

40 min, I think? there were 2 models posing, I decided to take both poses and sorta morph them in a weird way. the last 2 were longer posses but I tend to overdo it and I like the faster ones better, less overworked and forces me to get to the point more and make my statement.

these were each 2 min poses. I have fun doing these

this was a 5 minute pose, but the challenge was that everyone had to draw with their left hand (or non normal drawing hand) I thought it was a lot of fun. again, the models voted on which one they liked best and again, Zitman won! he was 3 for 3 that night!

to see more sketches from other people at this session including art monkey of the month winner, Matt Zitman's winning sketch click HERE!

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I'm working on the last batch of park sketches from Dorney during the fall, there's some of my favs in that batch. will post them soon! also, some pics from November's ISCA caricature con I attended. I didn't really draw that well again and only drew a couple things but had such a great time.

random thoughts. movies--best movie I've seen in a while is 500 days of summer. a quirky anti-romantic comedy, clever and fun. in the vein of punchdrunk love or eternal sunshine, which are two of my favs.

caricature- Kim Martel socket nose! Katie Lawter hair! Katie face mixer! Mike/Brieann face melt! Lauren sushi cupcakes! (AUG 2009)

*11-10-09* so I guess I exceeded my photobucket bandwidth. pics will be back up on the 12th. then I'm going to move pics to another account, sorry about that, folks! gonna start moving a few pics so at least there's something to see in a bit...

*ALSO, if you want to see some caricatures that are a bit older (still updating with newer ones) check out my deviant art page at http://chrischua.deviantart.com/

1. This is the soccer playian kickassian, Kim Martel, and fellow caricature artist at Dorney park. I, on the other hand, am a kickASIAN, heh. This is the second caricature I've done of her- I drew her last year. I like it enough, but still feel like I could have captured her mouth better and I tried something with the background elements that didn't quite work out. Oh, I just threw myself in the reflection in her eyes. Kim has taught me to be careful not too give my goldfish too much water to drink or else they might get bloody noses ;P

2. Flora Robertson. a first year caricature artist that is tremendously talented. and there's my good buddy, Matt Zitman, again in the background, being all Zitman-y. oh and check out the awesome caricature demos in the background- drawn by my other good buddy, Alex Clare, and googley-eyedified improved by Matt and I, hee hee.

3. Katie Lawter. Another 1st year caricature artist that has some impressive skillage. this caricature literally took me forever. seriously, it was more like fiveever. hooray for bad puns, heh! I started over a bunch of times. I missed on her eyes too. oh well, I'll get her next year.

4. Jeff Muniz. airbrush artist and all-around good dude. eh. I missed on likeness but I like some of the lines.

5. another of Lauren Miller. this one was done really quickly. I seem to always draw Lauren really creepy, haha, even though she's like the sweetest girl ever. ha ha, one day I will draw her supa cute.

and here we have awesome "sushi" cupcakes that the aforementioned lovely, Lauren, made for us. she put swedish fish and rice crispies on top. left to right: Alex Clare, Lauren, Matt Zitman, Meself. I love our employees!

6. Katie Stahl. 2nd one of 2nd year caricature artist. I was seeing how far I could push it. I like aspects of it, but don't think it quite came together as much as I had envisioned.

7. Kate Santee. a 4th (or 5th?) year caricature artist. She's also a very very talented artist. She does some great character designs. 1st one I drew of her. I missed on her eyes. I liked the hair.

8. This is my friend and caricature artist, Mike Dias and his cool girlfriend, Brieann. I had an idea and went with it. not sure how well the likenesses are but I think it's kinda fun and really enjoying trying things like this.

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cool music to check out- MoZella

in the vein of Lenka/Lilly Allen/Adelle. fun catchy, checky it out. the whole album is pretty conchristantly good. you can listen to all of her new album on her myspace here

My Marvel interview for "Strange Tales #3"! + 2 preview pages! comes out Nov 4!

Hey folks! Marvel comics interview me about the short I wrote and illustrated for "Strange Tales #3"called "Suenami Cupcake!" They just posted it on their website at www.Marvel.com! you can read it HERE! Some of it might bore you as I tried to be serious to get across some actual information...but I did try and throw in some of my usual silliness :) thanks to Sean T. Collins for the interview!

*NOTE! the pages they posted in the interview that I drew for some reason the colors are WAY whacked out, I think they didn't switch over to RGB (the proper format for viewing color on the web) when they posted it. I mean the colors ARE really whacked out, but it's even too whacked out what they posted, heh. so below is more like what it looks like*

Check back as I'll prolly post some behind the scenes extras and explain some things! :)

and here's the cover to look out for when the book comes out next week! Nov 4! and more info about the book at Marvel.com's website! here

or on my other post on my blog here