Charcoal sketches

These are from 2004 , when I was working in "Valiant" we had life drawing sessions once a week . It was great , the teacher really pushed us to study the light and shade of what we had in front of us. I really enjoyed those times.

Motion sketches

These are some of the sketches I did yesterday at life drawing, I had better ones the other day but that day I forgot my camera to snap them.

It´s really interesting, the model moves creating a pattern that repeats for, I don´t know 5 minutes, and we try to capture the key moments forcing you to simplify line of action, silouethe etc.

Tommy the unstoppable

He´s not even really good at basketball , but he just goes on and on ...!!!

outdoors sketch

Manu Bover

A workmate at Keytoon, that likes to call himself... "the boss" .Sadly he´s going to live the studio and I´d like to desire him the best of lucks for the future and I really hope that he and the rest of the "bugwatch" guys come back !!

CHEERS MANU!! WE LOVE YOU!!

Life Drawing 2

Another charcoal sketch!, I didn´t post in weeks because I ´ve been real busy in the studio. I´m now animation supervisor for a 15 minute short film we are doing . We have been leaving work late everyday , really exhausting work, no social life, but now is getting better!

Hope to make it next week for another drawing session.

See ya!!

Back to Life Drawing!!

I found a great place in Valencia next to the studio where we can go to do life drawing sessions at a reasonable price!!. God , I forgot how much I love using charcoals!!

I asked to the girls in charge if we could maybe do the kind of things I used to do when I studied animation many moons ago. Quick poses , motion poses, thumbnailing. And then a longer pose to do a light/shadow study.

Feels good doing something that doesn´t force you to be in front of a monitor screen for a while.