drawing jam stuff

[donpinsent]

there's another message board i go on lately, where one of the sections is called a drawing jam. they post a few photos of a particular individual (this board being dominated by young males, the subject usually ends up being a young, slim bikini or lingerie model), and everyone draws whatever the photo inspires them to draw. sometimes, it'll be a portrait drawn just like the photo, sometimes the clothes will be changed (or removed-- see earlier parenthetic remark), sometimes it's more of a cartoon... whatever. lots of variation. anyway. i've been using it a s a chance to try drawing some full-body stuff, concentrating on pushing the pose rather than the facial features, which is what i'm obviously used to doing. let me know what you think of these.





and my personal favourite:

[dmcaricature]

I love this stuff! you can sure see the animation quality to these drawings. nice and loose
exagerrated....great post

[tooned]

These are great Don.Such quality to them.

[toonMom]

Nice work Don! Very animated, it looks like you really had fun doing them.

[corky]

love the style. somewhat like another artist, Alberto Ruiz, whom I also admire.
Technical question: I've seen the blue pencil used lots, and examples of the red pencil...why is red used, and where can you get them?

[donpinsent]

thanx everybody. glad you liked these. it was fun to get away from trying to achieve the exact facial likeness for a time and do something i'm not quite so practiced at. now, though, i think i see why i did so poorly in life drawing classes in college. ;D
stoons, i much prefer the red colerase pencils over the blue, just because they have a much more agreeable consistency. by that i mean that they're soft enough to get a really nice, smooth stroke and variation in line thicknesses. the blue pencils, by camparison are kind of hard and just not as enjoyable to work with. as i think i may have mentioned before, most of the caricature sketches you guys see on here are done in red colerase. you don't see them that way because i scan them in gray tones mode.
the only two drawbacks to the red pencils are: first, they don't erase very easily; and second, because they're softer, they need sharpening much more often.
you should be able to find them in any art supplies store.

[Mauri]

Don,

Wow! These are great! I love the gesture expressions likeness etc. Aoki is awesome I am a big betty Page fan..

Mauri

[caricatures123]

WOW... I LOVE them. Their soo good. I love how you exagerrated the pics. I would love to see more!

[donpinsent]

k, here's a few more...

[Draw4You]

Don

Very Nice work. I like and enjoy how you just use the photo to bounce your creativity from. And your anatomy is great even though you have moved it to what you want, it's all still is in form. Well done Don!

Mike N.

[tooned]

Don i am such a big fan of your style.its fantastic,love em.

[dedder]

Realy cool,Don,it really is.

[toonMom]

I love what you've done here Don! They are all so animated. I especially like the chainsaw guy, very nice.

[singleservingjack]

Brilliant stuff Don, plus we get to ogle sexy girls! Genius, pure genius

[bidgis]

hey don i find it really good ! great job ! and just with a pencil !