Finally sculpting again

For a while I've been thinking about picking up sculpting again, but had never managed to find the best clay to work with. However, the other day on Instagram I saw Chet Zar busy sculpting in clay, and I noticed that he said it was called Chavant NSP Medium. A quick browse on Chavant's website led me to a place just around the corner from where I work in Cape Town called, Masque. There I managed to get a hold of some grey, medium density Chavant NSP for R250/900g.

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Helpful Links:

Simon Lee sculpting techniques at Stan Winston School.

John Brown sculpture at Gnomon Workshops.

David Lemon YouTube Channel.

Legion of the Cow YouTube Channel.

Simon Lee YouTube Channel.

Andrea Blasich YouTube Channel.

Sculpture Geek YouTube Channel.

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Below are some experiments from the past week of playing with the clay.

 

Little hand sketches.

Keeping the clay warm.

June Moleskine Sketches

Some sketches I did over about the course of a week this month. It's been cold okay, and the hearth is an awesome studio.

Some sketchbookin'

I went to Kirstenbosch Gardens the other day in Cape Town to do some drawing with my girlfriend, and a friend of ours, Juliette Bisset (Go check out her photography!). Such a super place, I really must get a Kirstenbosch card so I can go there more often!

(On a side note: Something really awesome that is currently under construction in Kirstenbosch is a canopy walkway designed by Juliette's brother, Christopher Bisset. When it is finally unveiled it should be pretty amazing. Check out pictures of it here.)

And below are some sketches from my sketchbook. I reckon I'm going to colour these first two guys below right.

Christmas Doodles

Hey guys! I hope your Christmas season has been going amazingly amazing. Here are a couple of quick sketches that I did over the past week.

And below are some observational Photoshop drawings I did whilst on my lunch break at work. Each took about 30 minutes long.

Oil Painting Classes: Lesson 1

Last week Thursday I began an oil painting class at Frank Joubert art centre in Cape Town. Its an 8 week course taught by Anne Foale. For the first lesson all that was required of me was to spend the entire 2 hours drawing a green pepper, which you can see below.

 

Below are some of the things I needed to purchase for the course. Some paint brushes, three primary colours and white, and some turpentine. The oil paints are a Winton Phthalo Blue 30, Winton Permanent Rose 49, Lukas Lemon Yellow 210, and Lukas Titanium White 208.

        

Some dubious sketchbook art

For the past couple of months or so I have really wanted to improve my female figure drawing. I decided that instead of taking the typical life drawing approach to representing the female form, I would rather fuse some landscape art into the drawings.

The last drawing here was done whilst I was at Club Mykonos near Langebaan.

A new comic project

I'm busy working on a new comic book project written by my friend at Massalo Photography. I cant write too much about it at the moment, but here are two images. The first is a work-in-progress of one of the character portraits, and the second is a character design for one of the characters.

Bringing the creepers to life.

These images were all drawn with pencil in my sketchbook, then brought into Photoshop to give them a bit of desaturated life. I prefer how the first one came out, and feel it would look good as a digital print.

Sketchbook Doodles

Sketchbook Travesties