Watched 'Sketches in Line & Wash by Jeanette Gurney' on the Youtubes, was inspired to try painting with a watercolour pen over some ink sketches of vulture inspired dinosaur-like creatures. Over the years I have drawn a great deal in pencil/pencil/etc, sculpted in water/oil clay, but for whatever reason just never really got into painting with physical media, just digitally. Overall I am liking this combination of ink and watecolour, really forces me to commit to an idea.

Hey All,

I wanted to do a thorough shoutout to my sculpture and drawing tutor and friend Mikhail Pertsev and his atelier Art Classes Vancouver. I stumbled on his atelier's flyer 7  years ago at drop-in life drawing in Vancouver. Learned a lot here and drank a lot of tea. Thought it would make a good blog posts. 

There are a lot of artists in this area due to the film and games industries so I am hoping this might help more people find the studio.

Ecorche is a study of a cast by Houdon, still a WIP.

Sculpture of Yanni

Quick study of Yanni for relief sculpture project.

This is actually a sculpt of a different ear from David.

At a second James Stewart workshop, again trying to find a hybrid between both teacher's recommendations.

Sculpted at James Stewart's workshop, attempted to use both teacher's techniques/theory.

We start with studying a cube. We draw a plaster cast as accurately in perspective and proportion as possible.

Hi All,

Folks have been encouraging me to try Artstation Blogs as an opportunity to start sharing more works in progress and shorter projects. 

I am sculpting an African Lion while I take a break from a longer term project. There is a long way to go but I am happy that I picked it back up. The sketch was started in 2016 and was quickly abandoned in order to devote time to the long term project. Worked on it briefly a year later, then abandoned it again for 2 years.

The original plan was to model the Lion in order to groom and texture it. That may come at some point but the model needs a lot of work. It is a semi-ecorche at this time, all the muscles are too sharply defined. I am unfamiliar with feline anatomy and have overdrawn it to help me understand. I plan to blend it away with fat and flesh and the elasticity of skin over time but there are still a lot of anatomy and design issues to solve. Plan to resculpt the veins, for now these are placeholder.

Just discovered that one of my favourite sculptors is also working on a Lion sculpt. It is looking fantastic, really inspiring.

My compulsive file saving in the form of an animated gif:

So much left to do. The likeness still needs a lot of work, and there are a number of anatomy issues to figure out before I start removing the harsh transitions between muscles and muscle groups. Still very much an ecorche-like state at this point.