aggressive tombo sketches on 5.2.12

Considering the model this week, I thought it would be interesting to use brush pens with my 8.5x11 sketchbook. My aim was to make these drawings look more aggressive with very liberal use of the darkest marker. It really took some fine control to get the gestures to look right. 


2 min gestures: 

5 min sketches: 

10 min sketches: 

15 min sketches: 

20 min poses: 

week 3.14.12 with tombos

I came to class this week, opened up my bag and I noticed that I forgotten my pencil sharpener! So rather than sticking with the original plan, I used the three tombo markers that I knew worked well together. The sketches aren't as detail-y like the pencil ones, but they turned out to look punchy and energetic. 


2 min gestures: 

5 min poses: 

10 minute poses: 

20 minute poses: 

an earlier experiment with tombos from 10.19.11

Tombos are pretty fun to use. I think with some of these more developed sketches, I wasn't exactly sure which color I should have used to capture skin tone. The confusion actually made for pretty cool sketches. 

2 minute gestures: 

5 min poses: 

15 minute pose:

20 minute poses: 

10 minute pose: 

tombos part II

This is another attempt at tombos, but this time I'm utilizing color. I wasn't really satisfied with most of the gestures, because it seemed like I was sketching with a highlighter. The later sketches progressed into something watercolor-y. Overall, it was a fun exploration. 

5 min gesture page

20 minute poses

 

tombos!

I've found that the tombo brush pen was pretty challenging, considering that its very sensitive towards thick-thin lines. You really need a good hand to control one of these! 

2 min poses 

5 min poses 

5 min poses. i'm trying out sketching lines and initial blocking of shadow areas. 

15 minute poses. my attempt at a three value sketch