Life drawing again

Here's a few pics from the sunday life drawing. The model was crazy skinny!!! couldn't believe it.
So I just had to stick to super skinny drawings for gestures :D

Thanks for checking them out!

The Lyre bird

Whoa! Ok... this is real, and it's totally unreal at the same time... check it out to the end, ok? It's worth it.

More Life Drawing

Here's a few more life drawing's from Sunday... I really wasn't having a good drawing day... and getting there I spilled my coffee all over my seat and some of it went onto my paper... which gave the pad a real textured feel... threw me off completely. :D

The model was crazy. I never had such difficult poses... he tethered himself with a rope tied to a pole, and was leaning into and out of poses from time to time... great stuff :)




















And his regular poses were pretty spectacular too
























































That's all I got this time! Thanks for checking it all out!

Here's more pics of downtown. i didn't realize how much the buildings look fake :D






























And this is Grandville Island. I though there would've been nice coffee shops there to sit at and draw, but all there is is shops!

Free Stuff!!!

So I got a call from my landlord, he asked me if I wanted free stuff. I said sure! I just have a few plates and bowls and all that. He said he had speakers and a microwave too, but I really didn't expect the speakers to be giant... oh well. :D And the coffee table is pretty neat too! He bought a place a few doors down from mine, left the door unlocked so I could get in, and told me to "loot the place"... in those exact words :D and yeah... I now have stuff. :D

I just hope nothing is gonna happen to me now... like police... or mob guys... but in the mean time, I'm enjoying me new free stuff! Can't wait to throw plates at that guitar playing guy at the bus stop :D

Life drawing

Here's a few drawings I did at life drawing here in town... I don't get to draw too much any more, and it's nice to get to do some every once in a while.. all the poses are 5 minutes or less...The schedule is nice, it's 15 minutes of 30 second poses, then 1 minutes, then 2 minutes, then 5. It's comfortable.



















One from my first day there... the model was pretty great!































































My second week there. The model did the strangest poses I have ever seen... but still good... and sweaty... like, drench sweat all over the stage, sweaty... :S






































Last week's model. These poses are pretty much ALL she did. For 3 hours. It was pretty boring... but I guess it forced me to draw things that are boring. Like the model.
























































And this week's model was great. She had really difficult poses to draw... and it wasn't a good drawing day to begin with... but fun none the less...

Ok! well, there's a little something different for you guys who read this thing! Later!!

Something for all artists/animators

This kind of stuff has been said many times before, but it's always nice to have a new iteration :D

This should be called "Hey Findlay! Wake the f*3k up!!"

Every day, there are more and more Craigs List posts seeking “artists” for everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs. More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative service.

But what they’re NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.

To those who are “seeking artists”, let me ask you; How many people do you know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you need? A dozen? Five? One? …none?

More than likely, you don’t know any. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting on craigslist to find them.

And this is not really a surprise.

In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.

So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?

Would you offer a neurosurgeon the “opportunity” to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him “a few bucks” for “materials”. What a deal!)

Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?

If you answered “yes” to ANY of the above, you’re obviously insane. If you answered “no”, then kudos to you for living in the real world.

But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks?

Graphic artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such, to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes you look like a twit.

A few things you need to know;

1. It is not a “great opportunity” for an artist to have his work seen on your car/’zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a “great opportunity” for YOU to have their work there.

2. It is not clever to seek a “student” or “beginner” in an attempt to get work for free. It’s ignorant and insulting. They may be “students”, but that does not mean they don’t deserve to be paid for their hard work. You were a “student” once, too. Would you have taken that job at McDonalds with no pay, because you were learning essential job skills for the real world? Yes, your proposition it JUST as stupid.

3. The chance to have their name on something that is going to be seen by other people, whether it’s one or one million, is NOT a valid enticement. Neither is the right to add that work to their “portfolio”. They get to do those things ANYWAY, after being paid as they should. It’s not compensation. It’s their right, and it’s a given.

4. Stop thinking that you’re giving them some great chance to work. Once they skip over your silly ad, as they should, the next ad is usually for someone who lives in the real world, and as such, will pay them. There are far more jobs needing these skills than there are people who possess these skills.

5. Students DO need “experience”. But they do NOT need to get it by giving their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the experience they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is obviously the type of person or business they should be ashamed to have on their resume anyway. Do you think professional contractors list the “experience” they got while nailing down a loose step at their grandmother’s house when they were seventeen?

If you your company or gig was worth listing as desired experience, it would be able to pay for the services it received. The only experience they will get doing free work for you is a lesson learned in what kinds of scrubs they should not lower themselves to deal with.

6. (This one is FOR the artists out there, please pay attention.) Some will ask you to “submit work for consideration”. They may even be posing as some sort of “contest”. These are almost always scams. They will take the work submitted by many artists seeking to win the “contest”, or be “chosen” for the gig, and find what they like most. They will then usually have someone who works for them, or someone who works incredibly cheap because they have no originality or talent of their own, reproduce that same work, or even just make slight modifications to it, and claim it as their own. You will NOT be paid, you will NOT win the contest. The only people who win, here, are the underhanded folks who run these ads. This is speculative, or “spec”, work. It’s risky at best, and a complete scam at worst. I urge you to avoid it, completely. For more information on this subject, please visit www.no-spec.com.

So to artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a favor, ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to pay you. Whether they are “spec” gigs, or just some guy who wants a free mural on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need them.

And for those who are looking for someone to do work for free… please wake up and join the real world. The only thing you’re accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a clue.