AnneMarie

Life sculpting...part two

2007-04-04T17:58:00.001+01:00

Second effort...

Life sculpting

2007-03-22T16:10:00.001Z

mmm, in spite of my great intentions, it looks as though my blog updates will be a monthly affair... thanks for reminding me to put this up Ed and for the use of the camera :)

Sean, Will and I tried life sculpting a fortnight ago... so here's some pictures of my first attempt - 45 - 50 mins. Not being experienced, I approached it in a very haphazard fashion, first moulding a large chunk and seperating out elements to form the limbs, then pulling off the arms to work on the trunk. I then tried a sort of segmented idea, where the head and arms etc would be attached at 'joints'. I made the mistake of staying in the same spot and really only worked on one side, having roughed out the pose in the clay (well, nylon reinforced 'newclay') so plan to do a lot more running around the model and plan to sketch from a few different angles beforehand.

All said, it was really fantastic fun, utterly absorbing and intense and a complete rush! Can't wait to do more...in fact am heading down to Wapping for a day's life drawing on Saturday and we've kindly been granted permission to sculpt there too ;) Let me know if any of you guys want details... it's a great class and only £10 for he whole day, 10 am to 4 pm.

For those who asked, there was a head, and I spent far too long messing around with it trying to capture a vague likeness only to destroy it when attaching it to the model... a real learning curve ;)

Gesture drawings

2007-02-19T18:49:00.000Z

Some life drawing... mostly quick gesture sketches, 30 sec to 2 mins...

Pirate clip1 - Pirate on watch

2007-02-15T13:17:00.001Z

The first little clip from a short I'm working on...a pirate film. Roughed out on paper, produced with Flash. Blink and you'll miss it!

Rodin Exhibition - October, 2006

2006-11-05T22:49:00.000Z

The Rodin Exhibition, held in the Royal Academy here in London, was breath-taking. Such a sensitive capturing of women... really stunning. A very popular exhibition, the only times we could get when booking were for 10am on a Sunday morning - and all four of us made it on time - present were Sean, Will, Ed and I.

Here are a few sketches, though none in anyway do justice to his statues, which positively brimmed with life. A must see if you can at all!

Life drawing

2006-09-04T14:18:00.000+01:00

A few life drawings...

Random

2006-09-02T22:20:00.000+01:00

Studies

2006-09-02T22:16:00.000+01:00

Sketchcrawl - British Museum

2006-09-02T22:09:00.000+01:00

Sketchcrawls - the zoo

2006-09-02T22:00:00.000+01:00

I've started going along on sketchcrawls in the last month or so... great fun and a good way to motivate yourself to spend more time drawing ...

Here are a few of the results:

More animals...

2006-09-02T21:52:00.000+01:00

Animals

2006-09-02T21:47:00.000+01:00

faces

2006-09-02T21:35:00.000+01:00

...and a lovely Cambodian lady we spent six hours with sharing the back of a pickup truck with from Aryana Prathet to Siem Reip in Cambodia... along with about ten others and their bags of food produce, chairs, random bundles. Roads which were impassable in anything less than a 4x4 certainly put Irish roads in perspective :) Amazing how much one can communicate with no shared verbal language.

First reel

2006-08-21T17:05:00.000+01:00

First reel... am about to cut a new one... know what I want to put on but I just need to get around to it. Pretty busy at the mo ;) This is my first reel... pretty ropey in places but a learning curve. It's 2d and Flash animation.

Introduction

2006-08-07T21:01:00.000+01:00

This is the first of maybe many posts... well, I've good intentions about it anyway ;) Currently I'm living in London, having just finished a post-grad in Character Animation and am seeking employment. All is well... and I've taken up life drawing again which I love. I've just reboarded the next short film, which I'm going to do with Barry. It's a pirate film... should be between one and three mins.

Ankle still painful but down to one crutch so it's doing well. Could be worse... but it's climbing weather!!! So frustrating not being able to climb, or cycle or even walk with all this time...ah well.

Right, so starting a work exp with Sliced Bread Wed., looking fwd to it. Life drawing tmw, few other bits and pieces on, Wed eve meeting Karen to go to a short film festival in the V&A... not been there in a while so looking fwd to that too. Life good.