Gavin THE Thomson

It’s now Monday and I think I have finally recovered. Myself and a team of comic nerds drew pictures for kids and not so kids from 9am to 4:30 pm. Was a frantic exhausting kind of fun. I certainly don’t think I draw my best in this kind of situation – having someone waiting/watching while you try smash something out in 5-10 minutes does not make a great mix.. does make/force you to stop being pedantic over every line you draw. So in some ways you get things better and in others not so much. In any case fast and as recognisable as what the person wanted is the call of the day and its a free drawing ! There was many characters I have never heard of and many I had (SO MANY DEADPOOL’S 0_0 ).

I am ALWAYS surprised at how happy people appear to be with the drawings you give them. This year I took quick pics of most of my scribbles. So I have 31 scribbles pictured and I know a few I did not photograph all of them so I did maybe 38ish pics.. so in 6 hours of drawing I think I was averaging 10 mins a drawing. I am certain my recent study into drawing the human head helped pin down a vague head shape in quicker time.

Thanks to all the drawing friends (Emmajean, Katie, Sam, Alice and others), thanks to ImpactComics for supplying us water and drawing materials and many thanks to all the people that came out. Hope you got some nice free comics and checked out some non-free stuff :)

    -Gavin the did not draw all the day after Thomson

The study has been very good working from the skull up- I have certainly learned a lot and can see a lot of more of my mistakes more clearly. Here are some of my last less crappy stuff.

Gavin THE Faceless one Thomson

Gavin the expressionless Thomson

Lady with Hat

Last week I to the ‘Dr Sketchy’s Canberra – Tom Roberts’ event at the National Gallery – which was fun. It’s been a while since I have done the fast life drawing thing.

I forget how intense and exhausted your brain feels when battling to scribble out something in under 2 minutes. I even got a ‘Models favourite picture’ award of Chris the sheep. Was a fun night of scantily clad ladies, impromptu sing alongs and sexy sheep. ‘Waltzing Matilda’ will now have a much more raunchy tone to it in my mind then it ever has.

Gavin THE jolly jumbuck Thomson

Hi, This week was practising of drawing the differences between the male and female face. Mainly comes down to a combination of the size of the keystone (the area between the eyes), and the jaw. Otherwise you’re pretty much just falling back to relying on observation and general shortcuts of making the male face more hard and angled and the female more soft. Here are this week scribbles. Gavin…

Hi again- thanks for heading back, This week – more skull like shapes but now with head muscles. I think my skulls are looking a little better which helps with the face ‘not looking like a squished potato’ thing. Apparently muscles only have a very minor affect of the shape of the face but helpful to know for expressions.  Here is some attempts and a video! Gavin the not buff face Thomson    …