Last one of the year at the PDS last night...my head hurts today

Changing Gears

Two charcoal portraits of the same model. A 2 1/2 hour drawing from July 2009, and a 20 minute drawing from November 2009.

Quadruple-Sekhmet

Quadruple-Sekhmet, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

PDS_PortraitClass_051109-1

PDS_PortraitClass_051109-1, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

One from last term

Charcoal, not pencil

Nathan Fowkes artist

http://nathanfowkes.blogspot.com/

My day job is at DreamWorks working in photoshop so I spend as much time as I can outside or at home in the studio sketching with traditional media.

Some varied drawing, painting and digital work in this extensive folio.

PDS_PortraitClass_221009-1

PDS_PortraitClass_221009-1, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

A little background

aaand another...just can't find models these days.

A few portraits...

Hetty, 10


Pre-raphaelite model from the Princes School

Grumpy 5 year old

Recent Moleskine sketches

MSK_230709_039_big, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

A new Moleskine and back to the pencil..

Portrait archive

Wikipedia "liberated" a large chunk of the National Portrait Gallery's archives.
The're 10 days over NPG's removal deadline at the time of posting, so if you want them, get over there quickly!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:National_Portrait_Gallery,_London

James Jean does Spacey

James Jean poster drawing for 'Shrink' starring Kevin Spacey.
http://twitpic.com/8pat7

PDS Portrait 250609 3

Looking for a more satisfying way (for me) of recording light, dark and mid-tones, here a more confident busting of white.

PDS_Portrait_250609_2

PDS_Portrait_250609_2, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

very pleased with this one. Half an hour and lots of movement in the marks.

Self-portrait

Charcoal, chalk and Acrylic Titanium white on Sugar paper.

James Jean gets sexy...

http://iconology.therndm.com/archive/james-jeans-analysis-sasha-grey-explicit/205

PDS_Portrait_040609

PDS_Portrait_040609, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

After a couple of weeks of turkeys, this happened. Pretty chuffed :)

PDS_Portrait_230109

PDS_Portrait_230109, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

A2 Charcoal on cartridge paper.
Another fave from James Lloyd's Drawing a Head class @ Princes Drawing School. Spring term 2009

Barry-PSD12-06-WebFolio_big

Barry-PSD12-06-WebFolio_big, originally uploaded by AsaMedhurst.

(Barry) A2 Charcoal on cartridge paper.

The peak drawing of a week intensive with Ivy Smith at the Princes Drawing School in December 2006.