Rats

These are the rat sculptures that are on the Lexington Ave. side of Grand Central Terminal. I believe it's a reference to the tie-lines from sailing ships when they are docked. I think they had cone shaped pieces on the ropes to keep rats from crawling up and onto the boat.
-peter-

Figure Drawing - 2 weeks in a row

I made it to figure drawing for the second week running. I had a good start with the short poses but after the first longer pose I wasn't really feeling that great. I was drawing with graphite up until that point so I decided to switch to pen and work on some semi-blind contour drawings. This was the first attempt and it worked in that it got me drawing again without worrying too much about what the actual drawing was looking like.

After the jump there are some examples of my 2 minute poses.
Enjoy!
-peter-



I like the center drawing on this page


Something about the one one the left catches my eye.

Remeber to LOOK!

So I started drawing the dude reading the newspaper but I was feeling uncomfortable because he was sort of looking in my direction. Oh, I was riding the subway home from watching the Detroit Pistons loose game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals at a bar in the Lower East Side (they lost the series). Anyway, I couldn't look at him comfortably so the drawing wasn't going so well. At East Broadway or the York stop a woman sat down with her back to me and she was wearing a strappy tank top and the straps must have been broken because there was a hair clip holding them in place. Anyway, I started drawing the clip and expanded from there and because she was facing away I didn't feel weird making the drawing and as a result I was actually LOOKING so it turned out OK.

Lesson learned.

-peter-

Also, I just saw a mouse run by the wall in my apartment. Guess I'll have to get some traps.