Friday, March 16, 2007

Funny faces

I want to start drawing from life more. It's fun, and feeds my brain with new ideas.


Here's a couple doodles of people from the bus, and a drawing of the model from my work's "drawing session" this morning. She had this funny grimace-smile that I wanted to capture.
The colors on the first one turned out awful because I started out trying to paint him in bluish light, but that failed so I changed it. I need to experiment with other types of lighting, though.





































24 comments:

Goro said...

wohoo these sketches are awesome mate! Lots of character!
Love the grin I guess you captured it perfectly!

Jose Darias said...

Very funny sketches , i love your style dude ,..

congratulations , and i see u in my blog man!

Kevin Keele said...

I agree that you should draw from life more often because these are awesome. I like how they each kind of look like there's a vacuum just out of the frame sucking them up. It makes for fun shapes and nice composition.

Mark Behm said...

I love the girl's face. And the light on the bottom guy with his shadowed eyes is fantastic.

Dillon Thompson said...

What amazing exagerations. I swear every one on the buss looks like this. UTA represent!!

Andrew Glazebrook said...

All superb !! Love the bottom guys lips ! The girl pic is great too !

S.T. Lewis said...

I love the exaggeration in these... unless that's what these folks really looked like. If that's the case, way to find the freaks. I LOVE the top one! What a great, stylized character. Always impressive, Sam. You should draw from life all the time.

Tim Bye said...

Great work Sam! Really impressive stuff!

sedyas said...

Very inspired work. Quality!

Ron Jensen said...

Those are some really fun designs Sam.

Kellie said...

You have great design sense Sam. love your work!

Kactiguy said...

great stuff. I really like the model one.

superguy said...

Great Stuff Sam always like seeing your art thanks for sharing in a place I can see it and be impressed by my cool inlaws.

Ryan Wood said...

Positively fantastic work, mister!

Shane Olson said...

Good grief your stuff is great! Bottom guy is my fave.. those colors just sing to me... and the shapes make me laugh. Go bus people go!

GhettoFab said...

all of these are great! hahah that top one rocks!!Think its that toad throat that I can relate to! ( I better get on the exercising )Fantastic shapes on em all! Thats why youre my hero

tatiana blanco said...

Good style, very creative!!!

Alina Chau said...

THese faces are awesome! Love the exaggerated features!

Oliver Chipping said...

These rule sam - I love the big guy!

joonasjoonas said...

amazing! just amazing. How long does it take you to sketch one of these?
The grin is superb!

David Malan said...

awesome shapes

Sam Nielson said...

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate all the comments here.

Joonasjoonas: The sketches probably took 10-15 minutes each. Then painting over them probably took about 30 minutes.

Nathan Lindsay said...

these are great sam. I love that chubby guy -the design and the colors.

marcobucci said...

This is great dude. You got such strong planes in your stuff. Even on the girl, where the construction is more soft. REALLY solid drawing.