Kurt's Sketchbook

The Structure of Man progress

2008-12-17T22:32:00.000-08:00

This image is the result of the first 19 videos of the Structure of Man series.

Bad day drawing of the Bryan Building

2008-12-16T10:40:00.000-08:00

I drew this picture when I was having a rough day in studio. I just walked out and went to Yum Yum's. After finishing my hot dogs I did this one of the Bryan building. You meet the coolest people at Yum Yum's.

Landcape Sketch

2008-09-28T22:26:00.000-07:00

This is a doodle from class. It's nothing fancy, but it's the first time I tried the scrubby technique for the tall grass that I learned from Nadia. The masonry turned out kinda cool as well.

Family Sketch

2008-09-28T22:22:00.000-07:00

This one is from a while ago when I was at the beach for a family reunion. It is my family playing cards from across the room.

Ninja Sketch

2008-09-27T22:16:00.000-07:00

Girl From Drawing Class

2008-09-27T14:02:00.000-07:00

Room Sketch in 5 Point Perspective

2008-09-24T22:33:00.000-07:00

This is a five point perspective sketch I did late one night with a piece of dental floss as a compass. This perspective adds a very interesting effect, it's definitely something I will experiment with and try to develop.

Alcohol vs. Drawing

2008-08-26T13:38:00.000-07:00

This was an experiment to see what affect alcohol has on drawing ability. While I can't say it made as profound a difference as I was hoping, it did make it all much more fun. Beer wasn't the right choice, next time shots should do the job nicely.

More Figure Studies

2008-05-09T16:41:00.000-07:00

2008-02-20T14:33:00.000-08:00

I don't really like them much, but Chart-Pak markers are fun to play around with. Jake showed me a few things about line weight on these, so they became a lot more valuable because of the lessons they represent.
I have taken to doodling during lengthy lectures, this being the product of one such occasion.

Angry Drawings

2008-02-20T14:28:00.001-08:00

I would say that I was very angry when I drew these two, but that just doesn't quite do it justice.

Birds

2008-02-05T20:45:00.001-08:00

These are drawings for one of my group sessions in Patrick's history and theory of architecture class.

Stuff while in class

2008-01-31T21:46:00.000-08:00

Picture for my mom

2008-01-21T17:50:00.000-08:00

This was a picture I did with prismacolor pencils. Originally it was in my five year old sister's coloring book, but I persuaded her to give this to me. After finishing it I gave it to my mom, it usually is above her sewing machine. I have the coolest mom the the world.

2008-01-15T12:50:00.000-08:00

This is a picture I did for my friend Kate.

A little bit of the South Point casino in Las Vegas

The thing about this one that I like is that I tried a different approach, rather than just going with lines, I started shading and built it outwards from there. I just shaded myself a blob on the paper and kept building until it looked like the drawing here.

practice sketches of eyes

This is the boarding gate at the airport for my flight to Las Vegas this past winter break.

The best stuff happens at night.

2007-11-29T12:41:00.001-08:00

These were drawn from reference photos. I tend to do a lot of figure studies because I am trying to learn do draw the figure from imagination so while these did turn out alright, it feels kinda like I cheated when I drew them. The one at right was a much cooler pose than the image shows. That one was a real bastard to get right for some reason, I don't think it came out well at all.

a "professional" after cleaning his mark. I am planning to add some dramatic shadowing to it, but not quite sure how to go about it, so I didn't want to risk the drawing to experiment as it came out really close to how I wanted it.

Yes, these were done while the rest of the world slept......even the people in China.

Pinup Doodle

2007-11-15T09:44:00.001-08:00

This one very closely resembles some of my earlier sketches. I did not plan on this but the pose just kinda fell together that way...weird. This one is a little more PG though.

2007-11-07T22:57:00.000-08:00

Old forgotten drawings

2007-11-02T07:06:00.001-07:00

The way the hoplites in the back are lighter line quality is key to the depth of the drawing I think. It worked out much better than I was expecting.

Another Random Sketch

2007-11-01T12:23:00.001-07:00

More Random Drawings

2007-11-01T11:37:00.000-07:00

Crime Noir Stuff

2007-09-04T22:46:00.000-07:00

The way the light spills out of the open doorway is cool I think, it worked out well.

The bottom drawings are just old ones inked with dramatic shadowing.

"We have ways of making you talk..."

2007-09-04T22:45:00.000-07:00

2007-09-04T22:35:00.000-07:00

This is one of my all time favorites, I love how clean the lines are, and all the empty space left on the right side of the page in my sketchbook. I just couldn't bring myself to finish it

2007-09-04T22:34:00.000-07:00

Boredom at it's finest

2007-09-04T22:25:00.000-07:00

I did these while taking a very boring and dry class on computer networking.

2007-09-04T22:21:00.000-07:00

Figure study 1

2007-09-04T22:17:00.000-07:00

This is when I started toying with how to draw human figures, and god they are hard to do

Rifle with too much stuff on it.

2007-09-04T22:14:00.001-07:00

This is really what I was going for when I started drawing what wound up being the hand study below. (look closely and you can see the erased drawing over which I drew)

Hand Study

2007-09-04T22:12:00.000-07:00

Skulls Doodle

2007-09-04T22:09:00.000-07:00

I did this one a long time ago in high school, I think it was done on the back of an assignment handout or something.

My Personal Sketchbook

2007-09-04T22:07:00.001-07:00

So here are alot of the little doodles and drawings I have done, most of them are not complete, sorry there. This is more what I wanted to do with my IARC blog.