The young gentlemen November 16, 2009

taking a break from their crime spree:

Ampersand from across the room

Interro shamelessly offering his belly up for rubbing

Ampersand moved around while I sketched, resulting in a third arm

I can’t believe I’m still drawing the cats November 10, 2009

In my defense, they do keep sitting in my line of sight.

To the tune of “Journey to the Heavyside Layer” November 9, 2009

I never saw the musical Cats, and I don’t think my ex-boyfriend A. did, either, but whenever he wished to evoke the show (which—I can’t explain why one might do this, but, trust me, it came up more than once), he would sing, to the tune of what I have subsequently determined is the song “Journey to the Heavyside Layer” from the show, the following lyrics:

Cats, cats, cats, ca-a-ats,
Cats, cats, cats, ca-a-ats,
Ca-ats, cats cats,
Cats cats cats cats!
etc.

So, if you know the tune, you should sing it along while reviewing these sketches.

DrawMyCatsMo continues November 4, 2009

Interrobang gets a warm lap, I get my drawing done. Everything works out very neatly.

Cat as French curve November 3, 2009

Aaaand this is my other cat, Ampersand. Just to be fair.

Cats (and bunnies, and guinea pigs, and lots of adorably rotund little furry things) have these wonderful curves that make me just want to squoooosh them. But today, instead, I drew them.

And then I squooshed him.

Interrobang is skeptical about this DrawMo! thing. November 1, 2009

I promise I won’t draw the cats every day this month—for one thing, it doesn’t look like they’ll stand for it—but you may see them quite a lot. What can I say? They’re captive models.

Happy DrawMowe’en! October 31, 2009

Yes, it’s that magical time again—DrawMo! starts tomorrow.

I’m somewhat overwhelmed with graduate school—hence the belated warning about impending DrawMonstrousness—so founding DrawMonaut Margaret (who came up with the name!) will be helping run the show this year. Thanks, Margaret!

Anybody thinking of doing a special project this year, like Elizabeth’s Hand Drawn? I’ve got kittens now, so I may just do thirty drawings of those. They’re fun, especially for gesture drawings, as I learned when I got a head start on DrawMo! in September:

Who else is in?

Today November 26, 2008

In class today we had a visiting speaker from the New York Times who sat while showing us their website. This resulted in some interesting contortions, such as cross-body mousing.

Yesterday

I sat outside my bank and started drawing the scaffolding in front of me, and then the stuff behind that.

Gone but not forgotten November 18, 2008

Sorry I haven’t been around—what a bad hostess! I have been trying to keep up with the drawing, though. Here are a bunch: