New Drawing Video!!!! This time at Century City Mall In Los Angeles

New Drawing Video!!!! This time at Century City Mall In Los Angeles

So I went to see Mission Impossible this past weekend at the AMC Century City. 'Twas' a cool movie! Afterwards I created my own festivities by drawing people right I front of the theater. The video shows a small section of the drawing session however it was a good session. I recommend drawing in public places to anyone interested in Building Confidence in your drawing skills. 

You learn how to draw people who are moving, ways to approach proportion, perspective, likeness, and lots of other great stuff. Drawing in public is a true multi-vitamin, nutrient dense with learning opportunities. All of the above topics are covered in my eBook "Drawing ToolBox" available at this link:
http://dawoodsketchs.blogspot.com/p/store.html

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Digital Drawing People At The Cafe - Demo Video

Heres the demo video of the image in the last post. It walks you through my process of sketching and painting in Adobe Photoshop.

Character design from creative figure drawing

Untitled

18 x 24
Ink & watercolor on archival paper

This is a character design that became one of my Creative Figure Drawing sessions. Creative Figure Drawing is a practice used in the fields of illustration, animation, film and others. 

I used the live, nude figure model as a structural basis to build my design upon. The way in which I draw and Teach Drawing, using the Direct Line, makes it a fun and wondrous process to imagine into the design of the drawing without have any prior planning or previously conceived ideas of the outcome.

This drawing took about 25 - 30 minutes to draw and detail. This is only a light pass at detail. If I were to take this character design further, there would be more layers of detail conceptualized and add. However in a Creative Figure Drawing session you are able to pen & brush up an idea the move onto the next post and design. With the proper approach to drawing you can create lots of designs in one 3 hour session.

If you'd like to learn more about Creative Figure Drawing, sign-up to my mailing list (top right of this blog) I where will be revealing tips to HELP YOU DRAW more FREELY and BOLD.

Reportage Drawing in San Francisco/ One Day Workshop - session 1

This workshop aims to focus on loosening up and drawing complex scenes with energy and expression and without hesitation or fear. During this workshop you will learn various methods, techniques, tips and tricks for how to effectively and boldly draw buildings, cityscapes, moving people and cars. We will also be drawing while riding public transit buses and trains. I will be doing lots of demonstrations to show you how I draw on public transit vehicles.

This is for beginners who wish to develop confidence as well as the advanced who would like to break out of a rigid routine and draw more loosely. 

We will be drawing on-location in various areas of San Francisco, riding trains, streetcars, buses and doing some walking.  To view more details and purchase a ticket click the link below.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/683431

My first self-published book...

My first published book of drawings is here!!!
I'm so thrilled to have this finally completed.
Purchase a copy!

Dawood Marion Drawings of Random People Vol. 1 by Dawood Marion 

I stay drawing people...

Drawing of a guy at the coffee house. Both are the same person. I went in on the drawing with markers to pull out the cool shadows.

11x14
Ballpoint, Marker in sketchbook

Drawing portraits

Last week a couple of my students asked me to draw them. This is what came out of that session.

New World Leaders
11x14
Ball point pen in Sketchbook

This is my good friend Bola Thompson. She was drawing me as I was drawing her.

Bola
11x14
Ballpoint pen in sketchbook

Drawing on the train commute...

Drawing people and bikes on the afternoon train ride home today.

end of the day
Ballpoint pen and gouache
8.5x11

We all drew each other day...

Today I had all my students draw each other. I was requested as a model also so I had to draw someone in order to sit still long enough to be drawn. Lots o' Fun Fun FUN!!!! 

The people below are folk on public transit

My latest "filled" sketchbook (Video)

Took about  a month or less.

The Black Woman Collection (update)

Another portrait of Jessica Porter

Deeper Though...

More drawing people on the transit.

Bola

I drew one of my students as she drew the plants.

Inauguration of Mayor Jean Quan at Oakland's Fox Theater

Inside the Fox Theater in Oakland at the Inauguration of Mayor Jean Quan. Jean is sitting at the center of the table directly behind the speaker.

The inside of the Fox Theater in Oakland. Love the Aztec / Mayan feel of the interior design.

Muni drawing

Reportage Drawing done on Muni Transit # 71 (Haight St.) in San Francisco.

Ballpoint pen and watercolor
18 x 12

Something to cry about series

Girl looking out window
Ink and Ball Point pen
12 x 9

2 People waiting at Powell BART (subway) station in San Francisco
♥♥ Something to cry about series♥♥
BallPoint Pen and Ink
12 x 9

Reportage Drawing In San Francisco

I went drawing with my friend Avy Jetter in San Francisco today and hung out in ChinaTOwn. So much fun and lots to see. I have to go back soon. Here I am drawing in an alley way in Chinatown, This drawing was done with:
Pen and Ink
Ball point pen
Artist Avy Jetter filmed did the filming.


STCB means "SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT"

Drawing hands again

Drawing on the Train

A sketch of a lady on the train coming back from L.A.

Ballpoint Pen in Sketchbook
12 x 9

Back at it again...

Back at it again...


Elderly Asian Woman on Transit Bus
Ballpoint Pen on paper / Digital
12x9