Body in Motion

Ink is one of my favorite mediums. The very thing that makes it intimidating is appealing to me. It's unforgiving and immediate and forces me to draw with confidence. This can either go terribly wrong or wonderfully right. Body In Motion is a class i'm taking this semester where we only do poses up to 10 minutes (usually we stick around the 3-5 minutes range) of live models in ink and wash with brush and pen. The result is immediate, expressive renderings of people. The following I was pretty happy with.

Promo Assignment.

I'm been a fan of Robert Kirkman's walking dead comic for a long time, and like a lot of tv watchers out there, also of the series on AMC. But my heart will always belong to the comic. Mainly because it's more about the human condition dealing with the zombie apocalypse instead of it being about the zombies and the gore which can be appealing but not as rich of a topic. Which the AMC tv series is doing as pretty well. Especially in the last season's episode, "Clear". Wow.

One of the characters that has fascinated me for a long time is Michonne, the mysterious outcast and badass mistress with a sword.
So here comes along an assignment in class where we are to do a portait of a fictional/non-fictional character and I couldn't pass it up.

Here is Michonne rendered with love. Hope I did it justice.
Oil, with acrylic underpainting. 14"x20"