I found some old sketches

I'll hopefully have some new work to put up soon, but in the mean time I found a few old pen and marker sketches from undergrad, when I was going through otherwise empty sketch books. I really need to use markers again, they are really fun.


After having brought around a sketchbook/journal for my spring break in Spain in 2008, and doing several drawings per day in it, I decided I wanted to do the same when I went to Nice for a the weekend. Unfortunately, this is the only sketch I got around to doing. It's of Plage Mala, the first beach of the weekend. For full immersion, play "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira on repeat for hours, because that's what the boat in the corner was doing. The sketch was done in micron pigment pens.



I probably drew toward at the end of sophomore year, in the spring of 2007. Possibly early junior year. It was in an old sketchbook I used for notes in an anatomy drawing class. Basically just a few quick marker sketches at the outside (read: free) part of the Boston Aquarium. Done with micron pigment pens and gray Prismacolor markers of varying opacity.



This was done around the same time as the previous sketch. It's from some random day when I was walking around Boston and decided to draw a duck from the Public Garden.

I'm not claiming these are great sketches, but I'm always excited when I find old sketches, and wanted to post something.

And here's some newer stuff...

Here are some work-in progress sketches so far from my anatomy illustration class. They aren't finished, but I wanted to post something new.

This is a drawing of the muscles the anterior compartment of the left thigh, and also including the femoral nerve, artery, and vein. The cut muscles are, to the left, the sartorius, and to the right, the tensor fasciae latae. I have a lot of clean up to do on this.


Then I recently started this drawing of the right kidney sitting in the abdomen, trying to show the attachments of the renal artery and vein, and the ureter. Still have a lot to do on this one also.


There will be more to show when these and other projects start wrapping up in a couple weeks.

Smithsonian Sketches

This Friday the first year students in my program were taken to the Smithsonian Institution Naturalist Center in Leesburg, VA for the day to relax--before Anatomy class starts--and sketch from the animal specimens they have there. The Center itself is not all that big, but there are so many types of animals and bones and minerals to look at that it was pretty overwhelming. Anyways I made several sketches throughout the day:

The first drawing I made was of a skull of a Smilodon californicus (sabre-toothed tiger), which I picked both because I was still used to drawing bones from the hipbone project, and because I really like prehistoric animals, a lot. This probably took about 40 minutes, and is done in pen.



Next I drew a few much quicker sketches, probably about 10-15 minutes each, if that. They are of Martes foina (beech marten, top), Colinus virginianus (northern bobwhite, left), and Ondatra zibethicus (muskrat). All done in pencil.



After those I felt like doing another long drawing, so I drew an armadillo because they have really interesting anatomy (and they're related to the extinct glyptodons, another prehistoric mammal). Drawn in pen, and shaded with graphite.



Lastly, I drew one of the two giant polar bears they have on display. This one stood probably 8-9 feet tall, and was really impressive to look at. Another quick pencil sketch.



That's all the sketches I have, because I spent a lot of time mesmerized by the collection. It was definitely a worthwhile trip.