Kat Johnston

Tag: man

  • Sketch: Something -not- on a person for once!

    Kat Johnston – a quick line drawing… he’s adorable!

    It actually feels as if I haven’t done a plain ole sketch on paper in quite a while… though that honestly isn’t true. I think it just feels that way because the last few posts I’ve done to the blog here have been done with images of body-art with sharpies rather than… well… plain ole sketches on paper.

    Well, here is a quick sketch done today, and I can’t say that I wasn’t somewhat inspired by a earlier incarnation of Sven from Questionable Content. What can I say? He was absolutely adorable with the longer hair and the rounder nose, not that he looks any worse now… just different. I’ve been trolling through the archives from the very first of this webcomic, and if you’re not yet come across it, now is just about the right time to go take a peek. My apologies to Jeph (creator of QC) if my ‘sorta inspired by Sven’ is too similar in some respects! Just let me know if you’d like me to take it down (if you ever see this) and I would be happy to oblige.

    So anyhow, that’s about it for today. Another day forward in another thrilling week, which will most likely be peppered with calls back and forth between builders and real-estate agents and the thrilling (yet somewhat disturbing) sound of me yelling at nothing in particular because yelling at something causes more trouble than it should. More tomorrow!

  • Life Drawing / Sketch: A figure and a face.

    Kat Johnston: venturing into life-drawing this week, here’s an ‘actual’ sketch… as in, one that isn’t a cartoon.

    How’s that for a literal title? And how’s this for a proper sketch!

    I must admit that I don’t draw from actual figures all that often – I don’t really get too much of a chance to tell someone to pick a pose and sit in front of me naked for 20 minutes. The last time I did a proper ‘sit down and draw from a person sitting there’ thing was years ago. Soooo, when I found out that there is a place in Brisbane (at the Metro, actually) which has weekly life-drawing sessions, I was more than ready to drag a friend along and give it a go.

    I find it rather amusing that with a fully-naked figure sitting there in front of me, I’ve decided here and there to draw parts which really require no nakedness at all. Both last week and this week I have found myself focusing on just the face, or a hand at some point, rather than the whole. I know that I could probably get a friend to sit still for a while to let me draw their face, but I guess the glitch with that is that I’d then probably have to show them what I just drew. I’m sure that I don’t have to mention that drawing from a photo is just not the same.

    Today’s picture is plucked from my sketch-book from last night’s session. The up-tilted face and the partial figure are two of my favourite drawings from the evening. The model was absolutely fantastic for figure studies with well-defined muscles, a wonderfully interesting body/face and an excellent selection of poses, including an incredible kung-fu ‘crane’ style one for a minute there!

    So yes – if you’re in Brisbane and want to give it a go (and you should, even if you’ve never picked up a pen before), check out Drawn From Life. All you need to take is yourself and something to draw with – easy peasy!

  • Sketch: George. He’s waiting for the train. The train is not coming for George.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: This is George. He’s waiting for a train that is never going to come.

    I’m not sure if this is going to be a short post today, or a rather longer one. I think I might keep my musings on the Brisbane public transport system, the depressing crush of humanity with its buzzing need to be heard on the matter of waiting for buses, and the music played by strip joints at 3pm on a Monday afternoon to myself for this post. You might be able to expect more on that one tomorrow. Needless to say, train line out of commission yesterday equals my twenty twenty hindsight to kick in and say ‘you know, I just should have taken the bus.’

    As it is today, with numerous computer upsets and a missing spindle of dvds devoted to anime, I think it is time for me to trundle off to bed and curl up for a while: either to sleep, or to continue on with Professor Layton and the Curious Village (a Nintendo DS game, for the uninitiated). I think it depends on how soon my eyes close when my head hits the pillow as to whether it shall be the former or latter of those two options. I’ll let you know how it turns out tomorrow!