Dr. Sketchy's Sky Candy Session!

Last night Dr. Sketchy's Austin hosted a figure-drawing event starring several of the performers of the Sky Candy aerialist company!  Great time had!  Really do need to get in more practice though, that's for sure.  These are some of the more presentable results.

Also, fun fact -- They had running contests throughout the event, one of which was to draw a piece without using your dominant hand.  I answered this by standing on one foot, drawing with the other.  Try to guess which one that was :P

At least it feels energetic, I guess?

Dr. Sketchy's -- Sky Candy Edition!

I just got in from a most unusual evening.  Sadly I hadn't had to chance to go figure-drawing for awhile due to this or that, but tonight's Dr. Sketchy's was too tempting an offer to pass up -- A special session held with an entire team of aerialist performers at their studio downtown!  What I didn't expect was that they'd all be modeling poses in the air at once -- Sometimes in paired-poses.  Holy cow, figure-drawing overload!  Most of the poses held for only 5 minutes or less, so it was a scramble to just scribble down everything I could.  I worked mostly in Sharpie-marker, kept things simple & gestural, and broke out pencil for just a couple of tighter drawings (one of which I gave to the performer it was based on; sorry)

Fun fact -- The pencil drawing I've included here actually won me a free class in aerial-acrobatics :D  Looking forward to that, and hoping I don't get cold feet before I can make it happen!

They had some running themes going through the session -- This one was for "Best Incorporation of a Mythical Sea Monster."

Near the top-left you can see the original sketch I based the pencil sketch off of!

Top-center is some pretty abominable cropping |:\  Gotta pay better attention to that.