Tarantella

I've been working on a dance for a little while, set to tarantella music, about encroaching fear & suffocation. Was struggling a bit to wrap my head around it so I thought I'd draw some poses that I thought represented it well...

Peter and the Wolf

Tried drawing some poses from "Peter and the Wolf", using choreography from the ballet I've done of the story for years. I'm hoping to try doing the same thing but with the figures less human-like. Baby steps.

"Die Another Day"

Die Another Day

Another self-portrait. This was also taken from a dance image. I think it could be a lot more dynamic with more exaggeration, rather than being a very literal illustration of the original image.

"Trapped"

Since I started getting back into drawing, I've been doing a whole lot of figure drawing using the 30 Second Drawing tool at posemaniacs.com, which I've found really useful. Starting out I did mostly 60 second drawings, and over time have been getting more comfortable with faster ones.


But this isn't one of those figure drawings; I've also been doing one or two portraits using reference photos for each figure drawing session I do.


This particular drawing is the first of a few self-portraits I've done so far. The original image is taken from a video of a dance rehearsal for a contemporary piece I performed called Trapped. Did I mention I'm a dancer?