Long October, Lots of Halloween themes

Having five weekends in October created a multitude of Halloween themed drawings. It was almost hard to come up with ideas. . .it I asked the students. That's how we came up with a snake in the cheese and Dracula's empty coffin. I'm playing a bit of catch up so I'll just post all the most recent drawings by the Club House Artists. Enjoy!

Character Fun

For our last class of the session we had some fun drawing two different creatures. A mouse in a teacup and a dragon on top of a castle tower. Both drawings required the same basic shapes to start. Foreshortened circles.

Dragons!

The Club House Artists worked hard on their 3D castles. They learned how to combine their boxes, cylinders, and cones to create more complicated drawings like the castle in the sky. No castle is complete without a dragon, knight, and perhaps a princess in need of rescue.

 

I think the Club House Artists really enjoyed this project.

 

Here's a really awesome homework.

 

Roundtable Sale

While walking into the building where we meet to draw, I noticed a row of picnic tables all stacked from winter. The first one was just placed normal, but then the rest were standing like a row of elephants on the first table. Then there were two men eating a picnic lunch on the one half of the first table. I wanted to take a picture, but it gave me an idea for our warm up drawing. Our theme was castles and dragons so for a quick warm up to practice our foreshortened circles, shading, and thickness I had the Club House Artists draw King Arthur's round table. Then we stacked as many round tables as we could on top of each other. This was a great exercise to get us warmed up for our longer drawing. The second drawing was not completed in class today. We're hoping to finish it next week and we can't wait to share. 

 One of the completed homework assignments was this Flying Dragon by M: This dragon is not one to mess with as he's flying high in the sky to capture his lunch. . .a HELICOPTER! Check out the great textures and details.