figure sculpture – tambourine dancer

Posted on September 23, 2014 by courtneytrowbridge

I’m not sure what it is with me and tambourine dancers BUT I LOVE THEM. Sort of a mash-up of Esmeralda and Arabian-ish dancers (I WISH I’d had time to sculpt a goat and a better base, but I take six classes per term).

This is the fruits of my laborious and awesome class with John Brown at Gnomon – first time doing an entire figure (and my other experience only includes two heads and one torso done ages ago in polymer clay). I am sort of a terrible photographer, so I plan on getting my boyfriend to help me take better ones with his knowledge of lighting and whatnot, but at the least here is something to see! It’s a 20″ sculpt in plasticine fully armatured (with telescoping arms). I’ll try to get around to also putting up a montage of some progress shots to show a little more of how it all came together.

I want to do more and get way better! And stop giving my girls beefy knees.

If you want to know more about John Brown I highly encourage you to google him because he’s the bestestestest.

Here’s also an inspiration sketch…

skeleton toast

Posted on September 23, 2014 by courtneytrowbridge

I love drawing skeletons! I hate drawing skeletons! Definitely skeleton-ed out (and then I had to draw muscles over top of it, yeesh).

A toast to king skeleton and his skeleton mistress!

Costume drawing final

Posted on September 22, 2014 by courtneytrowbridge

Here is a very Sky Doll-inspired costume design I did for my final project in Costume Figure Drawing with Charles Hu (at Gnomon – wheeee! very fun class!). It’s a mash-up of evil queens, Renaissance/Elizabethan, Chinese wedding headdresses, sci-fi and such and was a preeeeeetty awesome open final project.

If you’re not familiar with Sky Doll, it’s a fantastic Franco-Belgian comic by the amazing team Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa BUT Marvel also translated it into English. If you like comics with amazing art and colors, then I think you might like it.

Moleskin sketches

Posted on September 21, 2014 by courtneytrowbridge

Some recent sketches from my moleskin, etc (and some really terrible margins on those scans!). I have a big thing for sketching with red pencil.

mermaid time again

Posted on January 5, 2014 by courtneytrowbridge

They never get old.

Sketch from my sketchbook was cleaned up and recolored in Photoshop, then colored away! Honestly, the anatomy positioning of the mermaid is total crap (sooooo wooden), but it was fun to color and I still like how it came out.