Metropolitan Museum of Art drawings

The Met is such a big museum and with every visit I find new sculptures to draw. Here are a couple of drawings from last weekend.

Zebra

I've been enjoying using  white charcoal on black paper for drawing. I was thinking of what could be the next thing I draw in that method and my husband suggested a few things and the zebra idea stood out to me.

Portrait of my friends

Two of our good friends got married last June and I wanted to make them a wedding card. I always enjoyed drawing and painting portraits but time was running out with this one. I searched on Facebook for a good photo of my friends. In the end I wasn't able to give them the card on time for their wedding but I was able to give it to my friend as a Christmas gift.

Drawing at The Met

I realized I didn't post any work for 2015, so this year I will start by doing more art. In order to start the year right my husband and I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to draw the sculptures.

Dinosaur Painting

I wanted to practice and start painting using Photoshop and the first thing I saw was my dinosaur candle holder on my coffee table. I thought the shape and style of the dinosaur was interesting and a good object to practice painting. Here is a semi final version of my dinosaur.

Maroon 5 Album cover contest for creativeallies.com

I love Maroon 5 and when I found out about this contest for creating an album cover I couldn't pass it up. The cover had to be inspired by the new album. "V", and had to use your own original artwork.
My design is mainly inspired by the song "Maps". I chose to draw a woman whose dress turns into a design that represents a map. Also the back of her dress forms the roman letter V for the title of the album.
A lot of the songs are about love, a significant other, and about heartache; because of this I chose to draw a woman who is looking away from the viewer.
Please take a look at my design and vote for me.

Here is a link to my design:

http://creativeallies.com/creations/7324/contests/980/create-artwork-inspired-by-maroon-5

Hand study

I was looking around for a pair of hands to draw and I found a very nice photo on Pinterest of these hands. I really love how you can see a lot of the wrinkles and details in this aged hand. I'm always trying to get better at drawing hands even if its from a photo. I find it to be a good exercise to draw them from both a live model and a photograph.