Dynamic Pete

3/7/19 Pete (2-min. poses)

Last week’s dynamic model at Gage’s life-drawing session was Pete. (He was also a portrait model at Gary Faigin’s workshop, but sitting for that class was about as static as you can get.) Like many of Gage’s excellent models, Pete also models for DigiPen, a Seattle-area game developer, where game animators are required to practice their drawing skills on extremely short poses lasting seconds, not minutes.

While these two-to-five-minute poses must have seemed downright leisurely to Pete, I appreciated the creativity he used (including props he brought) to give more realism to his actions. Drawing him was pure fun.

3/7/19 Pete (5-min. poses)

2-min. poses

5-min. pose