Figurative Concepts Friday: Clothed Figure - April 27th

Figurative Concepts Friday - April 20th

Women in Camera and Lighting Panel

BAWIFM and SF State University's Cinema Collective co-hosted a panel on Thursday April 26th with female directors, directors of photography and cinematography spoke about the industry. An excellent panel with excellent guests.

From Left to Right: Moderator Laura Valladao, Director of Photography Sophia Constantinou, Cinematographer Jessica Fisher, Director of Photography Kate Lin Ariz Mendi

From Left to Right: Kate Lin Ariz Mendi, (Excellent Panelist's who's card I forgot to grab) and Photographer and Director Van Nguyen-Stone

Left to Right: Excellent Panelist and Laura Valladao

From Left to Right: Jessica Fisher, Kate Lin Ariz Mendi,

Clothed Figure Drawing - Figurative Concepts

For last week's homework assignment our teacher asked us to choose photos from sports magazines and the internet and to draw the compression and stretch folds in people's clothing. Here's what I have:

Sketchy BART People

Interesting people on the BART.

Animation Club Sketches

Always fun to draw the people in Animation Club.

Frank and Anthony

Brandon and a guy who's name I do not know yet.

San Francisco International Women's Film Festival

Tonight marked the final evening of the San Francisco International Women's Film Festival. I volunteered in the office every week, working with executive director Scarlett Shepard. I had the opportunity to see "That's What She Said" written by Kellie Overbey ("The Good Wife," "Law and Order: SVU") and directed by Carrie Preston (Arlene on "True Blood"). Friendly, lovely ladies and funny film. Check out the link here - it's an official selection at Sundance and it will be released in theaters this fall.

Here are some sketches from the Q&A:

And here I am with Kellie and Carrie:

BAWIFM Mentor Meeting Sketches

I attended the BAWIFM Mentoring Event co-hosted by the Women's Film Institute yesterday. It kicked off this year's 8th Annual San Francisco International Women's Film Festival, an event I have been volunteering for since February. I'm looking forward to the films and enjoyed hearing the panelists. They discussed what it's like financing and creating their own films, how to work effectively as a leader of a project, being a woman in the field and the importance of assembling a team. As Windy Borman, director of "Eyes of Thailand" stated - "hire slowly and fire quickly."

Top Left - The Sign Language Interpreter

Center Top - Filmmaker and Historian Lynn Hershman Leeson

Top Right - Associate Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University Martha Gorzycki

Bottom -  Creative Consultant & Film Commissioner Ami Zins   

Top Left - The second Sign Language Interpreter

Center Top - Ambika, BAWIFM's Moderator

Top Right - Director Windy Borman

Bottom - Pixar Story Manager Ryan Lynch

From Left to Right - Ambika, Ms. Borman, Ms. Gorzycki, Ms. Lynch,
Bottom Left to Right - Ms. Zins, Ms. Leeson

Millbrae Library Sketches

Here are the people I drew at the Millbrae Library for my Figurative Concepts class. I am amazed that only one person realized I was drawing them. People do not pay attention. Good news for sketch artists like myself.

Animation Drawing Workshop

Last Friday we had an excellent model pose for the Animation Drawing Workshop. Here are my 2 and 3 minutes sketches.