New York City Subway Train Drawings | Breaking in a new sketchbook.

Here are a some subway drawings I did over the last few weeks. Most of these were done on the ride to and from work on the E train. That's a whole two hours of drawing each day! I go to work five days a week, that makes it ten hours of drawing time a week (not including my time spent in the studio), so by the end of this month I would have drawn for forty hours. Pretty valuable practice time! Let's see if there are any results over a long period of time.

New York City Subway Drawings of People on the Train

Native Ghost

Ghost Graphite on 9x12 paper 2012

Native Ghost Floating Through Forest, Acrylic on Paper, Alex Ariza 2012

Sacrificial Sketches

Still working out these "designs"
Currently working on a sketch that I want to blow up to a much bigger size...don't know what medium I'll end up doing it in.
Tired of planning...ready to make some moves.
Yeah, moves.

The High Priest

My friend has a shitty scanner...I should really draw in my own books.

Preparing the virgin for sacrifice!

Igor Stravinsky's music works so well when I draw these things.



Best stuff around.

What are you up to lately? Attempting Industrial Design School

I got laid off from my job on January 31st 2011. I'm not too upset about it, though, in fact, I'm very happy it happened. I now have time to work on a new portfolio gear towards industrial design. My new plan would be to get myself into Pratt's masters program and land a REAL job utilizing my talents.

The following is all the stuff I've been working on lately for the portfolio:

 It's been a long process. I won't even bother putting up all the reference I went through to get ideas for this robot of mine. I really wish my sketches looked nicer and on better paper, but I feel way more comfortable drawing on scrap paper. This piece is definitely coming together though, and I'm excited to tackle the creation of this robot. I'll probably begin next week on constructing the prototype. I have way more drawings to do, but lord knows I have the time to do it all, and that's the beauty of it.

You Reek of Alcohol

My sketchpad got soaked in beer. Can't have a better primer than that. Unfortunately it's all to waste with these incomprehensible images. Make sense of it if you can. 

I hate this one the most because it reminds me of college.

This one sucks as well.

The model was so boring I ended up drawing some of the people.

Favorite spot.

Yeah, not a fan of too much from this session. A mixture of feeling like I was back in school (model was boring as fuck) and not warming up properly lead to crappy results. My good comrade, Kosinski, actually got some pretty good stuff out of it though (like a butt load of PBRs).

I've been recording all sorts of stuff as of late which explains the delay in the visual department, but not to worry, I will have better things to show in the future.

Drawings from Third Ward's Drink and Draw

Truth be told I like to drink. Some may say that I enjoying the occasional drawing here and there. Putting the two together must be a dream come true for me right? Of course it is. These wonderful nude model drawing sessions take place in Brooklyn at a wonderful place called Third Ward. These drawing sessions have the Alex Ariza stamp of approval for great price (just ten bucks!) and unlimited PBR. The following are drawings I did from the two times I attended. The first week wasn't all that glamorous at all.

Hipster chicks look very very weird in the nude.The second week I really wanted to stop playing it safe so I drank a bunch of beers, which may or may not have helped in drawing but it definitely loosen me up. I laugh every time I see the progression of drawings after each beer.

One Beer In

 

 

 

   

 

 

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