Kobayashi Kiyochika, Rainy Night At Kudan Hill, Early 20th Century.

Some quick gestures from yesterday's life drawing class. Still a bit rusty but getting there!

Life Drawing from November 20th. Gestures and blind drawing.

Side view of the mother character from my film. 

Accidentally drew one of the McPoyles over the weekend.

Here's a character I've been working on for a long time. I need to do something with her soon..

An illustration I did for the fantastic blog http://coolchicksfromhistory.tumblr.com/ 

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Émilie du Châtelet

Art by Fiona Hill (tumblr)

Émilie is best known for her 1759 translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica.  It is still the leading French translation today.   A close romantic and professional companion of Voltaire, Émilie wrote on a wide variety of subjects including mathematics, physics, philosophy, and female education.

In 1737, Émilie published a paper on the nature of fire which foresaw the discovery of infrared radiation by William Hershel in 1800.  Frustrated by the lack of cohesion between the work of Isaac Newton and the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Émilie combined elements of both along with the work of other scientists in Institutions de Physique.  Created as a textbook for her thirteen year old son, the book was published anonymously in 1740 and soon became popular in France.  

On September 4, 1749, Émilie gave birth to her fourth child, a daughter named Stanislas-Adélaïde du Châtelet, the biological daughter of the poet Jean François de Saint-Lambert.  A week later, Émilie died from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 42.

Decided to give this inktober thing a go. Just getting used to the medium today

This is what I love about the fifties, "the future is going to be so awesome that not even nature can ruin our sexy pool party with it's snow". Also the bubble car, there need to be more bubble cars.

future home concept 1958

Five minute pose from yesterday, I managed to get a yawn in there, really fun! Coffee and china marker.