The January meeting of CAPS featured Stephen Silver showing off the new app for artists that he and his programmer partner Johnny Byrnes have developed. We had quite a turn-out for this evening, many of the folks being first time guests. They’d heard about it online and being followers of Stephen’s they turned out in force. Made for an interesting evening.
The first part of the evening was Stephen’s presentation. He’d brought his primary model, John Tucker, along with him, because the latter part of the evening would be a session with John posing for us to do sketches.
Left to right: programmer Johnny Byrnes, model John Tucker (in pirate garb), artist Stephen Silver
Stephen demonstrated the apps he had designed, and showed many of the poses John had made for him. John is very expressive, not just in the poses he strikes, but also with his use of his hands, and of course his expressions.
Stephen’s demonstrations of aspects of the app were impressive. In addition to all the still poses, the app includes instructive short videos pointing out elements of the pose, everything for the lines and twists of anatomy to the way drapery hangs on a body. It was fascinating stuff, and made me sorry I didn’t have a smart phone or table yet. This was great stuff. There’s an app of male poses and one of female poses – both reasonably priced, it seemed to me. They certainly cost less than most pose books, and there are a lot more pictures – because Stephen made a point of getting a variety of turn-arounds for nearly every pose.
After the presentation, he raffled off 6 free downloads of the Male app. My friend Jim MacQuarrie, who likes to complain that he never wins anything, won one of the apps.
Jim wins an app
After that, we reshuffled the chairs into a big circle, and John set up shop to start posing for us.
John sets up for modeling
After that, it was an evening of sketching away. But I’ll make a second post of all that.
