I normally carry a pencil sharpener with me when I know I’m going to sketch. It usually isn’t necessary since my drawing implements are nicely pointed most of the time. Imagine my dismay when I sat down to make a group portrait and discovered that the point of my pencil was gone! It looked like […]
It is difficult for me to make interesting sketches of people in profile. In sketches where the scene includes more context, I get good results with a vague outline of a person’s profile, paying more attention to the rest of the image. I think I could have done a better drawing today if I focused […]
Only a few more weeks before we shut the doors. I’ve never outlasted a firm at which I’ve worked. Strange feeling. I’m sure this is much more common these days than it was in my time.
I used a wash to fill in between some of the flowers of the floral shirt. I love water-soluble pencils.
It was nice to see a whole family enjoying their book finds.
It is nice to sit around the pool now and then. These people were having a very nice time.
Progress does not always monotonically increase. I like my sketch below, but not as much as yesterday’s. Still, I caught some similarities to the actual people I sketched.
I’m proud of this one. The proportions are life-like and the composition, including the chairs and tables. This couple was reading about traveling, but they look so comfy right where they are.
I was at the next table, but the two gentlemen were engrossed in figuring out economic elasticity (whatever that means).
There are only a few different poses people assume when they wait in waiting rooms. However, I never tire of figuring out the relationship between the angle of the head axis and the shoulder plane; the length of the upper arm compared with the lower arm; the relative position of the legs, et cetera. The […]
