Only part of me was in shade when I drew this little scene. I had to cover my sketching hand with a napkin to avoid getting sun burned. We were lucky to have an umbrella. Some of the tables didn’t have them. I enjoyed sketching the figures at the remote tables. The trick to drawing […]
There was a cool breeze at the beach today. But the sun was unrelenting. The people at this table didn’t seem to mind, otherwise they would have transplanted that patch of unused shade by moving the unemployed umbrella. It was fun watching the people at the party; the boats floating through the channel between the […]
Most of the time waiting rooms have more than one waiter waiting. This was the woman next to the person whose portrait I sketched yesterday.
Sometimes waiting is not a passive game.
The young man in the sketch below had a very long face. He seemed very nice, smiling to himself now and then. Very handsome. His legs were very gangly but I concentrated so much on his face, they seem almost forgotten. A little sharper bend on his right knee could have fixed that.
I love the dynamic between these two people. The man has something to say and the woman is listening. One can see this by each person’s posture: the man leans forward and the woman leans back. Her legs seem to be crossed, even though only one leg is showing.
When we first got to the waiting area, this lady was the only one in our section. This sizable seating venue was a staging area: patients were called away for one test, then another; in between they assumed their perch (if still available) and wait for the ultimate call, the call from the person who […]
If you can avoid it, avoid emergency rooms on Mondays. But any time you walk through the ER doors, this is where your wait begins… (Note: one way to avoid this is to come via ambulance.)
I remedied the enormous forearm problem in today’s portrait. The most important feature in the sketch below is the delicate positioning of the young lady’s hand. Therefore, the forearm-to-upperarm ration is consequential. I’m having second thoughts about the title of this sketch. The subject’s pose does not suggest that she is leaning very hard on […]
When concentrating on individual parts of a portrait sketch, sometimes itty-bitty errors add up. In the case of the image below, the cumulative inaccuracies were bridged by the enormity of the young lady’s arm upon which her head lay. When I began the sketch, her head was gracefully touching the apex of her angled wrist. […]
