Framing Up A Palm Tree
Tag Archives: artistic process
Study Time
It’s not spring break for everyone.
Man with Two Dimensional, Tilted Head
I was surprised when I finally looked at the paper, after creating this drawing, looking only at the subject. I was hoping to foreshorten his head; he was leaning forward and away from me. However, I can’t help seeing the head as a flat plane tilting away from me when I look at this sketch. […]
Discussion Quartet
At first, I could only see the back of the head of the man on the left. I began the portrait of the woman adjacent to him as I saw her: obscuring the man. The third man, the one next to that woman, was looking straight at me, so I reverted to gathering visual information […]
Woman Waiting with Mask On
Sick people who wear surgical masks in waiting rooms are very considerate. They help prevent others from catching their illness. They also help stealthy artists who do not sketch mouths well.
Stacked Up Along the Wall
This line up was a perfect opportunity to practice my (mostly) blind figure drawing. I did look at the paper to reposition the pen and to insert detail in some of the portraits.
Sketch of Giant Clouds Dwarfing the Landscape
I thought I could do justice to the photo I took the other day (Giant Clouds Dwarfing the Landscape) with a pencil sketch. The middle ground of the sketch came out the best. I captured the contrast between the white fluffy clouds in front of the gray face of the huge cloud. The gray clouds […]
Lady Drawn Too Short
I sketched the lady below immediately after the sketch from yesterday. Somehow the odd spirit of that drawing transferred to the one below. My blind drawings of profiles seem to be better than the ones I compose while sketching normally. I started this one too low on the page and decided to continue the fiction by […]
Giant Clouds Dwarfing the Landscape
The scale of the clouds attracted me at first. Then it was the depth. There are dark grays in front of lighter grays; whites abutting grays; hard outlines against the blue sky and misty whites that dissolve. A recreation of this scene in pen or pencil would be a good way to expand drawing skill […]
Layers of Clouds
This is the completed sketch from yesterday:
