This is not a traditional sketch, but rather a recording of the vibrations that the airplane made as it went along the runway. I drew a line a (more or less) a constant rate across the page, turning as I ran out of space. I made notes when the plane turned and when we finally […]
More scribbles in this sketch. Frankly, as negative space, it doesn’t work here (it did work yesterday). If it were patterned (like the space in ‘Night Sky’ by Van Gogh) it could mean something. However the not-quite-random pencil mark of the background tell more about the artist than they convey about the subject of the […]
I’m not sure why this sketch is scribbled. I must have had a lot of energy. Maybe I was trying to destroy the image. I do like the shadow the pencil strokes created on the left side of the face.
I used a .35mm point ink pen for this sketch. The paper was a bit textured which accounts for uneven-ness. It was hard to control the width of the lines in this exercise. I like the dash of orange of the traffic cone.
I sketched these faces while watching ‘The Giant Claw’, a science fiction movie from the 1950s. This was an exercise in sketching quickly. If you ever see this movie, don’t hold your breath for the long awaited look at the Giant Claw.
One’s mental attitude sometimes dictates creative decisions.
Past planning for the future.
I overdid the bulging eyeball and under-did the arched eyebrow, but I think astonishment carries through.
