Man with Hair Parted Down the Middle Eating and Working His Phone
This is a better color experiment than yesterday’s. I also made use of the trough between the two sketchbook pages. I made it correspond with the part of the gentleman’s hair.
Tag Archives: sketching
Waiting Amongst the Halloween Decorations
Some organizations spruce up their waiting rooms during the holiday season. Halloween is an under appreciated holiday in that regard.
Young Woman with her Hair Messed Up Waiting for Her Car
This young lady’s hair was hanging over her face. I imagine this was very comfortable, since she seemed relaxed in her preoccupation. Waiting is better when one is relaxed.
Readers’ Environment
The bigger picture:
Mother and Two Point Five Kids
Taking care of children is a very tough job. But sketching kids is also tough. The more active child was all over the place. I started to draw him when he was in one position and 30 seconds later he was in another. This mother was truly in charge of a family of at least […]
Man, Wife and Sketchy Character
I saw this couple adorable couple in the waiting room. They were very cozy, and I had a long time to draw them. I even took some time to render the plant. Another man sat down next to them. He was only there for a short time, so he is just a sketch.
Woman Next to Woman Looking for ID
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.
Man Sketching at Japanese Garden
Having not had any face time today, I resorted to copying a photograph. The photo was taken during a visit to the Japanese garden a couple of weeks ago. An enlargement did not show much facial detail, so I used this sketch to practice shading technique. I used different pencils with hardness ranging from HB […]
Hair Raising Experience
Another waiting area, this time with an opportunity to observe beauty in the making. I couldn’t decide if the lady in this sketch was reading one of those scary magazines or was in the middle of some kind of treatment.
Japanese Garden
There were so many trees, each of them different: different kinds of leaves, different tones, different shadings. The sketch below is a meditation. I could have worked on it all day. The overcast lighting would not have changed the shadowing that much. I have a photograph of this scene, so I can get back to […]
