Every once in a while, I sketch something that I’m really happy with. This is one of them. I think I really captured the silence of the moment.
Archive for December, 2008
Idyllic Christmas
Sunday, December 21st, 2008The Corner Pub
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I love street scenes. But it’s cold, so I don’t expect to do much of this until spring. I was on my way to do a little Christmas shopping. A foot of snow had fallen during the day, and I just couldn’t resist snapping a pic of the scene so I could draw it when I got home. This is a thumbnail sketch using a Pilot G2 gel pen.
Boxes
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Boxes are surprisingly hard to draw accurately. Their simplicity is, I think, half the difficulty. It becomes easy to fall into the trap of drawing what you think a box should look like instead of what it actually looks like.
The individual boxes look OK. But I think I’ve got the perspective a little messed up.
Messy, Messy
Monday, December 8th, 2008
OK. I admit it. I didn’t make the bed today.
But I did draw.
I’ve felt that my drawing style has been too stiff, and I wanted to do something very loose — almost scribbling. As it turns out, this technique is called “scumbling”; and it was a favorite technique of mine back in the day.
I had forgotten about it until it just came out of my pencil today. It more or less “just happened”. I was getting tired of smudging my drawings, so I decided to hold my pencils more like a paint brush. The result was a very loose, almost out-of-control sketch. I really had fun with this.
Once again, my perspective and proportion are off. The bed is a queen-size, but you’d never know from this rendering. And it looks like the footboard is narrower than the headboard. Still, I feel like I’m making progress.