Man, three weeks of this! I tried drawing today’s sketch on my phone using Sketchbook Mobile. My wife has a stylus she got for her iPad, so I used that. The results are…amateurish, to say the least, but I think it’s a matter of getting used to the way the stylus interacts with the touchscreen. Anyway, I’ll have my regular art supplies back tomorrow, so it shouldn’t be a problem again.
Late post. I’m sorry. We had a tacky Christmas sweater party. Things were fun. Anyway, here’s a picture with a dude wrapped in Christmas lights, because why not.
It’s been a much too busy day, and I accidentally left all of my drawing supplies at school. This was drawn in my Moleskine journal with a regular gel ink pen, no pencil sketch, so it’s a little rougher than usual. As it’s my sister-in-law’s birthday, I figured I’d do a quick little portrait of her.
I have trouble drawing hands. Or rather, I’m never particularly happy with the way hand I’ve drawn come out if they’re not just curled into a fist. I’ve been trying to work on that, so today’s sketch is a bit of hand exercise (keep those filthy thoughts and comments to yourselves, folks). I’m also trying to get better with forced perspective, because trying to improve just one skill at a time wasn’t enough of a challenge, apparently.
Anyway, I’m not 100% happy with the way today’s sketch turned out. I think it’s the legs (yay, something else to work on).
I usually draw pretty small. I mean, everything I’ve been posting in these daily sketches fits on a 3″x5″ index card. So today’s sketch is an effort to start thinking bigger. It still fits on an index card, but it’s a close-up self portrait. I also inked this one using a brush pen instead of my usual gel-ink ballroller. I’ve always been fascinated by the variation in line width you can get with a brush pen, and I’ve been trying to learn how to use them for awhile. I think I’m starting to get the hang of it.
Bored in a staff meeting. Here, have a bonus sketch.
One of my favorite tropes is the gunslinger who has fallen on hard times and become the town drunk. Of course, then he goes and takes up the gun again to fight evil or whatever. It’s great. I do kinda love westerns.
We’re entering our third week of sketches. Today’s is what I imagine goes through my students’ minds as they sit in class, attempting to learn on a Monday morning.
Spent the weekend doing things with my in-laws, so I thought it’d be fun to do a quick little sketch of them. Less, my mother-in-law really has Kramer hair. It’s true.
Sketches From Memory 