Wednesday

A sketch from the bus a few days ago.

The coasts, the coasts

Finally having a scanner at my disposal, months after the quick end to a failed experiment in sharing, I'm resuming. I was on a vacation to France and Italy recently. I wanted to use the free time to dig a little deeper into my sketching.



I got frustrated after a while. I was thinking way too graphically. My drawings had no emotional content to them, maybe because they weren't remotely situational. There isn't any sign that I'm traveling here.


A dream-vision I had, right before falling asleep, when thinking about Rafiki:


A little caricature I made of the mayor of new york giving a speech after the death of Nikola Tesla, the inventor. The mayor is reading a eulogy written by a famous author, and though he probably only knows a little about Tesla's story, he reads it with a lot of passion. The reading was broadcast over the radio a half century ago and it's quite passionate so I felt like doodling my imagining of it. Note my first ever (probably) use of a little motion blurred finger:

The last drawings I made before I burned out and decided I needed to stop drawing and pay attention to my surroundings, because I wasn't engaging my travels enough.

some gestures

A moment of analysis and correction. I started with the drawing on the right and observed tat I had essentially drawn a box. So on the left I did the same pose but tilted the box. You know. To make it slightly less boring.

while I'm not wild about any of these; this page is here because Tom Gately once described to us how during the course of the class we should fill a page with gestures, rather than get a new one for every pose, for the challenge of using the space and seeing the gestures alongside one another:



Finally, a drawing from today that I just liked. I'm not sure if it reads clearly but I like it.

A cowboy on a train

Two new sketches from bart.

A cowboy on the train



And an old man fixated on his iPhone - should have drawn him entire but his head was so round and appealing

yesterday + today

I've put up a couple of my thirty second gestures from Tuesday's class. And some sketches L and I made at a cafe last night!

these gestures are a little simpler than i usually do, and i think they read well because of their simplicity...i spend much of the thirty seconds lingering usually.



i clearly drew the head here several times in the same place. something worth being ok with on the first try:


and from the cafe yesterday night. these are done on pen on thin pad-paper - i decided i was wasting my sketchbook pages because i kept coming up with stuff i didn't like. wanted to feel like i could take some chances:


a bit of brilliance by L

I can do this if I don't drive down to Palo Alto every night

A slightly spazzy drawing that I'm fond of from the past couple days:

Two sketches done during the trip from the east coast last night. Guy in the airport:


and a lazy christmas tree star from a conversation yesterday with R and C:

More tomorrow.