Just added some splashes of color here and there. Maybe add a couple of things, but this is what is looks like right now.
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I really need to study, but I just got caught up doing this. I've been doing this so fast that I'm not sure if it looks good. I do know that it's fun. Right now, I'm slapping everything together wet on wet, Copics on ink on pencils.
And to get some focus, I started doing this thing I did on Kaleidoscope where I sort of make a bunch of random brush marks with my ink. It still blacks out areas but adds a little bit of energy and interest. Beginning some progress on a gift (hopefully) for our King of the Prarie. Sorry for the terrible scan, but my scanner is a little too small for this paper. After about 45 minutes, this is what it looks like.
Here's something a little different. Here is a observational sketch I made at the airport last time I flew back to Philadelphia. It was late at night and these two young sisters were sleeping and leaning on each other. I still like the specificity of how the girl on the right was positioning her feet and the quick way I captured the leg angles of the girl on the left.
For the longest time, I could never do a good observational sketch. My drawing skills were so basic that it was a struggle just to make the subject not look stiff. I'm not great at it now, but I know that the point is not to make an anatomically correct drawing, but to catch and observe a moment. I mentioned in an earlier post that I need to work on textures. Well, I saw a photograph that had this hat with the tassels and had to make a drawing. I maybe overworked this drawing, but I'm happy with the result.
Every once in a while, I'll try to do a drawing in pure black and white. I saw this photograph and loved the way that the black shadow shape under the the eye socket was actually bleeding into the shape of the eye.
In January, I resolved to make a color study a day. I didn't quite make it, but thought I'd share a few of them. These are 30 minute studies of various paintings and photographs that I liked. There are paintings by Nathan Fowkes, Dan Gerhartz, Morgan Weistling, Jeremy Mann, and Dice Tsutsumi. I don't like sharing copies generally, but this is just a drawing blog, so I thought it'd be fun to share my progress.
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