Sketch of the day: itty bitty portraits and Nordic hippies

on March 16, 2012
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I’m losing track of which pieces from the Big Project I’ve already posted. These were some tiny drawings from old photographs that eventually became part of the proposal for the project. Since I don’t have my scanner set up yet tonight, I’m poking around through some old scans for a sketch of the day. Blast from the past! Or something! (Why are there blank boxes? Don’t ask….)
itty bitty proposal
And then there’s this thing. I belong to a writing group, and occasionally I run out of words and scribble a scene instead. But it’s an opportunity to draw Nordic guys with long hair, which doesn’t come up a lot in Herculaneum.

Elves and spaceships

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Sketches of the day: May 2011

on March 11, 2012
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Just drawing what I could see...Last May, surrounded by my pen horde but unable to draw a comic, or really much of anything except feet, I challenged myself to do 10 drawings of ANYTHING every day. An object on the table, a character from a French comic (Lou! by Julien Neel, Kheti: Fils du Nils by Dethan & Mazan), more feet. This lasted about five days.

I only posted a handful of pencil drawings from that attempt, to show a comparison of fancy pencil brands. In the current spirit of posting the stuff I was planning to throw out, here’s most of what I drew last May.

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Sketch of the day: draw horse

on March 10, 2012
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Might have turned out better with red ochreMaybe the cave paintings were just sketch-of-the-day scribbles by cave-people testing out their latest order of crushed red ochre and charcoal from Jetpens.

Or maybe I didn’t know how to draw a horse with a brush pen.

These are more scribbles torn out from the notepad earmarked for scribbling and tossing away. 1) I needed some practice drawing Spendusa, 2) I was grumpy, 3) there is cat hair all over my sketchbook.

The Kuretake No. 6 Double Sided Brush Pen is a thicker brush than I usually play with, so I was mostly just trying to figure out its quirks (and get them to interact with my quirks):

a bison, and I think some greyhounds.

One of these looks like a horse. One might be a bison.



Back to that Palomino Blackwing 602 pencil:
Felix was not in my lap. Too bad.

I need to get out and find more things to draw other than what's in my lap



Light grey Kuretake Pocket Color Brush Pen—I feel safer when my lines are very light and can hide on the page (until I wantonly photoshop them into view, that is):

The sketches started out looking like Damon, so this is an improvement

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