Still Sketching

About a week ago I discovered Andrea Joseph who blew my mind. She’s absolutely amazing and she inspired me to sketch. And right before that I had watched this amazing video and I had already decided to sketch daily after that. So when I found Andrea, that was it. I just started to sit and do it.

I did this ball using the tutorials here.

then I made a bottle.

the buttons were inspired by this.

and the pens are also inspired by her:

I did one while waiting for David’s bus and then added another later.

and then I tried the shoes.

I made one yesterday and one today.

Going slowly. Just trying to give it 30mins a day and see if I can progress. I love being inspired.

April 14, 2011 | Art, SG, Sketching | Leave a comment

Sketching Angels

So, I have been sketching. I’m not sure it counts since it’s the same sketch over and over again. But here we are.

Remember this angel from last week (the page that inspired that will come in a few weeks, it’s in my weeklong journal):

I did that with the brown pencil and wanted to see how it would look with the black one:

then I did it again with graphite:

and here they are next to each other:

and then I made another one inside an old book:

then I went and bought a larger sized moleskine book cause I decided I liked large. So I bought a plain one (not watercolor) and made another angel in pencil:

then in the black marks all pencil:

and then made another one today:

and colored it lightly:

And there we are. Angels everywhere.

April 7, 2011 | Art, Sketching, Weekly Art Journal | 3 comments

Some More Sketching

Since March is going to be over tonight and since I’d “planned” to sketch every day in March and since that went out the window pretty quickly, I wanted to share with you the few sketches I did make that I hadn’t shared so far.

If you’ve seen Alisa’s sketches, you can see these first two are really trying to be like her. (Unsuccessfully, I might add.)

I love the color but the shape doesn’t speak to me in these. I can tell you they didn’t turn out like the way I saw them in my mind/imagination.

And here’s something totally different. I made this angel for my weeklong art journal last weekend and I couldn’t stop thinking about her so I made another one last night. There’s something about her I love.

more of those to come I am pretty sure.

And that was it for March. Quite sad but that’s where we are. I do have plans for April. I really really want to work on this still. I am not ready to give up.

March 31, 2011 | Art, Sketching | 4 comments

Sketching

Even though I haven’t sketched in a while, I did do some since the last post. Something simple:

more simple.

a little more complicated.

for the color ones, i first draw in pencil:

then i outline in pen:

erase, and then color:

and then here’s a final pencil one. I don’t feel it’s good but I keep practicing. that’s what it’s about right?

and here we are. That’s what we got for this week.

March 10, 2011 | Sketching | 2 comments

Six Portraits a Week – Week 9 and Sketching

Ok so, I’ve been a little sick of drawing portraits. Maybe cause they’re not getting any better, maybe cause I don’t see much change and I am bored. Maybe it’s completely unrelated and I need to change direction. Not sure. Either way. I did these two:

then I decided it was enough. I tried a 3/4 one from Tam’s lessons and a portrait one. One has a too small a nose and lips and the other, too big.

and then I decided March was going to be sketching month. I have been taking Alisa’s class and I really want to develop a sketch practice. Even if I suck. I want to at least try. So I took a good 75 of my favorite photos and I am trying to sketch one every day. Some days it’s black and white and other days it’s color. Depends on my mood. Right now, I suck at both and they both take too much time. But I am trying.

I’ve done a few in February, here’s what I have so far.

this one was mostly improvised.

i love the butterflies.

this is a photo I took in San Diego a long time ago.

I then did a color version:

then I decided I should stick to mechanical pencil:

I rushed this one:

and then today I went back to color but this took way way too long and I don’t even like it.

so there we are. i will experiment. Some days I will do portraits. some days other things. Some days it will be pencil and other days watercolor. Let’s see if I can find my way. So I will post these on Thursdays just like I was doing for the portraits for now and then we’ll figure it out as we go along.

After I scheduled this post, I saw Julie’s post on Wednesday and she inspired me yet again. And I love this article she linked to as well. Julie is often so very inspiring to me and this post was no exception. And I loved this bit from Ebert’s article:

It seems to me Annette said something like this: Begin with a proper sketch book. Draw in ink. Finish each drawing you begin, and keep every drawing you finish. No erasing, no ripping out a page, no covering a page with angry scribbles. What you draw is an invaluable and unique representation of how you saw at that moment in that place according to your abilities. That’s all we want. We already know what a dog really looks like.

something I will have to keep in mind.

Six Portraits a Week is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.

March 3, 2011 | Art, Six Portraits a Week, Sketching | 5 comments

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