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Tag: Sketchbook

  • Tuesdays at Orr Street

    Tilly

  • Tuesdays at Orr Street

    Tia

  • Saturday Sketchbook

    Helen

    Uneven line work. but I like this pairing. Two similar seated poses—unplanned.

    With a new model, I tend to go really slowly as I try to familiarize myself with the unique details of their anatomy. Sure, there’s a way to do an anonymous, expressive figure, never mind the details; but I want to be able to conjure an authentic likeness. I want to understand the true anatomy.

  • Man on the Street

    A guy I passed by on the street. Drawn from memory.

    I found my way to Shortwave in Alley A. It was quiet there, two employees, a few patrons, plenty dark. I had in mind to sketch people in the coffee house, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this guy that I had passed on the sidewalk on my way downtown.

    His mouth, shaped like a fish hook, appeared from 12 feet away to be a greeting smile, but I realized as I got closer: he wasn’t smiling. I’d seen him once before, but only once, so he was familiar and strange to me at once. I thought that my expression was warm. His was extremely neutral. No smile, no nod—just a rugged, good-looking badass pretending that I wasn’t there and it wasn’t cold as he strolled headlong into the wind on a December afternoon.

    I couldn’t figure out how to draw his unique mouth without it looking like he was smiling, so I tamed it down. H looks more friendly in my sketch than in my memory. Adding warm colors doesn’t help any.

    Digital sketch using Procreate on iPad.

  • Tuesdays at Orr Street

    Alexa

    I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately going back to basics, and my drawings have suffered for it. It’s an interesting phenomenon. Anyway, tonight was a cerebral exercise in blocking in for portraiture. Not a bad attempt, but this sketch is missing some of the vibrance of the model’s natural beauty.

  • The old days …

    Jeff Mueller and his standup bass

    The Saturday drawing sessions at MU consisted of three hours of 20-minute poses. The Sunday sessions were considered “painting” days: one 3-hour pose. Most often, it was nude models, but occasionally costume and props were included. And then there was the time Jeff and his wife, Ruth, played music for us for three hours. No, it did not take me three hours to draw this!

  • Sunday Sketchbook

    Nina

  • Sketchbook

    Bunny and the Metro Men

  • One day in 2021

    Raquel

    Raquel was our go-to model throughout the Pandemic—it was a small group of artists and Raquel most of the time. When we were gathering at all. Sometimes the model wore a mask, sometimes not. The artists all wore masks until vaccines started becoming available. No one ever got sick. Sure, a couple of us had a stroke or two, but no one got Covid-19.

  • Sunday Sketchbook

    Nina