My submission for Sketch for Change:
I’m only decently happy with how it turned out – there’s something slightly off in the shape of his head, but I had to get it out today.
I bought some of those tiny Strathmore packets of watercolor paper (about 2.5″x3.5″). This one is micron 02, gouache, and watercolor. And (as you might be able to tell), I finally got my scanner back. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do colors as well as I’d like it to. I suppose no modern technology translates colors as well as I want them to. The original of this is a little bit more blue, a little less green.
The Bell Tower at Michigan – a structure that I seem to be drawing a lot these days. Micron 01, uniball, and watercolor.
Some people at a lecture I attended by photographer Steven Pyke last Friday.
Hagia Sophia, done from a photograph — one of the images I had to learn for my medieval art history midterm. Micron 01 and watercolor, although I’m still not sure of how much I like the coloring.
Cool new blog that I came across: http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/.
I always seem to be hunting around for other draw-ers, perhaps some terrible form of self-validation. And procrastination.
One of the subjects for Medieval art history. Micron 01, gouache, watercolor. The Vikings built these incredibly slender ships so that they could travel up rivers instead of being confined to the coasts. This particular one, though, is a burial ship. The Vikings and other Scandinavian tribes sent their dead out to sea on elaborate vessels into the great beyond. Kind of like Boromir in Lord of the Rings.
Micron 01 and watercolor.
Very, very old apples. I didn’t even want to take them out of the refrigerator to draw. And now I don’t want to touch them to put them in the garbage. So they’ll show up again, I suppose. Micron 02, gouache, watercolor.
Micron 01 and watercolor. I like how it seems as if the spider were crawling out of the spine of the journal. I need to do work across the gutter more often.
My bathroom sink. A la Danny Gregory. Micron 02.