It finally feels like fall in California. Cold, grey and even a bit rainy. You can tell from my sketches because they move indoors: two coffee shop sketches this week, both at places which are serving coffee in festive red cups. Already??
And a small little pumpkin sketch.
Some sketches from my weekly figure drawing session.
Also, demo sketches from the ‘Capturing Chaos: Drawing a Crowd” workshops I taught this week, in Berkeley and in Los Gatos.
Here’s my usual ‘sketching the sketchers’ sketch of the participants in my Los Gatos workshop.
Oh, and one last piece, a small study of my hand, done as a “notes-to-myself” study of light and shade. I find that drawing+writing notes in longhand is what works best for me when I’m studying. Not typing. Not making mental notes. Actually, physically writing them down, even if I never read them again.
And of course, practice, practice, practice till I learn to see what I’m looking for and draw what I see. What works best for you?
Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 
First of all, I adore your artwork. I could look at it all day. Now for your question: I’m a kinetic and visual learner, so I retain information best if can I physically write it down and see it. Sometimes, if I know there’s a lot of information about to come my way, I feel as if I can only think properly while holding a pen or pencil in my hand.
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Eve, that’s me too, put a pencil in my hand and I can think, design , plan, because I can diagram it 🙂
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Exactly! Now I just wish that WHILE holding said pen or pencil, I could draw as amazingly well as you can!
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These are lovely 😃 so cool to be able to document all of your progress!
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I recently went back to school, to study nursing, and I think that the last year´s drawing practice has changed the way I best absorb new information. I have drawn a lot, particularly during the anatomy course: skeletons, muscles, etc. I think following your blog (and other urban sketcher´s blogs) has expanded my brain! 🙂
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wow, Viktoria, that’s amazing. Good luck with school, and I hope you still find time to draw, even if it’s only in anatomy class.
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