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Tag Archives: people sketches
Happenings this week
Wet-in-wet watercolor + drawing people. Always makes me happy. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, Uncategorized
Tagged coffee shop, location drawing, people, people sketches, shape, tree cutting, urban sketching, watercolor
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Back to small sketches
Little sketches from last week. Continue reading
Kauai: the little stuff in between
Little sketches that don’t really fit any big themes. People on vacation. Lots of flowered dresses and plumeria, real and fake, tucked behind ears. See those phone numbers at the bottom of the sketch above? They’re numbers for doctors. My … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Travel
Tagged chicken, hawaii, hula, kauai, location drawing, luau, music, people, people sketches, rooster, urban sketching
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Last week in small sketches
Working on large projects, especially when they’re approaching deadlines means you don’t get much other drawing done. That’s when I am really glad I have a book to sketch small, quick sketches in. There’s always music practice to sketch. My … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Figure Drawing, Paintings, san jose, Silicon Valley, Summer
Tagged cello, figure drawing, location drawing, music, people, people sketches, portrait, skull, urban sketchers, violin
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One hundred people: a roundup
My biggest takeout from this week of people sketching is that to keep drawing people, they have to be more than just figures and anatomy to you: you have to be interested in people. And you have to enjoy the inevitable interaction that the process involves. Otherwise, people will remain “stuff you add to a scene to give it scale”. Continue reading
Day 1, #oneweek100people2017
Day 1 of #oneweek100people2017, a few highlights Continue reading
Nutcracker in the Dark
Sketching the Nutcracker. In the dark. Continue reading
