Category: sketch
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drawing from photograph
five minute sketch that took 10 minutes… ink, reference drawing, 2016 update: did a reverse image search of the photo: https://www.picfair.com/pics/asleep-on-a-bench
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invite
designing an invite for a pool party. first version was fine. graphic. but I wanted something with a little more personality… so I quickly doodled this. clearly I don’t know what a shark looks like, but the drawing still felt more fun. I really like the little guy on the left. looked at a lot…
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sketchbook astronaut
sketchbook astronaut from photo reference, apollo 12 training, 1969 update: this was my 200th post!
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sketchbook page
sketchbook page. taking notes and writing down quotes from articles and videos i read and watch over the course of a few days. drew the iss from photo reference. ink. highlighters for color.
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save the date
hey! these save the dates I did for friends just dropped into the real world, so I can show you the artwork now 2016, digital
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rocky outcroppings
its weird, but the more i draw, at speed while riding in the car on the interstate and highways, an almost elemental visual vocabulary emerges… tight squiggles for faraway trees. broken billowy lines for clouds. craggy lines for distant mountains not landscapes, but landshapes…
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primitive scratches
by the time i get to big sky the drawings slow-ly slow-ly slow-ly become not as awful as when i started try to capture the wisp of chairlifts highlighted against tree-darkness as they zip downhill
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montana sketches
traveled to montana and idaho and washington last week. sketched in my sketchbook with an ink pen while looking out the car window. tried to capture the grandeur of the landscape as quickly as possible. sometimes the grandeur of the landscape also included cell phone and radio towers.
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impasto calculator
more impasto sketching – my favorite calculator – the casio fx-6300g inaccurately portrayed in digital
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impasto spider-man
more practice with kyle t‘s impasto kit. in his tutorial he recommends using the impasto sparingly, but i went whole hog. spidey is purple because i was painting late last night with flux on and I thought he was red. i like the purple though