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This is a "real " zentangle . I always feel so pleased to have done it "properly"- no pencil, no rubber, no plan...just doodling with intent.
This is a pencil portrait of my mother, I was really dreading doing this portrait as my first attempt at drawing my mother was a disaster hence having to do another.
I am pleased with the result from this drawing and my mother actually likes it to which means a lot to me. Hope you like it.
May 2005. A goofy pencil sketch that I made while looking at an upsidedown drawing in the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards.
drawings from my "Communal Living" series.
part of the Freedoom show at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, 2011.
drawings available from the gallery:
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I worked to correct it with the same pen and ink. I came up the second time with a fluffy fox. So I had to start completely over. Next photo is the finished product. For now anyway.
photo of yours truly in front of an old drawing that a client made of me years ago. she called me lady di and loved my glasses ...in those days i wore pink shades with red high top shoes, and black trench coats with black and or red hats. fun times...... Josie was always a special person and her work hangs in my studio loft!
The model we were supposed to have for this session (one of our regulars, who shall remain nameless) cancelled at short notice. Fortunately Robert was able to find a replacement. Nigel has posed for the group before, but not since I joined them.
I arrived a bit late for the session, just in time to catch the last two minutes of what I think was the first pose (which would make it a 15 minute pose). Rather than start in my usual sketchbook I decided to launch straight in with a charcoal drawing on A3 paper.
I think this was a good move as this enabled me to use a looser style that worked better for what was effectively a very short pose.
Public Domain Book: Illustrated descriptive price-list of magical apparatus and illusions
Published 1884 in [New York] .
Written in English.
openlibrary.org/works/OL15737420W/Illustrated_descriptive....
Public Domain Book: Drawing made easy
a helpful book for young artists; the way to begin and finish your sketches, clearly shown step by step
by E. G. Lutz.
Published 1921
This is another drawing from a while back...I think 1994 or 95. At this time, I was submitting my work to independent press publications of the horror and weird fiction genre, in the hopes of getting my name out there. This was among the first of a hanfful of small assignments. Although this seemed like an exercise in futility, I did manage to get some stuff in print...
This drawing (and many more) now appears on my new art blog: apieceofarteveryday.blogspot.com - feel free to check it out!
Joel Bruyere is the bass player and backup vocalist for the Band Thousand Foot Krutch. I was pumped when I found out TFK was going to be at Lifest (huge four day long concert with a ton of my favorite artists) this year, and I immediately set off to find some good pictures of the members of TFK. I couldn't find many pictures of Joel, let alone good ones. I had found a few however, but they were too small and pixelated for me to jot down any details, so I settled for this one. It was a bit hard to get the light on the side of his face right next to the darker shading on his cheekbone, but I'm happy with the results. I had a bit of trouble with the eyes as well, being that Joel's eyes are shaped differently then most people I've drawn. The hair wasn't too hard, but it sure is a bit -er... unique :P I usually have trouble getting the lighting on dark shirts like this one right as well, but I think I'm getting the hang of it, cause it looks pretty good to me! This drawing took about 5 or 6 hours, a bit longer than I thought it would. I can't wait to give TFK the drawings! Well, o about 20 drawings and 6 or 7 more bands to go!
'My World'
During this project, I also explored my 'icons' as one of my chapters. As John Lennon is a big love of mine, I wanted to create an observational drawing from a photograph I had taken in a museum in Prague dedicated to John and the Beatles. I drew this using sketching pencils and worked into the sketch after with watercolours to give him an almost translucent effect.