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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Drawing This Past Week


 
I'm taking a new Sketchbook Skool klass called A Drawing A Day with Veronica Lawlor. Not that I needed encouragement to draw every day; I do that anyway. But I love new klasses and this one is proving to be fun. It also coincides with a Drawing A Day with Prompts challenge. So this top drawing of my new boots in leggings for the cold in Oregon, where we went for the holidays was drawn in a motel on our way home. The prompt was "Rest".
 




Also for the klass, not for the prompt, was to use a thick and a thin line showing the front items on the plate stronger in the foreground and the thinner lines in the distance. I like how this worked.
The lemon on the right is the first lemon I picked off the tree I planted this past summer.



I continue to draw portraits on Sktchy (app on my iPhone). I love drawing Meral. She has a very soulful face and I have drawn her numerous times now. These two are my latest. They are also my new found love of Copic Markers. One of our Klassmates in SBS made a video at my request showing us how she used them for blending colors for skin tones. I am ecstatic to learn how to do this.



This third portrait was at the request of my youngest grand child, Allie, who paints her face herself.


This was my first use of Copic markers for a dark skinned fellow. I am so pleased with the results and so was he!



I continue to draw our instructors and facuty. Top Danny Gregory one of the two founders of SBS, and bottom, Morgan Green school Dean.


Top is Susan Colon another administrator and bottom is Veronica Lawlor.
 
 
This guy got drawn at a Starbucks and I used him for the prompt "Outfit".
 


Here's the same guy, for an assignment for thick and thin lines again, (before I added color to his clothing)

 
And several women at the coffee house on the same day.


One last quick lesson with thick and thin lines called sensuous lines that our eye follows in curves of the fallen cord.

I drew a lot more this week, but haven't posted them all. Might add some more later in a day or two or save them for next blog post.

Thanks for coming by. It's good to be home. I hope you were able to enjoy the holidays. We got to experience some intense weather unlike anything we are used to where we live: rain, sleet, hail and snow. Made for an interesting and very pretty at times ride home.

Happy New Year and wishing you a Creative week.

21 comments:

  1. Lovely blog Lynn! Your Sktchy portraits are amazing- love the colour and character you capture!

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    1. Thanks Andrea, so glad you enjoy what you see here.

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  2. What a great choice.
    I am impressed by these different works
    Stopping by rom " Paint Party Friday "
    This is my entry.
    Greetings from Germany

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  3. I continue to be amazed at your patience and dedication to daily practice. I love the way you take time for details such as the checkerboard all the way around the fruit bowl and the 'this way, that way' lines in a basket weave or rattan furniture. I also LOVE how you do not try to make the bowl perfectly oval, but allow the sketch to be human. That is one of my biggest hurdles to get over: needing my lines to be ruler-straight or my moon to be circle perfect.

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    1. Thanks Kelly. But in response to your words, is the moon really perfectly round and can a building be a bit askance? Try it, you may like it!! :)

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  4. I am so impressed with your digi art. I have also noticed if the writing is yours you truly have beauty penmanship. As always your art is fun and inspiring.

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    1. Nicole if by "digi" art you mean digital, none of mine is that. IT's all pen on paper. I'm glad you like it though. And thanks for the compliment on my penmanship. I am from the era when it was taught in school. :0

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  5. Happy New Year!!! It is always fun to catch up on your posts. Your portraits with the coptic markers are really nice. You are blending the colors well. Keep up the good work!

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    1. Happy New Year Joan. I love your visits here. I am enjoying learning to use Copics.

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  6. You're doing Drawing a Day — you'll have a lot of fun with it! Happy PPF!

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  7. I love your first, second and fourth portraits the best! They are full of life and color! I just bought the sketch copics for my daughter and she loves them! Happy PPF :)

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    1. Thanks, I am glad you like them. Try the copics. I bet you like them too.

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  8. Quite a collection..love your granddaughter's portrait. Super work on the portraits with Copic markers. I'd think they'd be difficult to shade and blend with but you've proven me wrong. You are certainly an inspiration to all of us "wanting" to draw something a day. Cheers-

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    1. Thanks Darlene. You'd love the Copics too! I think you draw quite prolifically as well, no?

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  9. I love Meral and knew it was the one you'd drawn before...just beautiful...love the handsome dark skinned fellow...excellent with the copics. I have some but have never known how to use them properly. Happy New year wishing you loads more good health, and creative pleasure!!

    Hugs Giggles

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    1. Thanks Giggles. There is a link on Facebook a friend there made a video of her use of the Copic Markers that really got me going with them.

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  10. I can see some archaeologist finding your sketch books in a 1000 years time. It would provide not only a wonderful artistic record, but a social commentary on the times we live in. The underlying humour (us Brits pronounce the 'h' hhhhumour rather than umour :) ) needs bottling and selling.

    You brighten my daily blogging, Lynn.

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    1. Thank you John! I love thinking my art journals could become historic finds some day! I appreciate your feedback very much!

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  11. Great drawings here! I love the 1st Meral - the one with the soulful looking face. Love Joshua too. Isn't Sketchbook Skool fun? I've taken a few classes with them & absolutely loved them. I always learn something new. Happy New Year to you! xo

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Thanks for leaving your comments as I love hearing from you. Your words of encouragement are why I continue to draw!