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  • Mar 10, 2008
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I made good on my promise last week to start sketching right then and there. The sketch I made that night is not one I care to share with the world, but it got me going again. Here is a selection of three, chosen because I was fairly loose and yet the subjects came out halfway decent. I especially love the hodgepodge kitty study with bits and pieces of my lovely Diego here and there on the page.

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Feb 25-Mar 2

  • Mar 5, 2008
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I did not keep up with daily sketching this week, however, Illustration Friday provided me with impetus to draw, if ever so little and ever so lame. Hold your seat, here is the extent of my sketching for the week: 


Lame1
Lame1

Lame2
Lame2
I did create a digital illustration, but that doesn't count because I didn't draw from life. I believe there is a certain skill to drawing from life and it is a skill I'd like to develop. Hence not counting the digital. I am recommitting to sketching this very moment, even though I don't really feel like it at this very moment. That's what it takes to get better, no?

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Feb 18-24

  • Feb 26, 2008
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I spent alot of time this week on WetCanvas.com, gleaning everything I could about how people paint. Meanwhile, I kept up with my sketchbook pretty well. HOWEVER, I now sit here and wonder what I was thinking. I mean, sketching daily is all well and good, but POSTING them for the world to see? I will not necessarily have much worthwhile to show every week, but in the long run I think it will give me a great deal of satisfaction to see how I've grown. In the meantime though, I must reveal the less than ideal sketches. 


This sketch was quickly drawn for use in a website I'm designing. If this particular design gets chosen I'll draw something with more of a scientific botanical illustration feel to it. 

BEEflower
BEEflower
BEE Web2 pg5
BEE Web2 pg5

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Feb 11-17 Sketchbook

  • Feb 18, 2008
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This week's sketches were primarily realistic studies of various insects as prep for illustrating a web header for an environmental website. What sheer pleasure! Usually I jump right onto the computer first thing, but no more! My new approach is to sketch these studies, then turn to the illustration with enough background to work loosely from memory, to keep the illustration fluid and somewhat naive. Of course, this is just a theory, time will tell if it really works like that!


Bumblebee_Vox
Bumblebee_Vox
Ladybug_Vox
Ladybug_Vox
Honeybee_Vox
Honeybee_Vox
I also did this little study of some cool kind of Robin for a painting. I started to sketch this somewhat realistically like the above drawings, but in the midst of sketching decided to use looser marks.

Robin_Vox
Robin_Vox

And here is the final painting. I have alot to learn about this medium, the color is much to saturated, the stroke too stiff. But I am VERY happy nonetheless because I actually finally PAINTED! Yay. I'm doing it and I'm learning and some day I will have the skill to make it look the way I want.

Theory_Illustration Friday
Theory_Illustration Friday

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The joys of graphite

  • Feb 15, 2008
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So, lately I've been feeling unsatisfied with making computer illustrations. That's part of what prompted me to start a daily sketch journal. Yesterday I make a quick and dirty little pencil sketch from a Googled photo, and it gave me so much more happiness than any of the computer illustrations which I've lovingly spent so much more time and energy on. There is something so immediate, so personal, about drawing something with your own hand, applying pressure for a darker stroke, using a light touch to shade, feeling the tooth of the paper under the pencil tip. I just love this simple, unfinished little drawing!


GraphiteSeaOtter
GraphiteSeaOtter

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Daily Sketchbook

  • Feb 13, 2008
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Greetings, and welcome to my daily sketchbook. The title is a little misleading as, though I will be sketching daily, I'll only be posting my favorite sketches of the week here, so the updates will be weekly rather than daily. Nevertheless, this blog should help keep me accountable in my quest for daily sketching.

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