I’m not too happy with this pic, and I’m not going to tell you who I was trying to draw, because it doesn’t look like him. So, it becomes Generic Man with Helicopter. The ‘copter was inspired by some previous drawings you can find on the old blog site. But doing it has taken me […]
Tags: colour, sketches, watercolour
A carriage, this time. I think it was done on the same day as yesterday’s.
Tags: colour, montreal, sketches, watercolour
Not much time for sketching today. So, I threw on something pretty from an old book I don’t think has been posted here before. It’s exercises outside of the circus tent, one summer in the Old Port in Montreal.
Tags: colour, montreal, sketches, watercolour
Wow. That was heavy, because I’ve been doing the blog for four years, and what do I get when I think everything is set up right? The domain name is attached to a spam blog. I wrote a letter to my domain seller’s support, and immediately after, either by design or coincidence, the wordpress blog […]
Tags: black and white, cats, pencil, sketches
Listening to that, this morning, by Hector Berlioz. It has a nice musical guillotining scene. Below, I drew last night, while listening to a story on the radio about a man whose grandma was in the jungle with Che and Castro during the fight for the Cuban revolution. Still haven’t sorted out the blogs, so […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
Durn. My normal blog is working again, though I’d like to explore and learn more about the mechanics behind this one. Still haven’t been able to migrate the four years worth of Utopia Moment posts over to here, even though it’s supposed to be possible. Maybe I’ll just put a note on the old one […]
Tags: black and white, sketches
Trying to draw these figures with traditional underdrawing, and starting with ‘lines of action’ and all the things drawing manuals tell you to do. The girl looks nice, while the guy looks like the usual type of person I draw. Put in the Carrie-like background to set them off. That’s a lot of little lines!
Tags: black and white, sketches