more Aneel doodles...

Aneel doodles

Aneel has been kind enough to model for me, several times in the past. I've never really gotten anything close to a likeness, and I don't know that I've done that here, either. But the difference is that, this time, I'm not even trying, I'm just kind of doodling. These are essentially just under drawings.

More sketchbook pages

Still have no idea why I am drawing a million angles of Robert Pattinson. I'm sort of just going with it now, figuring eventually it will lead me somewhere. Today, it led me here. Playing twister with faces again.

creepy

Hmmm...

Started doing all these sketches of Robert Pattinson's face. I have no idea why I am doing that. I don't even know the guy.

Except that... it's kind of fun. I have these moments where I feel like a creepy stalker, but then I play super deformo with my colored pencils, and I get over it. Suprisingly easy to give myself the old pass on being creepy. That alone should probably concern me.

Ah well.

Eva

This just rounds up my week. Eva sat for me this morning, while we were waiting for brunch on a rainy sunday morning. Drawings are still so slip slidey, but I am liking this tiny little moleskin sketchbook. It tucks so neatly into the smallest spaces and the paper seems sturdy.

day seven: Barak

Barak also offered to model for me this week. I haven't drawn him before, though he was a very willing model. As always, I don't know that this looks like him, as much as it was intersting to look deeply into the features of someone for the first time, while holding a pen in my hand."What does Barak mean?" I asked him.

"In Hebrew, it means something like lighting," he told me. And I like this. It suits him.

day five: figure drawing

OK, I am torn between deciding whether or not figure drawing ought to count... because it seems a little lazy... and yet, here we are...

So, ok, this week I brought slightly bigger paper, and my box full of colored pencils, which went untouched, and my box of pastels, which made me happy.... although it's been awhile since I played around in that box.

There are colors I now know that I need.

This was a 10 min sketch. The pink was too cool and too grey. I used black as the under drawing, which I love against the craft paper, but was working against me when I added color. You would think I would figure that out right away... but no.

This was another 10 min sketch. Again, the black under drawing was really working against me. I spent the last 5 minutes, wishing I had used sepia to do the basic drawing.

This is a 20 min pose... and FINALLY, I took a stab at working with sepia for the base drawing. Much easier to build against it. I loved playing with the colors. There were more ranges of purple tha I wanted, to play with the lights in the shadow areas.... also, in my head, I was thinking I would go back in and scribble all over the top with black later. 'Cause I'm funny like that. Just ran out of time, and now I'm glad because that would have been a bad idea. Also, the drawing was all loopy and stretched out of shape with itself, which happens. Happens more now because I am so rusty, but.... well, still.