My Vice President, Finance Manager, Regional Manager, Branch Manager, Operations Manager, and Production Manager invited me out to dinner… I’m stuffed and tired. I thought, “I’ll just do a quick little sketch.â€Â And there was Girl2’s JELL-O. There’s always room for JELL-O.
I was Ҡthis close to drawing an ankylosaur.
Tonight’s EDM challenge was to draw a chair. Just a slight adjustment of my gaze from the JELL-O brings into focus the Dora Dora chair!
So, I was spending some time perusing sketching.cc and flipping through the pages of Russ Stutler’s online “how to sketch†book. Believe it or not it had never occurred to me to sketch with a brush and ink. So, tonight I ran to Staples and bought a bottle of ink. Here’s my first ever attempt. I could get used to this style. I like the expressive quality of the lines. I like how easy it is to change the style with just a slight bit of pressure. I think I’ll play with this a bit this week. I would take this on the road if I could make it more portable. I may have to get me a brush pen like this little beauty here. That sucker costs the same as my monthly water bill.
Tonight’s EDM was to draw architecture. My house is over a hundred years old and all the doors open like a race track around the house to let air flow freely when the windows are open. So, that’s tonight’s architecture.
I have been walking the walls all day today. Leaving the house would mean leaving my bride home alone with a cranky, croupy Girl2. We do a pretty good job as long as we can tag team. The Bride doesn’t lose patience with the kiddo (much), but she sure can with me! So, trapped in a house with a sick baby, we caught up on all of the recorded TV shows we have been saving for a rainy day. Around 2 we decided to sleep the rest of a cloudy afternoon off.
A perfect day.
While the wife had the pumpkin in the bath, I whipped up an emergency still life for Thing-a-Day. Then I turned around and did my take on the dishwasher for tonight’s EDM: Draw an appliance.
I got absolutely nothing that I planned to do this weekend accomplished. I know it’s just Saturday and there’s still tomorrow, but really I had big plans. Maybe next weekend. Anyway, I spent all day at work moving stuff around the pipe yard. We have important visitors coming this week so we are doing some extra ORGANIZING (cleaning). When I’m tired or rushed, I try to draw fantasy creatures or dinosaurs. I find it very relaxing just to color them in with my pencils. Also, tonight’s EDM challenge is to draw a book. I just happen to have one of those handy.
Tonight, the challenge was to draw anything I wanted… or a vegetable. While I was trying to decide what I wanted to draw that was not a vegetable, a woman came on TV that I thought had interesting folds of flesh in her face. She was heavy, but still pretty. This looks nothing like her. She was only on screen for 30-45 seconds.
For the last week or so, I have been paying more attention to the folds of skin on overweight people. I believe that I will focus my figure drawing on heavier people so that I can get better at the tonal values on their skin.
I really want to do a BBW Pin-up series or Lane Bryant lingerie models. Real women have curves!
Thing-a-day was along those same lines.
