All-Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 4

[Tinwhistler30]

Thanks Robert, I appreciate your comments. I like your coloured pencil studies very fine especially the veins and colour.

[gakinme]

I'm following the Classical Forum's Once Upon A Time - Wanda Gag thread and this is my first one. I was very impressed by her illustrations for Million of Cats. Some of her work are lithographs and some are ink and brush. I thought it was pencil but I guess it's not. Rendering her pieces in ink and brush is much faster.

This is Chinese brush and Chinese ink with photoshop color red added to it.

[bluemanjacob]

Very nice, Sandra. I checked out that thread, too.
Nice to see your sketches, Tinwhistler.
Robert, good job on the leaves.
Are they turning colors there? Ours here are because it's getting pretty dry.
Interesting about the dawn horse.

Last night I was looking at a Mexican artist on Flickr and she mentioned Frida Kahlo. I read about her on Wikepedia and thought I would do a quick pencil sketch. It doesn't look quite right, but I am not going to spend any more time on it.

[Tinwhistler30]

Very much looks like Frida, nice one Jake.

[gakinme]

Thank you, Jake. Jake, your sketch has a good likeness to Frida Kahlo, especially her nose!

Here's a copy of the Million of Cats piece of Wanda Gag but I put in my two lovers.

Ball pen



A quick sketch of my daughter reading in the back yard with Chinese brush and ink.

[gakinme]

Continuing with the Art Movements-Aug-The Ashcan School thread, I did the following.

This one is Ernest Lawson. I used my cheap gouache and realized I really have no patience for watermedia. LOL. I didn't bother to wait for it to dry although I have to say this paint dries very quickly too. (no green paint used)

Here's my original version.



I then gave it poster edges in photoshop.



After this, I desperately needed much broader strokes. It always happens to me. After some fine detail work, I needed to rough a painting up. I used the rest of my gouache and did the August Landscape challenge here. I just wanted to splash colors here and there.



And tie it up with photoshop watercolor filter.



Still not relaxed enough, I took my Gallery Oil Pastel and did a piece of Ernest Lawson. I needed to rub and have big arm movement. Perhaps finally I like to draw big these days. I'll get the chunky charcoal one day from Cretacolor.

[robertsloan2]

Jake, your portrait is very striking. You've been improving a lot. Her nose is great, so much depth and subtle shading. As for the leaves turning -- no, I just felt like doing those colors. They turn very late in Arkansas from what I've heard. I just like doing the seasons out of season sometimes and I was doing those oak leaves from imagination and memory anyway. I don't have an oak near enough like say, in the yard, to have real ones handy. I could do a summer pecan leaf from life if I got outside.

Sandra, your sketches are cool. I love the one of your daughter. When you do your family it's always striking. The colorful paintings are fun. Cool Photoshop effects.

Here's a couple of pages of apple sketches in graphite.


8 1/2" x 11" 9B pencil on ProArt sketchbook paper.


2" x 3 1/2" in Ebony pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper.

Preliminaries for doing green apples in Prismacolor painting, demos for value drawing.

[princesstwi]

These are the apples Robert helped me learn to draw... graphite pencil 9x12 sketchpaper

[gakinme]

Welcome, princesstwi! I have been wondering if you would be posting your sketches too at this thread since you have been working hard with Robert. I'm glad you are posting your efforts too.

Robert, good apples there. I could see the five values there. Princesstwi, good effort there too. I haven't even drawn an apple myself yet.

Tonight, I was cleaning up the antique table that my husband gave me to use for drawing finally in our room and I found a Scheaffer bottle of writing ink. The ink has crystalized in it but I put a bit of water in it and shook it up. Apparently, it's permanent ink and it has a glass angled compartment. How neat. I could actually use my dip pen and dip it in that side reservoir that is 1/4 way down from the top of the opening. This got to be very old.

I drew it here.



My husband went to the dollar store and bought a so called heavyweight sketchbook that he happened by. 30 pages for a dollar. I guess it's not a bad deal. But the ink seeps through to the next page.

I bought the book called Figure: How to Draw & Paint the Figure with IMPACT by Sharon Pinsker. I rarely buy art books but the style she has is incredible.

These two left ones were her failures and I copied it nevertheless. Then I started using more of this Scheaffer ink with a brush for the third one. I really like ink!!



Then I improvised on this one. Wrong placement of his important part.



This one is the author's rendition more or less.



And I took a CD box and copied the singer on top with her style.



It actually looks like him. My daughter thought that was quite clever even without his forehead and nose in full!

[princesstwi]

here are some other projects weve done this week...

[robertsloan2]

Twila, thank you for posting your leaves and rocks here too. I knew you'd love this thread. I love how the veins came out in your second oak leaf, it was inspirational. Your pile of rocks is lovely and your green mineral glows.

Sandra, thank you! I used to have eight colors of Sheaffer Skrip ink in those glass bottles with the little wells. They can be reactivated and last for a long, long time. It's wonderful ink. I loved those bottles. They are about thirty years old, maybe more, since I remember seeing them when I was a kid too.

[Tinwhistler30]

Sandra I particularly liked your posterize image it was much like pen and wash in effect well defined image.

These apples from the other guys have driven me to dent one of my apple pies mmmmmmm ♥

[bluemanjacob]

From Robert:

Jake, your portrait is very striking. You've been improving a lot.

That's funny Robert. I feel like I am not making as much progress as everyone else is! (Or, I'm not worthy!)
Hey, Sandra. Nice sketches.
I got some of that Dollar Store paper also and it is so soft that when I draw on it it rolls up. Maybe if I get my drawing board out and use one piece at a time it would be good for practice. I kind of like putting my sketches in a book, though.
Welcome, Twila. Good on the apples!
Tinwhistler, (in my best Homer Simpson voice) MMMMMMMMMM apple pie! AAAAAAAAAArgggggggg.

[Tinwhistler30]

Jake, as it happens i'm a Simpson lol

[gakinme]

Totally agree, Jake. I like all my sketches in a spiral bound sketchbook more than pieces of paper. Such sketchpads are hard to scan too.

Twila, good colors there. Very distintive leaves! Keep them coming.

Here is a pencil job with tortillon based on this posemaniac picture. For the first time, I see clearly how abs are in relation to the smaller muscles on the side. Gave him an oriental face and vital parts. LOL. He probably just stepped out of the shower just fluffling his hair out. My daughter often asks me why my guys are always naked. Like, why is the guy doing exercise without clothes on and on and on...ROFL.