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    ………. with, or without, the addition of colour and brush!

    In other words, this is a place to share our creative, visual thoughts or sub-conscious markings! They are often our most private musings which, for me, might happen in the sketch-book, on the margins of newspapers or on the sides of crosswords:lol:

    Where do you make your marks?:clear:

    If you can scan or photograph them, and are willing to share them, please post them in this thread.

    N.B.It’s non-judgemental, non-critical because such sketches are expressions of our ‘workings out’, our ideas, of our thoughts …….. but might give us in-sight to how other minds work!

    When you post, if possible, give us a little idea of where you made the sketches, how long they took, any special thoughts you’d like to share – or just post the scribbles!

    Let’s share some fun!

    Cheers, Maureen


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    For instance – this was a 10 mins sketch, directly from the screen in an attempt to judge proportion quickly! Sketchbook. Black uni-pin I think.


    .. and I can’t spell tortoiseshell:o :o

    … and these in the Sunday Paper! Ballpoint.

    … and these, on a piece of scrap paper left on the drawing board!
    the paper is 10″ x 1.5″, so they’re small! Black uni-pin again.

    Cheers, Maureen


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    Anonymous

        Nice , you’ve caught the feeling of the cat well & miraculously made good use of the puzzles section ! they now look interesting & fun !
        Mike

        #529463

        C’mon Mike – search the files for yours!;):)

        Cheers, Maureen


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        Anonymous

            C’mon Mike – search the files for yours!;):)

            Ha ! I never keep sketches , they lie around for a couple of days & I throw them out ,usually I do them on the back of junk mail. I do keep any “Serious” drawings but they’re no good for here !

            EDIT- No hang on, I’ve got this lying around intending to develop the idea, it’s been lying around a month or so.
            the idea was to draw with no lines at all , it started of with the doodling on the top right while I watched the telly & then I grabbed a old masters book off the shelf & penciled in a figure from it ,after that moved over to the table to pen it in.
            Unfortunately a computer screen cannot handle this technique at the limited 800 dpi but maybe you can see a little of what I was doing.
            I may not bother with further investigation of it but it intrigued me for the 45 mins the whole process took.
            This is another important use of sketching investigate & experiment.
            Cheers Mike

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            artastic
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                Hey maureen, just found this, and with all the other posting, have been a bit absent from wetcanvas, except for the WDe
                I have found a true love of ink sketching, urban sketching, and have a small group of coffee house sketchers going
                Here are a couple we did last Tuesday of a horse sculpture I dragged over to our table


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                Mike – I like that idea and I do think it works well ……… keeping all horizontal lines forces one to consider quality/thickness, density and how to differentiate the tones needed.

                Hi Bonnie – glad you found this! … know how you like your pen sketches!
                Did you add some water after the lines?

                (PS – I bet you loaded these from a tablet ;) – they’re the same:lol:)

                Cheers, Maureen


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                    Earlier last summer I thought it might be a good idea for me to try and improve my animal drawing skills by drawing some from life. Which means quick drawings and more of gesture/line drawings than doing studied poses. I was also trying to improve my memory of how animals look. Not sure how successful I was but here are some pages from the sketchbook I used.

                    The subjects were mostly mallard ducks and canada geese in my local park, every now and then I would include a sketch of a visitor to the park. :) Since these all had to be done quickly with no time to erase I used a technical type pen for the drawings. I think a Copic Multiliner, .05, but it could have been one of my Technical pens also.

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                    Anonymous

                        Yes I can see very well that they are Mallard & Canada geese , the shapes & attitudes are unmistakable, despite the brevity of the sketch.
                        Now that’s sketching !
                        Mike

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                        Blah
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                            I am glad to see that this thread is off to a good start.

                            Maureen…your cat sketches are lovely! I also like your clever use of the printed stuff on the newspaper.

                            Mike…your straight line sketches are very effective. I did one years ago and it required a lot of concentration, but mine was not an original idea.

                            Recently I went on a heritage tour and visited a famous temple. On the way out I was a few minutes ahead of my group and found the time to sketch some of the visitors to the temple taking a break before leaving the place.

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                            Blah
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                                Kathy…I have tried to sketch birds and small animals a few time and found them very difficult subjects. They are always on the move. You have caught their essence very nicely.

                                Bonnie…What a clever idea to sketch a sculpture of a horse and that too sitting indoors. Perhaps that is what I should try. :)

                                #529465

                                Assured lines there Blah – I like the ‘immediacy’ of the sketches too.

                                Cheers, Maureen


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                                    I have a long holiday weekend since Deepavali (the festival of lights, falls on Monday night/Tuesday morning. I was supposed to go out sketching this morning with a bunch of friends but we had to call it off. Chennai is getting some much needed rains. Therefore I may not be able to sketch outdoors but I plan to do a lot of sketching and painting all the same over the next three days.
                                    This quick sketch was just to get me started.

                                    #529891
                                    Anonymous

                                        You’ve caught her so well in that sketch Balaji, I love your looseness.
                                        Mike

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                                        Good warm-up sketch Balaji:)

                                        Cheers, Maureen


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