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    gakinme
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        Welcome to the All Media On-Going Sketching Thread where everything goes.

        Thanks to Tyree, the moderator, for giving us sketchers this avenue to post our daily sketches of any medium and any subject. They could be watercolor, acrylic, pastels, line and wash, pen and ink, colored pencils, graphite, charcoal, watersoluable pencils, watersoluable oil pastel, watersoluable crayons, liquid pencil, collages, mixed media and anything under the sun that could make a mark, even sculptures and clay and 3-dimensional pieces.

        If you are a beginner, this is the best place to start and get your feet wet. We especially welcome experienced members to post their beautiful sketches so that beginners have something to aspire to.

        This is a gentle section to hang your art and therefore we do not do critques. We do encourage you to say something you like about the art that appears just before your post or a few more if you have the time so as to encourage the members who post. Likewise, we would do the same for you.

        If you have a sketch that contains nudity, please follow the forum guidelines and put a butt icon to your posting.

        Come and post often and let us watch one another’s progress.

        All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 1
        All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 2 – Lost
        All Media On-Going Sketching Thread Part 3

        Sandra

        #1117252
        gakinme
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            I will start off by posting a few of my favorites from my last thread and then I’ll start adding new work as I draw them. I like naked bodies, gay material and everything about love so you would see a lot of them. Some are very detailed but most are just plain sketches. I also often use photoshop to enhance my drawings where I see them insufficient still.

            Acrylic and then photoshopped

            Ball pen

            Inktense pencils and Chinese brush and ink

            Pencil

            Watercolor

            Charcoal

            Pencil

            Playdough

            Pencil and photoshopped

            #1116911
            robertsloan2
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                Great memories! I’ve just subscribed to this new thread, so I won’t miss a thing. If I draw anything more tonight, I’ll come here. :D

                Thank you for doing this so gracefully.


                Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
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                #1117660
                michaeleric
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                    I have to get used to the furios pace of these threads now :eek: :lol: .

                    Here’s a piece in Charcoal Pencils. About 25 hours.

                    Michael

                    #1117707
                    christinemlr
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                        I’ve been lookin at the terrific stuff posted in thread 3. Hope to comment soon.

                        Sandra thats a wonderful gallery you’ve posted. I particulatly like the acrylic figure in the sea. Sandra please tell me what you do with all the work you produce? What is your aim if any? Anyway, you’ve really got me interested in sketching in all media and trying things, so thanks for being an amazing sketcher, drawer, painter, artist.

                        Michael 25 HOURS!! Is that how you sketch?? Its pretty amazing, lovely control. Please explain!

                        I bought a 24 set of pastel pencils, and been trying them out, not sure I like them yet, but i think they’ll be useful for sketching and underdrawing as in this piece

                        It was taken from a photo in the paper today of the cellist Natalie Clein, but I changed it to make a an unknown girl. The original idea was to try and do it in the style of Renoir as I’ve been looking at the impressionistrs again but I’m afraid Renoir completely eluded me so I ended up with this. I had no idea what to do with the background, but its only a sketch.

                        The next one is trying out a new watercolour pad from Goldline, and again taken from todays newspaper. I picked the mother and child out from among a crowd of people who are suffering in the violence of Northern Sri Lanka

                        I don’t normally buy newspapers, but I’ve decided that I want to start doing sketches concerned with world events. Feeling so helpless in the face of all the terrible things in the world I want to express something of my feelings through art. It may lead to a large work. Something important to me.

                        Xina
                        #1117253
                        gakinme
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                            OMG, Michael, what a stunning piece. Please, how big is it and can we have a close up on the strokes please? I’m dying wanting to see how you shaded it. What paper, what type of charcoal please???

                            Robert, you are welcome. If you weren’t here, I wouldn’t have worked as much. You are so prolific too!

                            Xina, beautiful beautiful piece, especially your watercolor piece. And it has such a presence with the subject matter. Wow, an eye opener to see how skin tone could be compiled with different colors and still looks good. Thank you for showing this one. I’m eager to try more watercolors too. Your pastel pencil piece has a very manga feel to it. Not only that, her fingers on the bow and the colors on her face are very good.

                            What do I do with my pieces? They are all filed in a box and most are in my sketchbooks so that I could give them to my kids when they get older so they could show their friends they once have a budding artist mom…hahaha…

                            Actually, I want to be good enough to illustrate one day kids’ books. But I’m far from it. Perhaps 10 years from now.

                            How long has each of you been working on art? I was readling Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, a few months ago. (See my review here.) And basically, if you have 10,000 hours under your belt, you would be more than proficient. That’s just about the time it takes to get a Ph.D – 2 to 3 years. I’m looking forward to that day I have 10,000 hours under my belt.

                            I’ll be back with some sketches. I’ve been busy researching on a couple of artists’ work and more horses.

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                            LordBishop08
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                                Spoiled Princess

                                I finally understand the phrase, "Impatience is enemy of good drawing..."

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                                gakinme
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                                    OMG, that one is so good, Earl…spoiled princess indeed. In fact, it’s very seductive!!! Her boobs are so good in this one!!! And the skin fold is so realistic!! This got to my all time favorite of yours to date.

                                    This should be called the TO DIE FOR thread…

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                                    gakinme
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                                        Alright, I have been studying Egon Schiele’s work yesterday. Man, a good looking dude but he died at the young age of 28 because of the Spanish influenza that killed 20 million in 1918.. His work depicts the prostitutes and at times considered grotesque, brusque and pornographic. I actually am entranced with the little color he put here and there for his nude pieces and plan to copy it.

                                        Here is my first attempt. You could see the original here. I didn’t give her angular bony structures but more youthful and fleshy but the more I drew the legs and arms, the more I notice I am confused about the pose. Technically, it is very difficult to put two arms in that overlapping order on a knee and the knee would not be so high. You could try it in front of the mirror. But it is very neat piece nevertheless.

                                        You could see all his pieces at this site here.
                                        http://www.egon-schiele.net/

                                        I drafted this real quickly and grabbed any brush pen in front of me and inked it quickly before the kids would come home. And since I don’t have tinted charcoal and pastel right in front of me, I just used color pencil and pencil to dust some colors on. Next time, I have to do this way before the kids hit home.

                                        The next one was even faster. 5 mins of yours truly. That’s when I understood he made an idealized pose for his drawing. I kept shifting my legs and arms to make it at least curvier with some lighting.:lol: :lol:

                                        This one I did right before these two. Col-Erase Color Pencils of another waterdrop.

                                        Oh, and while I’m on this, I couldn’t help reposting my absolute favorite of my nude pieces for Michael who has been missing in action. Don’t want him to miss seeing how much I have improved.

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                                        gakinme
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                                            This one is again based on Egon Schiele’s work but mine is more colorful. General’s pastel chalk pencils. 4 x 3.5 inch. The covering power of pastel chalk pencils is amazing. Never realized how efficient they are. And love my Elmer’s Paintastic brush pens. It’s so fast and convenient. Love the lines it makes compared to a normal pen.

                                            Original pix here.

                                            A caterpillar was in my vegetables while I was washing and I thought it was dead. But while I was drawing, it swerved its head away and so it has 2 heads. :lol: General’s pastel chalk pencils. 4×5 x 3 inch.

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                                            tyree
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                                                :clap: thanks sandra for starting another great thread…looking forward to some more wonderful works!!!! tyree

                                                'art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known'.....oscar wilde

                                                #1117257
                                                gakinme
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                                                    Susan, thanks for letting us hang out here. You have a very nice doggie there, full of expression, Susan!!

                                                    I am so delighted tonight because I received my 12 copies of Drawings of the Masters and the 20th Century Part 1 and the American artists ones are so good, so innovative. The classics are fabulous too from the middle ages. I don’t think I need to go to the library for a long time.

                                                    I saw a piece by George Grosz called Trees and it has a watercolor background and pen work on trees and he used charcoal for leaves. Why didn’t I think of it before. He smudged just very lightly in a top cluster. I went and did the whole tree. Now I know how to make trees painlessly.

                                                    Then I drew my lovebirds. The first one is Chinese ink and brush.

                                                    This one is watercolor background and sketch and wash pencil but I didn’t do wash on the graphite part.

                                                    OMG, I have to tell you how happy I am with the above one. I have not drawn him for the last 3 months and after drawing Robert, I have finally learnt a bit more on doing eyes. Thank you, Robert. One of my lifelong dream is to sketch all my favorite stars very easily and I think I am getting there.

                                                    The next one is the partner of the above lovebird. I manganized him. Aren’t they a pretty pair? One more masculine and one more feminine? OMG, I wanted to scream when I did his face and mouth so much like the actor I based it on, and finally his eyes. :p :p Yeah, I’m one of those who falls in love with the people and characters I create. Hopeless. :lol: :lol: :heart: :heart: :heart:

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                                                    robertsloan2
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                                                        Acer Aspire One
                                                        about 5″ square
                                                        Prismacolor pen and Lukas 1862 watercolor on my watercolor journal, crosspost from My Watercolor Journal thread in Watercolor Gallery forum.

                                                        I’m not as good at machines as I am with living things, too little practice. But I got some of the wonderful metallic shine on the case and I got the proportions right. This netbook is tiny, it’s the smallest laptop I’ve ever had. I’ve been getting used to it all day, but haven’t installed the scanner on it yet — and really need another mouse, a wireless one, since it’s got only 3 USB ports rather than 4 like the other one.

                                                        I still have a little left on my check after I pay Kitten back for it, so maybe I’ll order one then.

                                                        I love the clean strong bright screen — the screen seems to have colder, bluer color and much brighter backlighting than my other laptop. It’s very cool that way. I even painted it with WetCanvas open on the screen, didn’t want to just leave it looking turned off or something.


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                                                        robertsloan2
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                                                            Wow. Michael, the 25 hour breasts are worth every minute you spent on rendering them so perfectly. I’m stunned. So graceful.

                                                            Earl, the spoiled princess is hot and I love the way there’s so much character in both figures — really reminds me of Edgar Rice Burroughs or Robert E. Howard stories, the sort of thing I’d like to write sometime.

                                                            Xina, your musician is gorgeous. I love her intense pose, she’s lost in her music and so rapt in what she’s doing.

                                                            Sandra, fascinating studies of another master. I love the raindrop in CP and the two-headed caterpillar too.

                                                            This thread does move so fast sometimes!


                                                            Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
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                                                            LordBishop08
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                                                                Robert, if you write it I’ll draw it! I just illustrated a soon to be published book called Worlds Away (sci fi kids book), so whenever you need an illustrator, I’m game!

                                                                I finally understand the phrase, "Impatience is enemy of good drawing..."

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