Had lunch today with some friends and family, and was able to fit in a very quick sketch of this centerpiece. Â Should have used graphite rather than a prisma pencil, but hey, now I know better.
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I like that this project will provide certain souvenirs of events throughout the year. Â Today’s was an important one: a get-together and memorial for Mr. Jack McKinney. Â Huge thanks to the McKinney family for opening their beautiful place for this special night. Â Mr. McKinney will be missed.
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Nothing fancy — just more simple practice stuff. Â The idea here is to define a bunch of different forms using shadow rather than a perspective view. Â Some are a little off, but I think for the most part, the shapes come through. Â I’ll look for something more interesting tomorrow.
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Sketched these in class tonight. Â Asked the instructor for any recommendations. Â He said, “Yeah, you went past the center line on this lamp shade. Â Unforgivable, dude. Â Look at this — this is impossible. Â You see? Â It doesn’t work. Â And this over here wouldn’t look like that. Â There would be more light right here. Â Good though.” Â I like this guy.
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Was too busy tonight doing classwork to fit in anything else. Â So here’s the rest of the collection of random shape models. Â Inspiring stuff, eh? Â At least I’m getting a little more practice laying down marker ink.
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My markers were getting away from me a little. Â This is part of another class assignment, practicing perspective and modeling with simple, invented shapes. Â I’m supposed to do several more of these (which is probably good, since I’m obviously kind of a noob with the Copic markers).
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…by which I mean the pruning of this tree, as well as the rushed and sloppy sketch of it. Â Then again, I suppose it’s “Sketch 365”, not “Masterpiece 365.”
…but if there’s a way to do it, Ben Orchard would probably know.
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This is the other half of an assignment I was working on — the orthographic views of the same plane from Sketch #8. Â I think this one better captures the funny kind of stubbiness of this little plane. Â Once again, it’s primarily based off this painting.
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Stopped in at one of Art Center’s regular figure drawing workshops to get inspiration for today’s sketch.  This guy was awesome, and could no doubt beat me up six ways from Sunday.  He had a lot of great 5-minute poses with props (which I butchered), and then this 10-minute one (which came out okay).  Maybe I’ll run into him again at some point and he’ll break out one of these.
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