Drawings almost every day by Romney David Smith and Tarragon Smith. Occasionally paintings or etchings or silkscreens. Or whatever else catches our fancy.
Go to a place where people are just hanging around, killing time, reading their phones, picking their noses. A train station, a coffee shop, a library, a doctor's waiting room. Be careful at a bus station, the paranoid will think you are a police sketch artist, or someone trying to steal their soul.
Drawing exercises, applying them outside of a life drawing class. If you're not in a life drawing class but still want to practice find a friend who will pose for you. Or take your sketchbook outdoors to find people on the street to draw. People tend to stay still at bus stops, in cafes, and on public transport. Try making very quick sketchesof moving people on the street or in a park. If you're worried about drawing alone, go sketching with a friend, draw one another and, if you feel brave enough, both draw other people around you together, it will take some of the pressure off. +++Jake+++
See the world one sketch at a time. Urban Sketchers is a global community of sketchers dedicated to the practice of on-location drawing. We share our love for the places where we live and travel—one drawing at a time.
Lovely. Great lines.
ReplyDeleteGo to a place where people are just hanging around, killing time, reading their phones, picking their noses. A train station, a coffee shop, a library, a doctor's waiting room. Be careful at a bus station, the paranoid will think you are a police sketch artist, or someone trying to steal their soul.
ReplyDeleteDrawing exercises, applying them outside of a life drawing class.
ReplyDeleteIf you're not in a life drawing class but still want to practice find a friend who will pose for you. Or take your sketchbook outdoors to find people on the street to draw. People tend to stay still at bus stops, in cafes, and on public transport. Try making very quick sketchesof moving people on the street or in a park. If you're worried about drawing alone, go sketching with a friend, draw one another and, if you feel brave enough, both draw other people around you together, it will take some of the pressure off.
+++Jake+++
See the world one sketch at a time.
ReplyDeleteUrban Sketchers is a global community of sketchers dedicated to the practice of on-location drawing. We share our love for the places where we live and travel—one drawing at a time.
https://urbansketchers.org/
Sketching on the train
ReplyDeletesleepy commuters partially glimpsed profiles and reflections in windows are all fair game for the guerilla draftsman.
JS