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Back to school…

I’m taking another drawing class this fall, and last week I got cocky and tried to draw a human, Tommy in this case, though I’ve not really tried to draw a person before. I think there’s a decent resemblance.  I also tried drawing Thea.  Drawing babies turned out to be a […]

Wireframe

I tried to do a quick sketch of a wire container/cage that Lindsey uses for houseplants.  I figured it’d be pretty simple since there wouldn’t be anything to shade.  It turned out to be much harder than I thought it’d be, partly because I was spending too much time trying to get in detail as […]

Hi, I’m Woody!

I started drawing one of Tommy’s Woody dolls, but I feel asleep before I finished.  I spent about 15 minutes on this late Saturday night.  Maybe I’ll finish it sometime — Tommy ran off with it the following morning.I tried to go for perspective on the boot — didn’t quite work.  I’ll also need to […]

A rose by any other doodler…

…would probably look much better!  This was sitting on my in-laws’ end table, and I decided to try and  contour-draw it while waiting for Tommy to fall asleep.  It turned out OK.

Art Class

I did this during a community art class last year.They gave us reference material — this wasn’t off the top of my head.  But the vase was taller in real life.

Doodle pileup

I’ve been doodling in the margins of my notebooks and textbooks for years and have decided to try and actually develop some drawing skill.  I’ve gone to a couple community-offered courses and bought a few used art textbooks (nice thing about being in a college town — the used book store downtown is overflowing with […]