Sketchcrawl

Jul. 2nd, 2006 11:47 pm
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I'm just throwing these up here without fixing the levels or anything. I've braved sunshine, mosquitos, and a self-destructing computer desk just to get them up so I'm not doing any more.


Page 1 - Some people watching the police pick up a horribly bashed vehicle from an accident the night before.
Page 2 - One more watcher and some location sketches from the coolest little alley courtyard thing in town.
Page 3 - Another alley sketch.
Page 4 - A not-very-accurate view down the entry to the courtyard, a person, and an attempt at drawing Howard from Sweet Dreams.
Page 5 - My coffee and water and sketchbook at the little table at the pub where we had lunch (or, in my case, bread); also an attempt at Phil Schaeffer (also from Sweet Dreams) who turned out looking a lot like our family friend Paul, and a Brazilian football/soccer fan. (Okay, I am not a huge sports fan, but I listen to Radio 4 enough to get the general gist of the World Cup, and France beat Brazil? Whaaa??)
Page 6 - Some people squinting and coming up stairs. I found a good place to draw people leaving the sort of convention centre where there was some sort of Canada Day thing going on.
Page 7 - More people walking and squinting, including a guy with a big nose.
Page 8 - Still more squinting walkers, and the most beautiful back I have ever seen.
Page 9 - More walkers, and then I distorted time and space to draw me walking. Except my legs aren't actually that long.
Page 10 - I wandered down to the beach and found some amusing semi-clothed people including an old guy in a speedo. Thanks to lots of naked life drawing, as soon as people start showing more skin, I get a lot better at drawing them. Curses.
Page 11 - I stumbled upon the heronry by the park. It was amazing. My dad may get to see dinosaur bones in Edmonton this week but I got to see living dinosaurs up in the trees! They must have been this year's young because they looked like they were sort of testing out their wings and they didn't have the sleek heads of the adults. Occasionally there'd be a fight and then they even sounded like dinosaurs, or like dinosaurs should have sounded, or like something in Jurassic Park at least. And I got a feather. My six-year-old self was very happy about that, a real heron feather. If my six-year-old self knew that my twenty-four-year-old self would be living within walking distance of a Great Blue Heron colony, she would be looking for the skip-eighteen-years button despite all intentions of savouring childhood.
Page 12 - More herons
Page 13 - People walking at a different beach; one lady brushes hair out of her face.
Page 14 - People standing and walking, and half a seagull
Page 15 - Someone standing interestingly, three heads, and punk love.

Date: 2006-07-03 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wicked-warrior.livejournal.com
aaah, life drawing. I can't wait till my exams are over to start practice again, my body structures are starting to look cheesy... again
But it's great to see your sketches back again, they're so varied and dynamic ^^ (eee! herons! :) )

punk love

Date: 2006-07-03 09:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-lloth.livejournal.com
nothing makes you wanna go "Awwwwww!" more than punk love. *nods Knowingly*

Date: 2006-07-03 10:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalamazia.livejournal.com
does Mr punk love wear a t-shirt?
O_O

Anyway...I love your art and your version of Lupin(best-ever-seen)...may I friend u????

Date: 2006-07-03 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chinchilla82.livejournal.com
Aw man, that seemed like such a good time. I wanted to go on SketchCrawl on Saturday, but then realized that I would be going into NJ in the early afternoon. It's tough to sketch while dragging around bags. So I thought I would go on Friday instead...but it rained. I'll have to do it on my own at some other point.

However! I love your sketches. Looks like a nice productive day. I think my favorite is the one of half the seagull. ^_~

Date: 2006-07-03 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonmystique.livejournal.com
Great studies! I haven't really done any life drawing that's not nude models yet xD But I will! You've captured some great expressions and movement in those! =D

Date: 2006-07-03 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anathelen.livejournal.com
Thanks to lots of naked life drawing, as soon as people start showing more skin, I get a lot better at drawing them. Curses.

I spent Saturday evening pretending I was doing a sketchcrawl by sketching people at an outdoor concert in a park, and then Sunday sketching people at the seashore. Looking at the difference in quality between the two days, I suffer from the same phenomenon you do. *shakes fist at oh-so-helpful life drawing classes*

Date: 2006-07-03 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azvolrien.livejournal.com
I like that little alleyway thing. I would have gone on an Edinburgh sketchcrawl, but I'm too lazy. So I went and took photos of a stuffed tiger.

On the World Cup front: ENGLAND ARE OUT! WOOHOO!

Yay, Herons! You draw 'em well. I see a lot of herons around Edinburgh. Some of them hang out around the sealion enclosure at the Zoo. I saw one at the Botanics. (Celeste: What's that big bird? It's got a long neck that it just pulled in. Is it a stork? Me: That's a heron.) A couple of them come and massacre tadpoles in my dad's pond.

Date: 2006-07-03 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] salamandersoup.livejournal.com
D'oh! I forgot about Sketchcrawl! Some day soon I'll have to make it up.

Your life drawings are ... mesmerizing. I could just stare at them all day. 8)

Date: 2006-07-04 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lync180.livejournal.com
Ahhh, it looked like so much fun. I wish I could of came. Nice sketches like always, I really enjoyed the sketches of the alleys. Very nice.

Date: 2006-07-04 01:25 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You magically just reminded me of Lilo and her obsession with taking pictures of fat people in Lilo and Stitch. So many people... all so chubby... >

Date: 2006-07-04 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com
It was weird – there are, statisticaly, very few overweight people in this city. It was like they all came out for the party. Or maybe they were tourists. I must have been distracted by them for how much I drew them, I suppose...

Date: 2006-07-04 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trashcanbaby.livejournal.com
the punk love looks like someone i know...except its hard to tell those kinds of things by a few lines and a mohawk? meh. i always like to see your drawings, they be good.
im sad i couldn't make it out for the sketchcrawl.

Date: 2006-07-04 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rawrsie.livejournal.com
aaah, niice ones. you make me feel like such a slacker :)

Date: 2006-07-04 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com
Aw, thanks. Where are yours? Hmm? I know you drew something.

Date: 2006-07-04 06:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amy-is-my-name.livejournal.com
Wonderful herons. Oddly enough I've seen them here in Phoenix, AZ in the spring. They like to eat the koi in my backyard. You do a wonderful job sketching them.

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