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I've been making sketches all year, and sometimes I remember to scan them, but somehow getting them up onto The Internet is just that one step too far.
Well, I've just got through most of my summer ones on Tumblr, so here they are in one massive post.
I walk past this pub/bar/restaurant every time I go the dull way to get groceries, but it always seemed like the sort of place you go on a date or with a big group, so I never got up the gumption to drop in myself. My erstwhile pub-buddy housemate got a boyfriend in July, and invited me to join them here one night. It's a pretty cool place inside, and excellent for people-watching from the gallery. Finally being one of nature's third wheels has paid off in my benefit ... but, having been now, and having my suspicions confirmed, I'd feel even more weird about wandering in on my own.
It's a personal amusement that my neighbours are probably wizards (they aren't, but .... they totally are) so when I was invited to catsit for them while they were "in Italy" (i.e. the Quidditch World Cup) I had an unrivalled Muggle opportunity to draw their Kneazle:
I've been trying to work on more polished drawings lately, but was asked to teach a gesture drawing class in August, so spent an afternoon reacquainting myself with that art form.
Of course, it's hard to pass up the old familiar places that always deliver, drawing-wise ...
The Mill is right by the pool on the Cam where one of the punting tour/rental companies is located, so it's a good place to watch tourists try not to fall in the water. I discovered, upon beginning to draw here, that my ink wash brush pen was out of water, so I filled it from the river. What's a little smell in the interest of maximum authenticity? Maybe biologists in the future will study my sketchbook under a microscope to see what the microflora of the Cam was like in 2016. I can but hope.
Some more gesture sketches on one of the narrow shopping streets in the historic core ... there's a shop with recessed windows which makes the best vantage point for capturing people as they walk by.
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Well, I've just got through most of my summer ones on Tumblr, so here they are in one massive post.
I walk past this pub/bar/restaurant every time I go the dull way to get groceries, but it always seemed like the sort of place you go on a date or with a big group, so I never got up the gumption to drop in myself. My erstwhile pub-buddy housemate got a boyfriend in July, and invited me to join them here one night. It's a pretty cool place inside, and excellent for people-watching from the gallery. Finally being one of nature's third wheels has paid off in my benefit ... but, having been now, and having my suspicions confirmed, I'd feel even more weird about wandering in on my own.
It's a personal amusement that my neighbours are probably wizards (they aren't, but .... they totally are) so when I was invited to catsit for them while they were "in Italy" (i.e. the Quidditch World Cup) I had an unrivalled Muggle opportunity to draw their Kneazle:
I've been trying to work on more polished drawings lately, but was asked to teach a gesture drawing class in August, so spent an afternoon reacquainting myself with that art form.
Of course, it's hard to pass up the old familiar places that always deliver, drawing-wise ...
The Mill is right by the pool on the Cam where one of the punting tour/rental companies is located, so it's a good place to watch tourists try not to fall in the water. I discovered, upon beginning to draw here, that my ink wash brush pen was out of water, so I filled it from the river. What's a little smell in the interest of maximum authenticity? Maybe biologists in the future will study my sketchbook under a microscope to see what the microflora of the Cam was like in 2016. I can but hope.
Some more gesture sketches on one of the narrow shopping streets in the historic core ... there's a shop with recessed windows which makes the best vantage point for capturing people as they walk by.