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| 6/16/12, Copic Multiliner SP pen |
The Seattle Urban Sketchers met at the Seattle Center for a
sketchcrawl of a Habitat for Humanity site. Called House of the Immediate Future and World House, the structures being built there are intended to
raise awareness of Habitat for Humanity during the Center’s Next 50
celebration.
The construction site – stacks of lumber, bare studs, lots
of parallel lines and perspective challenges – was overwhelming, and I didn’t
know where to begin. So I took the easy way out and warmed up with several
gesture studies of some of the volunteer workers.
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| 6/16/12, F-C Pitt Artist Pen, watercolor, Stillman & Birn sketchbook |
Eventually I moved to a
different location and spotted a bright yellow forklift, but I thought the
composition needed a human or two. Munching a protein bar for lunch, I pondered
the composition a while. Cue fellow sketcher Chris, who stopped to sketch the
forklift himself. He was exactly what I needed to give the heavy equipment a
sense of scale. I sketched Chris first, knowing that he would probably wander
away soon, which he did, and I finished the sketch in time to join the others
for show and tell.
That sounds like a fun location for sketching. I love that you did the figure to show the scale of the forklift. I would probably be focusing on piles of lumber or hardhats. lol Great suggestion to do figures from the sports section!
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