10/22/12 Diamine Grey ink, Zig brush markers, Hand Book |
Sunday’s sketchcrawl was a stroke of weather luck; shortly
after I got home that day, it started raining (sleeting, actually!), and it
hasn’t stopped since. Needing a dry place to sketch, I headed for the Green
Lake Zoka.
(Last spring when I first started this blog, I routinely
referred to an unnamed coffee shop as the location for many sketches. Fairly new
to sketching in public, I was paranoid that if I named the location in my blog,
the patrons I’d been sketching would be outraged, and I’d eventually be banned
from my favorite coffee shop. Now that I’ve been sketching for more than a
year, I realize that no one cares who or what I sketch, so I’m fine with blatantly
naming the place. In fact, I’m even giving them a plug to express my thanks for
the many hours I occupy their tables. Thanks, Zoka, for the luscious scones and
mochas!)
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After a few head sketches, I realized that I’ve lost my
coffee shop sketching mojo. All those urban sketches that filled my sketchbooks
during the summer improved my skills with drawing architecture and trees.
And all the musical performers I sketched at farmer’s markets helped me
with figure proportions and action. But what happened to the portraits I used
to lithely and stealthily put down on paper between sips of joe?
It’s like I keep saying: It’s all about practice. If
you don’t, you get rusty. And as I’ve also noted before, the frustrating part
is that progress is not progressive. Or maybe I have a selective memory, and
my portrait sketches were never as lithe as I recall. No matter – there’s a
long winter ahead, and plenty of time to practice.
10/22/12 Diamine Grey ink, Zig brush marker, Hand Book sketchbook |
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