I did 8 paintings/sketches!
sketches
Sketchbooks can be anything you want them to be. Normally, mine are filled with random things. They’ve been started one year, added to another, and finished in yet another year. Many people like to create themes for their sketchbooks. All dogs in one, all flowers in another. The ones I’ve […]
Sketch-A-Long
Well, then I better add some art. The Pilot, watercolor on claybord, ©Elisha Dasenbrock 2014 Private Collection I finished The Pilot a few months back. I can’t remember the type of plane, but it is from WWII.  Here it is framed and ready for its home. I can’t remember the […]
This Is An Art Blog, You Say?
I did not sketch yesterday, but I did two today. The sketchbook skool week was all about color pencils and getting out of your comfort zone. The instructor wanted us to go outside and sketch in front of people. It was cold this week and since I sketched outside last […]
Sketchbook Skool Week 2
I may have gone back to Michael’s and bought the last three of the Strathmore hard bound sketchbooks. I also bought a smaller size and 4 ringed watercolor sketchbooks for scrap paper. Those were half off at about 6 bucks a pop. Sketch skool! I also bought a fountain pen […]
Sketch Skool
2 News: Two of my WIPs are online at DeviantArt. The link is to the left. I have two more, but one is a surprise and they both need to be finished by Friday. I don’t want to take the time to load them twice in a few days because I […]
Mouth and Chin
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Contour
This is a contour drawing. We used colored pencil. You draw very slowly using with your pencil as parallel to the paper as possible. I am really bad at it. Although the ones I picked to put on here are pretty decent (lots of practice). We get 5 minutes for […]
Contour Drawing
This is a conte blocking. You take a piece of conte and use one tone to lay out the basic shape of the person, then you press harder to get another tone for the shadows. You only shade in the darkest shadows and you only use the 2 tones. You […]
Conte Blocking
This is a gesture drawing. They are fun to do, but complicated. You have to sit at the far edge of the bench with your arm straight, drawing by only moving your shoulder and/or elbow, holding the pencil at the back and so lightly that the teacher could just tap […]
Gesture Drawing
This is the first straightline drawing we did for class. This took me the whole week to do and I didn’t get hardly any of her legs finished. Plus I think my teacher did some of it. God that one was so hard. It’s the same lady as the the […]
Straightline Drawing
Just a quick note on sizes All work from class is done on 18 x 24 in paper so unless I take a picture of it to post the whole thing will not be on here. Practice from books is done in my 5 1/2 x 8 in notebook Actual […]
Quick Note on Sketch Sizes
I’ve moved onto the nose, obviously. Just one more page of them before I get to the lips. That’s a large chapter.
Noses 1
Hopefully I will only have 1 page of eyes left and then it’s on to the nose, but that is a much shorter chapter. These are not as good as the other ones. Nothing good from the daily sketch book.
Eyes 3
This is an eye I did on my own. Trying to use all the practice I am getting from that book. It’s done over quick sketches of Tux.
Practice Eye
From a park in the Goldcoast, Newberry Library. From 2004.
Street Lamp
Anything with a page number is practice from “The Human Figure” by John H. Vanderpoel. If I start practicing from another book I will note it in the caption.
Vanderpoel
my shoe, a chain, a singer at the “L” stop, blue line riders