Here’s a look inside my sketchbook. We’re suppose to sketch, sketch, sketch.
Remember the post about my very first art class My freshman in college art class? – where the teacher gave me, just me, a special assignment because I didn’t know how to draw?
That was my first lesson in the value of quantity over quality when it comes to learning . . . ANYTHING.
Carla Sonheim wants us to draw, draw, draw. I’m still working on my 100 flowers . . .
DISCLAIMER: None of these concepts/images orginated with me.
I copied them from various books, pictures and sources to practice drawing.
Character studies
There’s a cow in The Frog Princess
Elephant & Ant study (for the ant not the elephant)
Boid study
Character studies, experimenting with watercolor
You can’t see all the erasure marks in my sketches because I cleverly photographed in poor lighting!
Hands down hands are the hardest to draw whether realistically or cartoonisticlly
CURIOUS to the MAX 
love peeking in your sketch book. and to find out the low lighting trick!!
ah hands, yes so hard to draw. I did a study of a drawing by Degas when I was in college, and he did the most marvelous hands in it. Plus they were at an odd angle. I learned so much from that study! (my figure drawing professor would be so proud that I still think that assignment taught me so much!) : )
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Wendy,
Thanks for the art lesson – I’ll check out Degas’ hands.
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yeah, that bull is rather piasso-esque:) Greace drawing. such expression and body language….with a kick…ha
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Aeeeeeeeda
” . . . with a kick … ” my highest compliment – wish I had thought of that.
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My makeup teacher in college insisted that we draw a face each week. He didn’t care how bad it was or if we used the proportion lines etc. The object was to get us to draw. I actually got pretty good by the end of the semester.
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Vandi,
Practice doesn’t make us perfect but it shore do make us better!
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love them all….especially the rabbit. great expression on his face. weelllll,you proved that teacher wrong. of the new ones the watercolor sketches are my fav….on my desktop.
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Aeeeeeeda,
I would guess that many of us have proved others wrong – especially those of us who have lived long enough to do it!
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….that was supposed to be 50+ daffodils…
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Rick,
I need about 45 daffodil pictures! Your reference to Guernica is spot on – hadn’t thought of that before.
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Most of the 5+ daffodils I planted last fall are starting to bloom, I’ll send you a picture for inspiration for your 100 flower exercise. Love the PIcasso-esque (Guernica) cow/bull!
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