I have completed the first 2 pages of my sketchbook with the exception of a little round sign on the inside cover that I intend to fill out once my book has been completed and is otherwise ready to mail. May this image bring you as much joy as it does to me:
The Sketchbook Project 2018: Pages 1 & 2
Pages 25-26 of my Cut-Up Sketchbook:
May 24th:
I'm really happy with this one - it reminds me of a Rodin sculpture that I saw at Stanford and loved. I think I'm back to good drawing days...
May 23rd:
Another sketch. I photographed this one at an extreme angle and I think that I really like the proportions it created.
May 20th:
I had an idea for a little creature whose bones got longer as they radiated out from the center of it's body instead of shorter - a creature of backward proportions, so to speak - but it didn't work out quite the way that I planned. This was another poor drawing day. I think that the idea was good, but the execution left a lot to be desired.
May 13th:
I fleshed out the dragon just a bit.
May 12th:
More work on Nathan's dragon drawing cut-up sketchbook page.
May 10th:
My mom's Mother's Day present: a watercolor painting of a little tree frog.
May 6th:
A little drawing of a fennec fox on a playing card.
April 30th:
This is another playing card that I am supremely happy with. Also, I finally figured out which type of ink works best on the playing card surface: Prismacolor marker ink. Who would have thought it? I certainly would not have imagined that Prismacolor markers would ever have worked better than India ink or permanent Sharpie on such a slick surface, but it absolutely does...
April 29th:
I outlined all of my foliage from yesterday to define it and pull it out from the background a bit. I also added a wash of watercolor to the foreground.
April 28th:
I added another mushroom and a bunch of leaves, as well as a wash of background color, to my sketchbook page.
April 27th:
I drew a mushroom. I really wanted a place to practice drawing some of the details that I want on my Mother Nature character, and I decided that my Cut-Up Sketchbook was the perfect place to do it; so I referenced one of the many inspirational photographs that I've collected on my Mother Nature board on Pinterest and put this little mushroom on the page.
April 26th:
I decided that I wasn't particularly happy with the "finished" version of this page, so I used my white opaque marker to tone down the dark colors in the background of the image.
April 22nd:
Back to cards again. I'm extremely happy with this one.
April 17th:
Back to drawing on cards. I'm pretty happy with this one.
April 14th:
Not feeling up to work on the doll couch today - back to playing cards.
April 12th:
Believe it or not, this card is all ink as well - it's just quite a bit of opaque ink.
April 11th:
I just used ink again on this card.