Sketchbook, beginning of May

My favorite is the little catman. He has a choppy and scratchy meow, mew, mow.
Texture Texture. I hope to expand on that and detail. Freckles and wrinkles are the most comfortable yet challenging to draw. Well, I suppose that not drawing them makes it harder because I have to pay more attention to the basic shapes and shadings so that it will look full and finished even without them. Both the people were pictures from library books. A book on Julia Margaret Cameron provides profile pictures that im very attracted to draw. I prefer to draw elderly so working off her photos provides a new practice for me of drawing youthful people.

Stay under the tent (statement of intent)

I aim to use as many textures as possible. Recently I've been wearing my magnifying glass around my neck in search for textures that we would not normally see and have also been paying attention to the small strip drawings in children's books at the beginning or end of each chapter which has encouraged me to add boarders around the drawings. These are the sorts of small accenting drawings I plan on creating. Some more things I plan on practicing though my drawings, collages, contrast (to help understand the middle grounds of light and dark), still life, and most importantly, will be practicing the basic human figure (in the form of Native North American clowns). 

Clowns/Sacred fools

links

The Song of Sixpense illustrated by Walter Crane

Walter Cranes Illustrations for Grimm's Fairy Tales

Harrison Weir

Edward S. Curtis

A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

Harrison Weir and other illustrations and photos

Kudu horn!

Balzac

My two new favorite illustrators are Walter Crane and Balzac.

Symbionese Liberation Army project

This is a drawing 6in by 3in that I did to go along with my presentation over the SLA.