Sketches!

Warm up drawings from this site: [link]

Figure Drawings

Figure drawings from my last two sessions.

Drawings Galore!

I've been on fire, drawing up a storm!

Sketches done while watching Arrested Development:


Sketches while watching the film, Agora:


Sketches while watching Dexter. Dexter is so cute!

Sketches from Gladiator:


Random ink and watercolor sketches:
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Kanook sketches


Sketches of lions from the zoo.


Sketches from my trip to Lynchburg, Virginia.


Sketches of me as a kid


Sketches from "Myst the Book of Atrus"


Sketches from pictures on Piccsy.com:


Random sketches:


Sketches done while watching Spartacus: Gods of the Arena and Spartacus: Blood and Sand:

Sketches from a Bathhouse in San Francisco

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In Japantown, San Francisco, there is a communal bathhouse called "Kabuki." I desperately wanted to go, since I hadn't been to one since leaving Japan. The hot bath, the cold bath, the sauna, the steam room ... afterwards, you feel like a million dollars!

After an hour's happy bathing, I had curry rice for lunch and did these sketches.

Sketches from San Francisco

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I went to San Francisco for a few days, accompanying my boyfriend for the AGU conference. We stayed at the "Queen Anne" hotel in Japantown. The Queen Anne used to be a school for girls. It was very adorably decorated with Christmas gear. I drew some of the fancy pieces of furniture.

We also went to the Academy of Sciences museum, ergo the wild dog, toad, ibex and the stingray.

Figure Drawing from Life and Photos

The following are a mix of drawings from life and from photos. Before going to the figure drawing session, I warmed up by doing 1 minute sketches from the "Artistic Nude" section of Deviantart. I used a timer even! I think it was helpful for staying loose during the figure drawing class.

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Figure Drawings from life and from DA's 'Artistic Nude' section

Here are some select drawings from the last few weeks of figure drawing sessions:
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Here's some drawings from DeviantArt's 'Artistic Nude' section.
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Life Drawings

An assemblage of drawings from different figure drawing sessions.
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Pen Sketches

Various pen sketches. Inspiration sources include a farm in Virginia, the National Art Gallery and Lord of the Rings.
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Midsummer Twilight

Painting practice done at the National Gallery of Art. Done in Painter. approx. 2 hours.

More Zoo Sketches

Some birds:

Some ungulates:

Some invertebrates:

Komodo Dragon:

Pen Sketches – Arrested Development and Stewart & Colbert

I LOVE Arrested Development. I consider it the funniest thing ever created. Next to In the Loop.

Here are some Precise V5 pen sketches/gestures done while watching AD on Hulu:

Jason Bateman is so adorable! <3 <3

I am also a big fan of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Here's some quick sketches done while watching:

Pen Sketches at the Zoo

Grevy's zebra and asian elephant

Peccaries (and a mischievous squirrel who tried to raid my bag while I was watching the peccaries)

Clouded leopards 1

Clouded leopards 2

I went to the zoo the other day to get some exercise and drew these sketches. Last time I did this, I found it really helpful to stick to one animal for at least a half hour or hour and really work at it until I felt comfortable drawing it's form. But this time, I did my usual thing of moving from animal to animal fairly quickly.