Monday, October 18, 2010

You Know, Stiff Upper Lip and All That

I've started on a project of expanding my sketching repertoire. To this end, I took some old catalogues that were hanging around my apartment and cut some small pictures out of them, to sketch on the train. Here is one I completed just yesterday - hot off the presses, the pages literally smoking, from my sketchbook straight to this blog!


I thought the advice printed on these various items was pretty sound. They were a helpful reminder as I filled in every line of woodgrain in the copious background. Ah, how I suffered!

Though the lines of the cups and other items are a bit wobbly, I actually like the way it looks. Also keep in mind I drew almost every line of this while sitting inside a trundling subway car, so don't judge the steadiness of my hand by these lines alone!

I don't have much else to say about this drawing, but in case my brevity has left you feeling shortchanged, I will also post here a recent sketch I made of my cat. It was a rare moment when he was sleeping AND I had my sketchbook nearby. In his ritual thwarting of my plans (more on that in future posts), he woke up and padded away less than one minute after I started drawing. But at least I got this much:


There will be more drawings to come, some like this one, some completely different. Stay tuned.



2 comments:

  1. Hi, just got here by way of your New York Times drawing blog comment... I like your Keep Calm drawing very much because of the contrast between the hypnotizing background and the blank simplicity of the objects. I also can see a big improvement from the past drawing in your blog and the new way of hatching on the cat. Good job!

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  2. Love the cat. Can't wait to hear the stories.

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