22/4: Zebra

Would you guess that this sketch was based on a toy or photo? It seems obvious to me that it’s from a toy, but then, I saw the toy.

22/1: Toy people

Monumental scale for these little people.  I love how the male character on the left seems to be ogling the female in the middle. Totally accidental, I swear!

18/4: Little kitchen

13/3: After the party

Cleaning up after some mama friends and their little ones came for a visit, I noticed the interesting juxtaposition of the adults’ coffee accouterments and the girls’ playthings.

I can’t seem to put the camera down for the pencil this week.

11/2: Castle

Something that continues to surprise me is how often I begin a drawing, only to be surprised that the subject I chose is more challenging to sketch than I expected.

7/3: Scorpion

More of the same work on pace, with a giant toy arachnid this time around. One area I need to work on is placement– I tend to run off the left side of the page.

7/2: Grasshopper

Still working on last week’s goal, working to improve the pace of my sketching. Here’s one of my kids’ giant insect toys.

6/4: Moving quickly

I decided I need to challenge myself  by working on some quick drawings. I’ve fallen back into a long-time pattern of softly and slowly sketching out each drawing, then gradually filling it in, adding volume and depth. Which is fine, except it’s so sssslllooowww. I can see a lot of benefits to being able to work faster and looser, so I’m going to give it a try. Not thrilled with the results so far, but it’s a starting place.

 

The two items on the right are a white  vinyl eraser and a grey kneaded eraser. Sort of wish I had left them out, but they filled the space nicely.

6/3: More robo-cat in color

Watercolor provided a much greater level of challenge than colored pencil, that’s for sure.

6/2: Robo-cat in color

As long as I sharpened all those colored pencils, I thought I might as well put them to use. I like the results of working in colored pencil, but it didn’t provide the challenge I’m looking for. Not to say my technique couldn’t improve, but it came too easily and was too much fun.

My son decided to try his hand at this one as well. His more true-to-life version reveals the aesthetic change I made.