Wanderings and Musings

November 11th, 2007 - It’s been a fair amount of time since I have drawn anything. Finally my daughters just asked me to draw with them for an hour or so and I got into it. I choose the spider out of the blue, but liked the lines and the dark coloring which forces some pre-thought on how you’ll do the shading.

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July 15th, 2006 - Another birthday for my daughter Aleah. Since they now know what they’re getting for their birthday, they start asking for certain subjects. Aleah asked me to draw a few different types of birds, and so I chose these for their colors and poses. Although they weren’t originally in the configuration you see here, I drew them in this way to give a representation of Me and my two daughters.

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April 9th, 2007 - I occasionally go down to a local bar to listen to ‘open mike’ night. And on this particular evening I thought I’d take my sketchbook and draw as I was listening. I really liked the look of all the bottles on the bar, and just started drawing.

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February 1st, 2007 - Ah! The beauty of a woman! The human body is a wonder of shades, highlights and textures. It’s also one of the most difficult things to draw because we are so adept at picking out flaws in the human form. Faces and hands are the most difficult part, so I chose a picture where the face was hidden and I could just focus on the body.

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January 4th, 2007 - Another image chosen purely for how it looked and what I felt like drawing. It wasn’t a very challenging drawing other than the scales taking a long time.

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December 12th, 2006 - No particular reason for choosing this subject to draw other than I really liked the intricate lines involved with the wings.

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December 15th, 2006 - For Briana’s 10th Birthday she chose a horse as the subject she’d most like me to draw for her. Although she knew the subject, she didn’t know what I would choose, so there would still be an element of surprise. I looked up horse images on Google and narrowed the final choice down to this one because of the beautiful lines and muscles showing while the horse is running. Up to this point, this is the picture I spend the most amount of time on… probably over 20 hours. This is a bigger drawing too. It’s on a full sheet of paper.

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November 25th, 2006 - Many times I just flip through the nature book looking for subjects to draw. I found the nautilus to be both a fascinating animal, and it had some wonderful lines and shades to it for attempting to draw.

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November 16th, 2006 - I’m back trying to work through my fur issues Fur and feathers still are very hard for me to get to look realistic and not just lines on paper. This image looked like a good one to try. Plus it had a lot of negative space that I could try bringing the subject to the foreground with a darker background.

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November 11th, 2006 - I took quite a long break from drawing, but finally picked up the pencil again and got to work. The image looks a little weird but is from a real photograph of a baby alligator hatching out of it’s egg. No particular reason that I remember for choosing this image to draw.

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