. A whole lotta attitude

(06-07-2011. I didn't get to finish her as she wasn't on a long time, but I loved this lady.  Lots of attitude, and a non-generic appearance.  Truth be told, I've gotten away from drawing the train people a bit because lots of times they're so damned similar. So I've been mixing it up to keep it interesting. And fun. After all, that's what it's about, right?)

129. Flowers

(06-06-2011. I wandered down to the coffee shop, but with very few people sitting around, the pickings were scarce, so I meandered back home after a couple half-hearted attempts. I noticed that outside in the courtyard there were some plants that were starting to die out and thought that a bit more interesting, so I plopped down and started drawing... until the ants started coming out of the woodwork..er...groundwork...)

128. More Textures

(06-05-2011. I didn't have to look any further than my own side to find something interesting to sketch...)

127. Color

(06-04-2011. Tonight I wanted to play with colors. After much deliberation, I decided that the western sky was pretty cool [and it didn't hurt that I have a scrubby old chair out back to park it in]and so I rounded up a pad of Canson  colored paper for pastels and my boxes of pastels and went out on my back porch [ translated, that means fire escape with cement walkway] and sat for three hours doing a sketch with the fat side of the pastels. A  dim incandescent lightbulb fifteen feet away and darkness coming, I couldn't go so much by hue as by value.  The first time I got an actual look at the finished product was when I brought it inside and flipped on the lightswitch.)

126. not so successful hands

(06-03-2011. Not too bad of an idea, if I'd been able to carry it out.  But I started out too big. It was going to be a sketch of me drawing my hand holding the sketchbook in which you see a drawing of my hand holding the sketchbook, and well...you get the idea.  Trite?   Yes.  Overdone?  Certainly.  But it would have given me more practice in drawing hands....)

125. Feet

(06-02-2011. What did I learn today?  Well, that you could draw feet and still have fun. Similar to the hands drawing that I did before, it is a bit harder to make it look cool all over, since you can't really bend your feet or make a fist to make more interest all over the page...but I think I did pretty good on this one.)

The odd thing, which I'm sure others who like to draw will attest to, is the fact that different days, different moods, you wind up with different favorite pens to use. This particular one is a thicker pen, and the tip doesn't slide really easily across the paper.  Slow down it stutters.  Speed up, it stops stuttering, but you also lose some control.  But like we said...losing control isn't a bad thing.... ;-)

124. Picasso dude.

(06-01-2011. I got a bit tired of waiting for people to turn back and face me, starting over etc.  And since I liked the way it was going, I just decided to run with it. Obviously the guy didn't look like this, but every time he moved a bit I just kept drawing. Sort of Picasso-esque. But it is all about the fun, eh?  And this was fun...)

:)