A few years back, a friend of mine got a summer job at Yellowstone National Park, so a group of us decided to make a road trip of it and drive him to Wyoming. We’re all getting older and moving away, so this was one of the last times that we would all be together, especially for an extended length of time. Yellowstone is a beautiful park, but I didn’t enjoy the trip so much because of the scenery but because of the people I was with, and the celebration of how far we’d come. Our last night, on the way back, we stayed in the house of some relative of a guy on the trip in Middle-of-Nowhere, North Dakota. This collage is that night, when we stayed up late into the night playing pinball and drinking soda.
Month: November 2020
Sketchbook 9
Prompt 9 asks for a doodles, so I filled a sketchbook page.
As the documentary we watched suggested, this doodle does reveal my unconscious mind. I tend to be pretty interested in things – planes, rockets, cars – but I also drew a few more natural forms as well. Also, I experimented a little with color
Sketchbook 8
Cathy Nan Quinlan sketched small, single plants. I mimicked this by drawing in Ohio State’s Chadwick Arboretum.
Quinlan’s sketches are almost academic, but seem to be done quite quickly, mainly capturing form with only the most important detail.
Project 7 – Planes in Space
Above is my planes in space drawing. I’m quite happy with how this turned out; it was exactly as I intended. This was the first project in which I used color. I think this was a very good introduction to color because my aim wasn’t photo realism. I could color my planes without worrying about if it matched reality, giving me some leeway in that department.
Below is a picture of the under drawing and a picture of the initial concept sketch.
Sketchbook 7
Here I followed Prompt 8, in which I quickly and lightly sketched my wallet and a mason jar, then went back over them with a darker pencil a la Leonardo da Vinci. The lines from the second time over are more decisive and detailed.
