black pencil on 3.28.12

With this week, I was in the mood to create punchy black pencil sketches and I did just that. The prior week I was hatching, so this week I wanted to shade with the side of the pencil. Thats about it. Overall, it was a pretty good week. 


2 min gestures (I went a little crazy with the second page!):

5 min poses: 

15 minute pose (messed up the face): 

20 minute poses (they turned out really well, but some of the fine lines got lost in the scan): 

week 3.14.12 with tombos

I came to class this week, opened up my bag and I noticed that I forgotten my pencil sharpener! So rather than sticking with the original plan, I used the three tombo markers that I knew worked well together. The sketches aren't as detail-y like the pencil ones, but they turned out to look punchy and energetic. 


2 min gestures: 

5 min poses: 

10 minute poses: 

20 minute poses: 

the first week with the 11x14 sketchbook! 1.18.12

This was an interesting week. It involved a model who was liked to pose with props and what seemed like music that they like to play during the renaissance faire. Whatever it was, it made for a pretty good week of sketching. I think the 11x14" size also helped with opening up and being more loose. 


2 min gestures:

5 min poses: 

10 minute pose: 

10 minute on one page, 20 minute on another: 

20 minute pose: 

some more recent stuff from 2.8.12

This week, I decided to use fineliner pen because I hadn't sketched with it for a while. Another thing I wanted to try to do based from the core77 blog forum critique, was to try to do a quicker line drawing and putting focus on one area. These sketches focused on the face. Some are decent, some are pretty good. 

2 min gestures: 

5 minute poses:

10 minute pose:
15 minute pose:

20 minute poses (one with a tiny hand): 

some red pencil sketches from 7.27.11

Here are some red pencil sketches from the first sketchbook. I thought it was a pretty good week. 

2 min gestures: 



10 minute pose:

15 min pose: 

25 min pose:

a little from the old book, a little from the newer one...

With this week, I used a fine point sharpie pen and a wide permanent marker for the sketches. The gestures looked pretty messy, but created a nice grungy effect with the toned paper. As the session went on, I ran out of the pages in the toned sketchbook and switched over to the newer white sketchbook. A wide permanent marker is pretty challenging to use. I think next time, I should use a drier marker! 

2 min gestures: 

5 minute poses: 

15 minute poses: 

sketches from 9.21.11

There were a lot of good sketches for this week. Some maybe a little heavy-handed, but overall, not too bad. 

2 min gestures: 

5 min pose: 

10 min pose: 

15 min pose: 

20 min pose: 

30 min pose: