The Cat Muse helped me with my return to charcoal sketching. The bamboo skewers help me with the ellipse of the bowl opening and the spacial relationship between the plum and the white vase.
Muse of the arts
For this sketch, I decided to create the shapes only using the tones; I didn’t draw the shapes at all. Dark objects still present difficulties for me; they should be more than a shadowy glob.
Shaped by shadows
Dreamy puppy
‘Tis the season. Pumpkin sketching season, that is.
My first sketch. Looks like a pumpkin. Or what I think a pumpkin looks like; just not like the pumpkin I was looking at, so I abandoned the sketch.
Recognizable as a pumpkin
The real pumpkin.
Pumpkin model
My second effort. And there is something funny about this one. The real pumpkin is a little lopsided but my drawing doesn’t reflect it accurately. Usually it’s the other way around: my drawing is lopsided and the model objects are not. I’m looking forward to the time when my drawings match the model shapes. Won’t that be something to celebrate.
Second try
This was only my second independent (not in class) sketching effort.
Some neighborhoods in Texas have white-tailed deer as live yard ornaments.
Here’s lookin’ at ya, kid!
Still has some spots
Antlers
A storm came through this morning. After the rain, the clouds started breaking up.
Sunshine through clouds
