ArtzBox.com: July 2005

Friday, July 29, 2005

Going to Coney Island Beach ---> sketching

Sketching on the beach is fun and challenging at the same time. Today I went to Coney Island Beach .. a spur of the moment vacation: sun, surf, wind, and sketching. Yeip I visited Astroland, as and ate a hotdog from Nathan's Famous on corner of stillwell and surf ave.

The sketches below are ones I made between swimming and sunbathing. Oh and this is perfect place to do live sketching and the models are free too. Live sketching requires alot of speed, For my beach scenes I chose to sacrifice details in effort to capture motion and gestures. THe sketches done on the subway are more detailed as people sat still and I had at least 5-10 minuets to do them vs. a few seconds for running kids on the beach. A friend from art class later commented on sketches, "oh they're so simple" well ... I guess she's never sketch live vs. models who are paid to hold thier pose. Also next time I will bring a big hat as well as big clips to hold my papers in place as beaches are windy places. I had to run after a few of my sketches today and got sun burned while sketching.

Conclusion: This is fun! I'll do it again. Definetly very good for practicing my figure and people drawing skills.

Cute Couple

Cute Couple - location: D train in New York, NY USA. Materials: mechanical pencil on 50lbs drawing paper size 8x10. This was the last sketch of the night.

Girl Looking out of subway window -

Ebony pencil with mechanical pencil highlights. Location: D train (NYC). This one is my favorite .. the little girl is beautiful, too bad I couldn't take a picture of her .. I doubt her father would let me .. but he didn't notice me sketching her.

Man playing games

Old Man by the Sea - ebony pencil on 50 lb drawing paper 8x10 inches. Location: Coney Island Beach 7/28/05.

Man getting a tan - ebony pencil on 50 lb drawing paper 8x10 inches. Location: Coney Island Beach 7/28/05.

sea gull - ebony pencil on 50 lb drawing paper 8x10 inches. Location: Coney Island Beach 7/28/05.

girl running on beach - ebony pencil on paper

mother and daughter on beach - ebony pencil on paper

mother and daughter on beach 2 - ebony pencil on paper

Family on the Beach - ebony pencil on 50 lb drawing paper 8x10 inches. Location: Coney Island Beach 7/28/05.

Couple on the Beach - ebony pencil on 50 lb drawing paper 8x10 inches.

mother and son - ebony pencil on 50 lb drawing paper 8x10 inches.

Monday, July 25, 2005

pencil sketch - This was done on the subway on my way to class ..sketchbook needed to be full as much as possible for better grade

self portrait pencil on paper my hand and wristwatch and holding 1 piece of potato chip. Yes I was finishing my lunch along with the very last of my sketches for my sketchbook to be graded ...figured this was perfect :)

self portrait - pencil on paper ... so now what's that hole signify and the weather vane on top?

pencil sketch -of Laz my fellow art classmate sitting adjacent from me. I wanted to see how well I could sketch him ... not good enough it seems. Well at least you can see it's a male subject :)

pencil sketch - done on suway - subject was a big heavily muscled black man and completely obilvious to the world .. dead asleep. thank god for that too otherwise I'd been too scared to sketch him, because you know not everyone likes to be sketched.

pencil sketch - This was done on the subway on my way to class ..sketchbook needed to be full as much as possible for better grade. I think this lady has the most expressive face ... deep intense eyes behind big wire rimmed gasses with frizzy curly hair, trim plucked arched brows ..she could be a researcher, librarian or a scientist. Then again .. I could be wrong and she some other profession ..I enjoyed sketching her