Sketchbook Dump

May 18, 2020. I like the idea of using a mirror to reflect part of my body and the space behind me. This might be a painting in the making.

May 19, 2020. After the feet in the mirror drawing, I realized I had to work on depicting my feet accurately. Hence this spread.

May 20, 2020. Getting a little stir crazy in my apartment and craving some fresh air while maintaining self isolation. Fortunately I have a small back porch that looks onto a parking pad area which is quite often used by people late at night as an alternate toilet site. This is my neighbourhood.

May 22, 2020. Inspired by my last drawing of the parking pad, here’s another perspective from the end of the pad looking back tot he rear entry to my unit. All this drawing happened before my morning coffee. I think all this self isolation is affecting me and might happen again tomorrow morning.

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Looking to the ground today for my drawing inspiration. There might be a painting in this!

Ren

A virtual sitting with a friend today who lives in Halifax. Isn’t technology great? I’ll have a second chance next weekend to get her right.

May 15, 2020. Sketch of my rat hole, err… I meant, apartment. With all this self isolation, it’s been a great opportunity to sketch everyday. I don’t know if it feels like a habit though. I read somewhere that doing something for 21 days straight forms a habit. To be quite frank, if i didn’t sketch tomorrow, I’m not too sure i’d have the urge to sketch. It’s more guilt, I suspect, that would drive me to sketch since I want to make art the primary source of income for me. I need to produce art EVERY DAY. It doesn’t have to be great art. It just has to be art.

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Trying to capture space through my drawings instead of just objects.

Pasquale

My talented animator/caricaturist friend.

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By the time isolation is called off, I think I’ll have sketched every inch of my apartment. Here’s the next interesting spot of my rat hole, errr… I meant, apartment.

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An interior sketch and a virtual sketch of a friend. I asked my friend to sit by the window for his sitting and over the course of an hour, the light changed so much. It was a challenge getting this drawing done.

Brian

Sketchbook Dump

It’s nice to get back to some sketching. I realize I’m the type of artist who tends to have tunnel vision. When I’m painting, I’m painting. When I’m drawing in my sketchbook, I’m drawing. I need to find a balance this year.

Dad

Sketchbook dump…

Getting kinda lazy about my sketchbook uploads. So here’s a few spreads I’ve been saving up.

Milan 2019

I had the opportunity to visit MIlan, Italy for the first time from March 2-11. I was like a kid in a candy story. Around every corner there was a scene that could have been put down on paper. Unfortunately I only had 5 days to sketch. Here are the drawings I produced on this trip. It definitely is a city I have to visit again.

Killing time before class…

Weekends are usually the days where I sketch. This past particular weekend, I was on a run. I sketched Friday, Saturday and Monday (this sketch done on a statuary holiday). Leading up to this sketch I was a little angry that I wasted Sunday so when saw Lina, my mission was to sketch her. I wasted no time and just went up her and asked if she would mind. The rest is history. I need to harness that attitude every time I want to sketch someone in public. NO HESITATION!

cold weather+warm cafe= blissful sketching session

I remind myself whenever I sketch for a few days in a row that sketching like any skill deteriorates if not used. It typically starts with the first day feeling a little rusty and getting the cogs working properly and the subsequent days falling into the comfortable groove. It also helps whenever i sketch people in public that they aren’t nervous whenever I look at them AND yes I do ask if I could sketch them, as was the case with Steve and Jason today: very laid back guys.

Nice to Sketch Again

I’ve been busy painting lately and have been neglecting my sketching practice. I had a chance to sketch at Futures Bistro and do a work sketch of my co worker. It was nice to exercise that muscle again.