Good Sketching Day at Governor's Island

I finally got brave enough to draw in my moleskine (sketchbook). I have a bit of a block with that book. I have to get over thinking that it's special paper. Eventually I'll get to the point where I draw with the micron straight out.

All of these are in progress.....

Update on View from LIC

Further work on that pencil sketch I posted a few days ago.

Not very happy with this...its okay but I should have simplified more. I've been learning the value to conveying the idea of the space without getting overwhelmed with details. Some sketchers that I admire out there can really get into the minutiae of a scene and master it. I don't have that skill yet.

Or! I'm being extremely hard on myself.

Getting Tips, Taking Notes

Was reading Watercolor by Alwyn Crawshaw and took some visual notes. These images are imitations but are my little drawings for the day.

View from LIC

In progress. Still working on it...adding cars. This one has a lot of 'mistakes'/edits. I'm getting better at letting them go and just drawing the new line.

Sushi Warakanube

Dinner sketches

Amtrak - Sacramento to Oakland

On the train I tried to sketch at full speed. Then this evening I went over some in ink. Moderately successful.

More Adventures in Watercolor and Coffee

Post-cupping hyper coffee sketching. Adding color to a previous sketch and drawing the roaster that Ed used to roast our coffee the night prior. Plus a San Francisco Lessingia night drawing.

Fort Point

Zen Center

I've always wanted to draw the Zen Center.

Living Trees

Green San Francisco

Ubiquitous Airplane Sketch

20 min

Should this have taken 20 minutes? No. But I like that I'm getting a little bit better.

Being Productive in the Afternoon

Additional interviewees.

Am I capturing them? I'm feeling better about it.

Productively Watching Interviews

Again watching interviews of artists. Again attempting to draw their faces. I'm actually quite pleased with one of them.

Subway hands and an attempt on drawing another human

Someday I will figure out human proportions.

On the Town

Trying to draw while out and about.

Watching Interviews

While watching interviews of artists in the book An Illustrated Journey that Danny Gregory put together, I realized that I really should be sketching their portraits. And I don't do portraits. But I decided not to be afraid of the idea of drawing someone's face and go for it. I usually get bogged down with a shyness, I suppose, thinking that the people I'm drawing may not like what I'm doing or how I'm interpreting them. And now I'm putting them online. Who am I?