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well.. today's gestures.. i guess i should try and mix up more.. try different things with the gestures, Don't want to bore people. I was actually looking more.. drawing less today.. looking for angles.. and parts that could be represented by straights or curves.. or squash and stretch.. it was kind of neat.. doing a quick gesture.. and then redrawing that gesture a couple times.. drawing after carefully observing is pretty useful.

new stuff

just checking in with some more gestures.

lion studies

oops.. forgot to post this with the gestures..

gestures

some more... getting used to the ball point pen again.

paint

guess i need more practice...

pen stuff

well switched back to newsprint and ballpoint pen.. .. weird though.. my hand isn't used to pen anymore.. to used to doing the gestures in graphite.. oh well..

more stuff

just finished the sketchbook.. time to start on a new one... still don't know about this not lifting the pencil thing.. I think it gets too messy.. and puts a lot of messy line on the page.. it looks ok some of the time.. I'm trying to combine this with the other method of lifting the pencil off the page... anyway. i guess i'll try some more later.

gestures..

well.. i did a little something different on these ones.. didn't lift the pencil off the page.. don't know if that makes these messier or what.. but it felt different drawing them that way... I think visually it makes them a bit more interesting.. but.. does it take away from the clarity?...I don't know..anyway, maybe the difference isn't too noticeable..

more stuff

a couple more

gestural stuff

some more gestures, haven't had time to post in the last couple days.

heads..

tried to see how much i understood about planes.. painted this from a line drawing as opposed to a tonal drawing.

more gestures

some gestures from the last couple days.

gestures

some gestures on the ride home. :D

animal stuff

mostly studies and such... another inspiring site with animals... (http://elephantart.blogspot.com) great elephants.

more..

well wanted to do another study.. really liked a painting of alfred hitchcock I saw on patrick mate's blog (http://patrickmate.blogspot.com/) so I did a value study of it.

another head painting

i think i'm starting to get the hang of values.. sort of.. though.. it seems like i'm losing a lot of construction when I paint these.... everytime I finish.. and start flipping the heads, to check.... i get these wonky head... i guess I should construct it better..

quick sketching

Some more from the ol sketchbook. Thanks to everyone for the recent increase in comments.

valentines..

haha i'm early.. valentine thing i was drawing for my gf. :D.. i cropped out the rest of the card.. ;)

gestures

still been doing these daily.. but.. haven't done any really great ones in awhile.. and i figured people would be tired of seeing these. oh well.. some more from the new sketchbook.. Been getting inspired by all the great blogs out there.

piggy

colour sketch.. line drawing was originally rejected.. it's kind of wonky.. oh well.. i wanted to colour something..