Thursday, August 26, 2010

Sketches of the Day

Ball point pen stuff.

Sitting in the doc's office, waiting for a friend (to drive him home), and reading William Silvers' (of Disney fame) new book on acrylic painting... I got out the blue pen and doodled:

Reading V for Vendetta, and thought I'd practice on a few of the characters:


Not so good....My portrait sketching often looks like caricaturing, with too-big eyes, etc...:

Overall, blue ballpoint pen sketching is convenient and a good exercise. You can't erase.

3 comments:

Esly Carrero said...

Put the novels away & open up your bible! :)

Cool drawings.. for ballpoint pens! Nice job.

Michael "Locoduck" Duron said...

Looks like Luandra. Looks good.

Tim Gardner said...

She's much prettier in real life... I still haven't done that painting of her I've been promising for, like, three years or something... She probably doesn't even LIKE "A Clockwork Orange" anymore... lol