Calling Artists and Art Lovers

[Pelado]

I've doodled during meeting for years. It gives me something to do, and helps me pay attention. I have these random drawings on programs and agendas scattered around the house, and I drew a picture for my mother once of my brothers and me, but I never really collected them. My wife finally bought me a sketch book a few months ago, and I've had a lot of fun with it. I'm not a great artist, but I enjoy it.

If you are an artist or just like art, post your favorites here. I'd like to learn more and be better. Meanwhile, here are a few of mine. I only do pen and ink because I struggle with some colors.

A lot better than what I can draw. Are you using anything as a basis for the drawings - photographs, etc., or just drawing a scene from memory?

[tooblue]

Thanks for the pointers. I'll try to pay attention to my lines on the sketch I'm working on and see if I can make them more concise. My favorite artist is CM Russell, and it seems like his lines are all over the place but they still work. Being partially color blind kind of hampers me, but I want to try a larger drawing than a 5X9 sketch pad. Obviously, I'd need a larger pen, or would I use charcoal?

There are three CM Russell prints hanging on the wall in my youngest boys bedroom.

It might be fun to get pen's with varying thickness and just experiment. Being partially colour blind can work to your advantage—a limited colour palette can be very liberating:

https://citizensketcher.com/2014/09/19/limited-color/

[cowboy]

Lovely sketches. Your searching lines and cross hatching technique to create tone are nicely done. Can I suggest in your next couple of sketches you carefully consider the quality of all your line work, in particular the potential of thick and thin lines, as well as lost and found lines. They help delineate contour and can create the illusion of volume or weight. Also, they allow you to play with notions of positive and negative space. One of the benefits of lost and found lines is they let the viewer, in their mind's eye, finish the drawing for themselves:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UEGdYuh355...+and+found.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/a7...fde5fbde80.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7c/b8/e7/7...r-drawings.jpg

You can also try smudging your ink with your finger while it's still fresh to create solid tone. In combination with cross hatching, it can be very effective.

When your'e ready to tackle colour, I recommend you start by learning to work with one or two colours only—the more limited your colour palette the better.

I really like the work of Richard Johnson, especially his Kandahar Journal:

https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpr...ngsoldier1.gif

http://nationalpost.com/tag/kandahar-journal

Thanks for the pointers. I'll try to pay attention to my lines on the sketch I'm working on and see if I can make them more concise. My favorite artist is CM Russell, and it seems like his lines are all over the place but they still work. Being partially color blind kind of hampers me, but I want to try a larger drawing than a 5X9 sketch pad. Obviously, I'd need a larger pen, or would I use charcoal?

[tooblue]

Cowboy could be the next Fredric Remington:

[tooblue]

I've doodled during meeting for years. It gives me something to do, and helps me pay attention. I have these random drawings on programs and agendas scattered around the house, and I drew a picture for my mother once of my brothers and me, but I never really collected them. My wife finally bought me a sketch book a few months ago, and I've had a lot of fun with it. I'm not a great artist, but I enjoy it.

If you are an artist or just like art, post your favorites here. I'd like to learn more and be better. Meanwhile, here are a few of mine. I only do pen and ink because I struggle with some colors.

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Lovely sketches. Your searching lines and cross hatching technique to create tone are nicely done. Can I suggest in your next couple of sketches you carefully consider the quality of all your line work, in particular the potential of thick and thin lines, as well as lost and found lines. They help delineate contour and can create the illusion of volume or weight. Also, they allow you to play with notions of positive and negative space. One of the benefits of lost and found lines is they let the viewer, in their mind's eye, finish the drawing for themselves:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UEGdYuh355...+and+found.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/a7...fde5fbde80.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7c/b8/e7/7...r-drawings.jpg

You can also try smudging your ink with your finger while it's still fresh to create solid tone. In combination with cross hatching, it can be very effective.

When your'e ready to tackle colour, I recommend you start by learning to work with one or two colours only—the more limited your colour palette the better.

I really like the work of Richard Johnson, especially his Kandahar Journal:

https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpr...ngsoldier1.gif

http://nationalpost.com/tag/kandahar-journal

[smokymountainrain]

on top of everything else, you draw like that? wtf?

[cowboy]

I've doodled during meeting for years. It gives me something to do, and helps me pay attention. I have these random drawings on programs and agendas scattered around the house, and I drew a picture for my mother once of my brothers and me, but I never really collected them. My wife finally bought me a sketch book a few months ago, and I've had a lot of fun with it. I'm not a great artist, but I enjoy it.

If you are an artist or just like art, post your favorites here. I'd like to learn more and be better. Meanwhile, here are a few of mine. I only do pen and ink because I struggle with some colors.

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