After two months of drawing every day, sketching has become a habit. Each effort comes with new challenges, new mistakes, and new lessons to learn. Here’s a collection of images from my walks around San Francisco.
Started sketching in a small Moleskine originally intended for jotting random thoughts. Never jotted any, so started sketching in it, exclusively in pen, hoping to encourage more risks by making more mistakes.
Started sketching in the doctor’s waiting room…
Went to get a flu shot…
Sketched at the Smart Car center while waiting for my car to get its own flu shot…
Sketched once I got to school…
Sketched whatever was in the room…
Stopped to sketch while out on a walk…
Sketched from photos taken while walking…
Used graphite on this next one to add some tonal variety…
Sketched again back at the Smart center…
Turned out my car had more than the flu. After eight wonderful years, wound up trading it in for a new all-electric Smart car…
I gave the new car a good-luck kick before signing on the dotted line….
Started out the month sketching simple things at work, whatever was around me…
Then started drawing from photographs I’d taken around the city…
Also tried an exercise from an art book I’m reading. It said to draw with pen alone, no pencil at first; to allow for mistakes; to work fast, carelessly; to capture the gesture and mood and feel of things. I’ve been practicing with a black Paper-mate felt-tip pen on recycled copy paper.
As usual, started out sketching whatever was around me…
Also sketched from photos taken on my urban walks…
Sketched out directions for feeding the dog…
For posterity sake, sketched the view from our seats for the last SF Giants game of the 2016 post-season…
If they’re gonna lose so miserably, better to watch from home, curled up so no one can see you cry…
Had a great time this weekend holding the mic boom for a friend’s film. Did a little doodling both days during lunch. Loved all the technological imagery.
