It's the first day of the One Week 100 People global drawing challenge. I
decided to use a new black Pocket Brush Pen by Pentel on my second sketch below. The pen has
cartridges that can be replaced and I figured it might be a good idea to
have some backup this week. I imagine I will be using a lot more ink
than usual!
It got pretty cold this afternoon when I was finally able to scout out one of our local Starbucks stores. I spent 30 minutes on 6 out of 7 sketches in my Stillman & Birn Zeta sketchbook. I haven't used the smooth paper from the Zeta series before. My usual Sharpie Stylo pen just glides over the surface! I had to wait about 14 minutes to sketch the girl at the drive thru window because I only got glimpses between customers. By the time I left, it felt distinctly like snow was in the air! (It is snowing outside as I post this!)
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| These 7 sketches were done from life on location. |
This morning, I caught a glimpse of a photo from Rome, which had a few urban sketchers in it. I liked the group shot, so used it to try out my new materials.
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| This one's from a photo, so doesn't really qualify as an urban sketch. It was not drawn on location- a weird dichotomy since I referred to a photo of 10 urban sketchers. |
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| 4 kids in a snow flurry |
The last sketch brings the total up to 21, since I'm counting partial people. These kids arrived at the North Cascades Institute for Spring Mountain School amidst a thick flurry of snow. Three out of four were delighted and I wanted to see if I could capture the various reactions on their faces as they got off the bus.
I used a reference photo from the NCascades IG feed for reference.
