my first attempt to do something sketchy on iPad Pro. Getting there.
I tried to do buffalo from memory/imagination but they didn't remotely look like buffalo; there is something important about their profile that I just wasn't getting. Finally resorted to consulting a photograph and came up with this, and am trying to commit its characteristics to memory so I can just do one from thin air. So far no success. My other buffalo sketches are to embarrassing to post.
Entirely from imagination. Probably not quite right for a bull, but there is something about this that I like a lot, the line quality I guess..
Started by drawing the point of my dog's nose during the three seconds he sat still, and then the drawing took on its own life and turned out as a beagle or something. My dog is definitely not a beagle. But I like the attitude of this guy, whoever he is.
I was doing quick small sketches at the dog park and this is one of them. It's really pieces of various dogs as they went by.
The jaw/chin isn't right and I may work on it more, but I'm happy with the "dog stretched out in flight" aspect.
I wasn't happy with the sketch so I started brushing on colored and black india inks, and stopped when I liked the lighting effect. I think the eye, nostril, and mouth need to be darker, and other things, and I may get the courage to try to change them.
I started this during a meeting, sitting in the back row, then took some furtive looks at photographs to make it better. Quite happy with how he's leaning. I think he's shifting his weight in order to move one leg forward ... and maybe come spit on me.
I love animals that are either front-heavy or back-heavy. I was trying to show the muscle-y-ness of these animals while still conveying a sense of light-footedness and grace. The tail is cool. The eye area isn't so cool.
Done years and years ago for the word "Ostrich" on Draw Something on my phone using the line and the erase functions. This is where I got clued to the idea of "subtracting" adding a nice quality. I did some nice things on Draw Something; I remember a shrimp that I was very fond of.
Quickie, during another endless meeting, I think on my phone.
Some day I will clean this up and maybe it will be more successful. I love ostrich legs and feet. This is okay for what it is, but I have seen watercolorists who do quick sketches of birds and capture the essence in ways I will never even approach. Cathy Gatlin, Jennifer Kraska, Darren Woodhead, Sarah Yeoman. And Karl Martens, but I hesitate to mention him because I don't think he's a mere human.
Quickie, back of the room, etc etc. For once I didn't exaggerate the wings.
Used the Vector, Gradient tool in Sketch Club. Such a cool tool. Just about anything seems to work.
I really like this guy.
For a while when frustrated with regular-size watercolor paintings I would distract myself by doing tiny brush sketches, about 3 cm long, trying to get horsey essence. These are therefore gigantically blown up. There's some potential here.
Another of my prancey long-necked horses that I've been doing since a child. For this one, I upped the gamma almost all the way and the resulting effect was kinda nice.
I actually tried to get proportions right. Didn't quite get there, but not terrible.
Weird thing about this guy. It has been picked up on Pinterest a lot for people's tattoo boards! Well why not. Anyway, it was done long ago, on my smartphone, with my finger, using some long-lost kind of procedural sketch app. I guess it has a certain something. Love those procedural brushes. That app, which I think was put out by the original procedural guy, Mr. Doob, changed my life.
I belong to a Thursday-afternoon drawing open studio where everybody is doing amazing photo-realistic colored pencil things that involve paying microscopic attention to an original photograph, often with tracing. Meanwhile this is the kind of thing I come up with. I don't really know what they think of me, but they are great people and it's time well spent.
