Sketch Club Mark Catch up!

Finally got a moment to catch up on my Sketch Club marks. So here are the last couple peeps I could remember. :] Since I haven't posted these in a while and for anyone just tuning in, I go to lunch with friends every Friday to get some fresh air and sketch. Once we're finished we pick a random victim, i mean person, to try and memorize and then draw later from memory, whom we lovingly refer to as "the mark." So these are all characters from memory.
Top: Fedora Girl from Royal T (11June10)
Bottom Left: Black and Yellow Lady (25June10)
Bottom Right: Bart Man (9July10)

Oh right, and don't forget to check out everyone else's contributions on:

http://sketchclub.blogspot.com/

Happy 4th and Happy Birthday to me!

Since it's my birthday I took the morning off to scan some pages from my sketchbook. Top page is from Friday night out with friends. Next is children playing in the fountain at Pacific theatre in Culver. Followed by sketched from various events but mainly from Sketch Club.

Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th and enjoys that extra day off!!! :]

Doggy Doodles

Sketch Club took a little trip over to the good old dog park. This was an awesome day because I thought I did pretty bad but then I got home and the results weren't as disappointing as I thought WOO. My favorites are Top left, and bottom right, fun day. I mean how could it be bad with Doggies!

The Football, I mean Pug

Doggie Doodles from Sketch Club this past Friday.

I'm much happier with my pug than the "scene". I was aiming to do this really fast but it ended up taking an hour just like the last time I recorded myself with the "Shades of Brown" girl. Did play with a new brush in Photoshop though and I really like it so it's a very good day! :]

I'm just going to end on, Dogs are AMAZING! I love them :]

Sketchbook Updates

Doodles from "How to Train Your Dragon" Panel at Gallery Nucleus, most of the top images were of the speakers during the presentation. Then instead of waiting in line I drew everyone else in line
Barnes & Noble, hung out there briefly before watching "Green Zone"

Walgreen's, apparently gets pretty crowded around 4pm so if you have the ability to fill prescriptions earlier, I would advise doing so. Again instead of waiting in a huge line I drew people. But they just kept coming so I eventually had to wait in line, hence the back shots of people.
Sketch Club + Chipotle, showed up a little late to Sketch Club so I decided not to eat, then once everyone was done for the day I soldiered off and went to Chipotle and drew people in line.
... Wow ... i drew a lot of people in lines lol ... Welcome to LA! :]

Sketch Club

Today we sketched at a skate park, it was REALLY challenging. After that I went and checked out a local dog park which was awesome. I got my dog fix and lots of doodling done. Need to work on my canine anatomy and catching both dogs and humans in action. Practice, Practice, Practice!

*the marker sketches are from drawing club a couple weeks back
PS: (22Mar10)
I needed a personal sketch break really bad tonight. So I sketched this little moment from the dog park where two dogs were fighting over a bright pink Frisbee and walking around like Siamese twins attached to it. Dogs are AMAZING! and i feel refreshed.

Sketch Club: Shades of Brown

Mark from this past Friday. I recorded the process with Camstasia but I have no idea what I'm doing with the program, I'll let you know if/when I'm able to post it. :]


Here is Chris Ayers' "mark" drawing from last week, I thought it was too amazing not to share. A little back story he's missed a couple marks and since he missed this past weeks he drew everyone else checking out the Blue Lady while he and Omar are back there blabbing. LOVE IT!

( that's me in the bottom left :P)

Sketch Club: Blue Lady

Been super busy this week. Finally got a moment to knock out last weeks mark. She was amazing! Wonder what came first, the hair or the purse. I thoroughly enjoyed her use of colors! back to my pile of stuff to do :D

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

PS: http://sketchclub.blogspot.com

Sketch Club: The Fluffy Guy

Here's the Mark for this weeks Sketchclub. I'm trying to use these as a way to experiment and try out new things.
My approach this week was to sketch out the character, then use the lasso tool to cut out shapes to then fill with the paint bucket. Then I went into each flat shape with one extra shade to create some form. And finished it off by putting my original line work back on top with blend mode: soft light.
I'm actually quite happy the way it turned out! ... for now :P

And here are my sketches from the day. Not as happy with these, but hey, you have to do a lot of drawing before they get any good.

PS: This past Friday I was officially introduced on the Sketch Club Blog.
Thanks Marcelo :]

Sketch Club: Lunch Date

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been super busy. Kind of overwhelmed. Anyway this is the mark from this past week at Sketch Club.

The pose didn't come out exactly how I envisioned, probably should have taken a quick picture but I wanted to just knock it out pretty quick and get to the mound of other work I have. I did do some experimenting though with using a different brush and playing with the line color.

"All limitations are self imposed and belief in them creates limited reality"

Sketch Club: Dark Blues

Sorry for the delay, I've been quite busy lately.

No further gilding the Lilly, here is the Mark and some sketches from last Friday at the Sketch Club + some doodles from Saturday night.

Sketch Club + Shelf sketch

Book shelves; sketch assignment from a communal blog I'm part of with a couple of my friends, we're trying to get it started back up again.

Sketch Club: Awesome Pom Ponytail

Today I had the pleasure of joining up with the Sketch Club. Lots of Sketching, great conversation, and some incredibly inspiring sharing at the end. I'm still reviewing them in my head.
Thanks for having me!

(This girl was today's "Mark." Basically they pick a person walking by and you have to try and recall that person later when you get home.)