Mekong Catfish

A fun sketch of a giant fish. That shape is so interesting to me.

Restfield

Nothing too special - just a sketch. It would have been better if I had finished the background. Oh well.I watched Crumb the other day and of course I had to work with a pen.






Detail

Vanishing Talking Points

Architecture teaches me so much about composition. If you reduced a Frank LLoyd Wright house down to just lines, it would still work as an evocative layout.

So here I am, enjoying a few rhythmic lattices on this disheveled Thai apartment building. Or was it Korean? I can't keep track of my flickr travels. Please don't sue me for using other people's pics - I can't afford to fly to Asia every time I feel like drawing.

Here's a detail, I love the look of magnified drawings. It's like listening to your favorite song with headphones and hearing the little things, like sounds reverberating in the drums.

BTW - this is my little sketchbook. I hate the glossy paper and the way pencil looks on it, but this disdain has actually given me more freedom to draw without hope of a masterpiece.

My other sketchbook has become so ridiculously precious to me that I barely touch it.

Specularity

I'm trying to get my tablet to produce drawings that look like my sketchbook. I still have much more control with a real pencil.

The refraction at the top edge was especially gratifying on this piece. Am I the only person that has favorite spots of drawings?

I had a lot more going on around the glass, but through the glory of photoshop layers, I removed it for a later day.

And while I may have broken a few laws doing it, I think it was a worthwhile way to spend part of Valentine's day ( the other part being spent watching "Primer" with wifey friend. What a wonderful movie. ).