Some are online, some are in-person and one is free. Here are all my teaching and sketching workshops and sessions for the next few months.
I like something about this one: perhaps it’s just that the very primitive line captures the slouched and hunched poses of these two teens.Īre you joining next week’s One Week 100 People challenge? Unless you’ve set aside the whole day to work on your sketches, it might be a good idea to have some quick-sketching techniques up your sleeve!Īnd if you want to get off to a quick start, just join my substack newsletter for a link to join in a free session drawing people on Monday morning. This last sketch is a reminder to sketch, even if all you have is a minute or two. And many of you reminded me that cafes ( especially here in California) are struggling to keep employees and my best solution might be to take along my own mug. I posted this next set of sketches on Instagram earlier this week and whined a bit about how too many cafes now serve their coffee in disposable cups even when it’s not to-go. So I’m glad I got a quick capture on this day. I used to draw both kids so much, but one is now at university and the other is usually not at home or in his room. Lunch sketches from a couple of weeks ago, and a now-rare sketch of one of my kids. These next few sketches are all from one day when I was in the mood to just keep my hand moving, even when I was drawing variations on the same scene. The page below is my first pen-to-paper moment when I got back. I go easy on myself and draw just about anything: little portraits, quick sketches, whatever. That’s super useful, because back-from-India ( or back form any travles, really) means I face the tough task of getting back to drawing my everyday. When I’m uninspired, not motivated, or just plain lazy, I know I can still drag myself over to my local coffee shop, sketchbook in hand. What a morning that was: and it wasn’t just because of the spectacular view. Like this one below of a view in San Francisco. It feels like all that very layered mixed-media sketching I’m doing from photos is finding its way into my on-location sketches too. And, it is fun to see what direction everyone takes a piece in within the half hour we spend sketching together. I love seeing how a roomful of people can have completely different takes on a single image. The next two images are from Sketch Together Zoom sessions I hold for Substack members. This view of the cliffs on the coast of California is from an online workshop I taught recently called Colors that Pop. Never joined a session? They’re super fun and the demos from all the sessions are here. These boats are from a recent Street View World Tour. And I’m enjoying it: it’s a really fun way for me to experiment with new materials at home before I try them out on location. Lately, I’ve been doing a fair amount of sketching from photos, a lot of it on Zoom in a group.