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Hi everyone! The recording of Saturday's Zoom Session is now up and available at your class page. It has it's own lesson slot and should appear right below Lesson 6... refresh your browser window if you don't see it at first!

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These are really fun and I’m finding patterns in what I want to explore further! I had a really hard time “completing” a spread, but I think doing them in a smaller book would help a lot.

I also brought my sketchbook to an open arts night with a woodcut artist, and used the eye and crow from my first spread for a little print making!

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I kind of took direction from the photographs since they are of the same person (Aurelio Voltaire). So Halloween stuff, song references and some darker stuff.

I will definitely do one or two things differently next time (and looking at it now I'm getting more ideas but calling it good for the purpose of this exercise), but overall I'm happy with the result. Materials used: printed photographs, a child's drawing, ballpoint pen, ink pen, Posca markers, fountain pen (blue ink), coloured pencils, calligraphy pens, mechanical pencil led (for charcoal effect), Hello Kitty watercolours (pens).

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Not really a part of the course but I thought thsese would be fun to post here. Some impromptu sketching at work. Chalk on wood/stone tile.

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Hi Lewis,

Great class, my sketchbook is nearly full. These are my first attempts at each exercise.

Karen

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I've taken a deep dive into wild bees lately. I do a lot of nature journaling. Now, I have to make my nature journaling more artistic. I decided to limit myself to a cheap gel pen here.

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Another view of my clay whistle. You really do blow into the end of the ram to make a sound. Starting with ink and adding a little color with Derwent inktense pencil and charcoal. Ink is my go-to medium. It's a stretch for me to mix media. Still needs more, but I'll stop for now, because I want to do the organic drawing.

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Still working on lesson 3 (shading). Drawing a wooden sculpture and a clay whistle I have at home. I still have a hard time completing the composition. It was a stretch for me just to try to smear the lettering!

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So I've got a feeling that this grind might end up a little "spooky." 😄 We'll see where it goes. I wanted to try using photographs, but didn't really have any, so I just made my own with a collage of some images I liked printed on photo paper.

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I did a drawing of a mollusc, it was super simple so I kind of went overboard with the scientific part of it. 😅 And then it all got a bit silly. 😅 (for those who don't get it, molluscs eat plankton and the green guy is Sheldon J. Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants 😄)

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For this last exercice, I chose to work with Procreate. I used sketches chosen from my old sketchbooks. I also used the Juxtaposer app to import my sketches. Have a great summer , everyone. Thank you Lewis for this time spent artistically !

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Found a squid in a David Attenborough Edition

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I finished my grid this morning and had a delightful time creating it. I have "so much stuff" that it always amazes me whenever I go through old boxes of artwork to look for a variety of my art pieces, projects - stashed away & forgotten.

Thanks for this lesson Lewis!

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Sessions 3 & 4, I did the scientific sketch, of a dried flower, on the page of the portrait. So I put some pink in the cheeks and hat to balance. Thank you Lewis, for your helpful comments on everyone's work.

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For a glorious sunset you need clouds don't you

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David Hockney on my mind

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I’ve done a couple of these - the first was closer to your style with Pinterest references of bird skulls, the second I found a medical book on my shelf (acquired during the pandemic in a little free library), where I could play with veins and blood cells. I’m really finding myself drawn to circles, dots, and thready things lately.

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Here is a special bird: Shoebill. It looks like a prehistoric bird. Indeed, why not make this bird an anthropomorphic character? It looks so proud in its sailor outfit! To make this sketch, I changed my sketchbook and opted for a 98lb, 9inX12in, mix media, Artist Lofts.

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I decided to find things that I had lying around. So I took a photo, did a photo search and investigated what came up.

This is a human scarum (the bone between the hip bones, is made of five vertebrae fused together, the coccyx attaches to the bottom of it). And my sketches, one bare bones, the other after I did the composition.

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Creating 'grid patterns/sketches' is one of my favorite things!

Since Lewis said that we could 'draw him' - I did. I need to work on that a bit more - can't seem to get his eyes right?

I like to find pieces of old artwork, collage, mail, etc. to use in my grids so I draw the squares & rectangles later -depending on what I like and want to use. This is so much fun!!!

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Lessons 4 & 5 - Images of what I used for sketching

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Lessons 4 & 5 - Images of what I used for sketching

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These are the images I used for creating my sketches. The coyote's skull still has teeth and I found it in our backyard.

We live on 5 wooded acres in the wilderness, so I often find different things - a lot of deer antlers that I use to make jewelry.

The human spine sketch was taken from my Anatomy & Physiology book that I had from my college class in A&P...

many years ago.

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I do my best artwork in the early morning hours - usually around 4AM. I had an old "what I think is..." a coyote's skull & decided to also draw an anatomical drawing/diagram of the human spine. The morning light outside does 'strange' things with light when I take a photo using my I-pad.

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I like to read old magazines and then get inspired by their photos and monochrome images. L'ILLUSTRATION is a universal newspaper dating from 1843. I can read it on the website: archive.org.

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I ended up working much smaller than intended (this is roughly thumb sized) but I was pleased with the results. Will work on another, aiming to take up more of the page to allow for more shading experimentation.

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Lewis, I paused the movie (Agatha Christie ) and took a picture with my iPhone ...

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I think I keep trying to control it too much. I like his eyes and that's about it. 😅

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Finished the 3 abstract compositions late at night which helped in terms of making quick decisions and not overthinking. Liked the advise to reuse shapes, switch materials often and keep the insect in the foreground. Thanks heaps!

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This lesson couldn’t have come at a better time.

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Back to basics! I brought out my brushes, my ink markers that I had put away because of digital (Procreate). What a joy! This character comes from a film by Agatha Christie.

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Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings

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Here are the three images I used to create my drawing - Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings known

as "The Outlaws."

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I thought looking at three different images of old men with wrinkles - taking part of them & making them into my "own old wrinkled man" was a fun idea. I found images of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, & Merle Haggard - "The Outlaws" and combined their features to make this drawing. For the shirt - I used my collage pieces. I made up the hair & the mustache/beard is part Waylon & Merle. The eyes are from Willie & the nose/lips are from Merle Haggard's image.

I added 1907 stamps from my Swedish grandmother's scrapbook of old love letters along with part of a postcard.

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Here is one of the others. This is lesson 2 by the way.

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I am taking a risk and showing what I am doing though very aware I am likely more of a beginner than others in this class. I tried to post all 3 but could not figure out how to do that. Thanks for any feedback..

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What a pleasure to draw with the focal point! The little duck, drawn in the sketchbook, unfortunately disappeared into the shark’s belly...

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I read your comment Lewis about the focal point. I drew a target sketch, then added a secondary sketch and wrote a sentence that brings the eye back to the main subject. I made this sketch with Procreate, which I use daily since I took your Procreate and Portraits courses. Thanks for yours advices !

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Lesson 4 pages with book reference.

I used the pages to pick what to draw/create then researched facts about each online.

This is my second time taking this class as I did it when it was first offered and just found my old class art. It was really interesting to see the changes as well as what hasn’t changed much at all.

Anyway this is a terrific book for anyone that likes anatomy :)

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Really not in my comfort zone...

Still interesting for reflection and the search for ideas to create the Sketchbook page with a focal point !

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What I like about all this is to not think too much about drawing what I see but create a good composition and tell a story. Experimenting, playing, fail and win. It's both hard and playful at the same time. I have the feeling that blockages are being released.

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Hello.  There are my sketchbook pages lesson one and two. Komposition and balance. 

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Hello.  There are my sketchbook pages lesson one and two. Komposition and balance. 

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I drew the same insect three times. Thinking of balance, composition and minimalism, I created the following. Minimalism isn't my forte, so I'm not sure I accomplished

it. Anyway, it was lots of fun and I used Posca pens, watercolors, collage pieces, and graphite.

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I had a new sketchbook and messed up four pages using watercolors, Posca pens, black 'gun ink' and collage pieces.

I also found a NEW APP on my I-pad called "PAGES" where I can create one page using various formats by dragging & dropping photos onto that page.

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Hello, I am Hilary. To my surprise I drew a lonesome chicken. In #1, there was already a sketch on left side, so I integrated it into the right side, and I glued down a stamp, in order to send the chicken else where by mail. In #2, #3, I wasn't bothered so much by the hen !

This is my second time doing the course and I can feel the deepening.

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I think my biggest problem was being afraid of messing with the focal point (the initial object sketch). And the position and the placement of it seemed to kind of dictate the flow of the marks. Which is also probably something I should be mindful of. Otherwise I had a lot of fun. The last one got a bit mad. 😅

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Aiming to not fill the entire space is a really great exercise for me!

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My three sketches are ready for the next steps tomorrow...This small duck figurine has been on my work desk for years. So, why not pay tribute to him in my sketchbook !

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as my first series of similar drawings was not suitable for the exercise, i cut out paper and drew a different picture. now i had to deal with the cutouts as well. after the first spread i decided to use less color. like that, it was easyer and got more minimalistic. i like the 2nd and 3rd one better.

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i messed up my sketchbook with scribbles in pencil and waxcrayon, writing with the nondominant hand, watercolor and colorpencil ant watercolor, colorpencil and collage. i wonder how these work out!

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Three copies of the remote key to my Hector 😄

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posca pen, pencil and black lipstick, lol (and a staple, tape and a little collage)

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Busting the sketchbook right in the mouth. 

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Busting the sketchbook right in the mouth. 

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New empty sketch book is scary! 😬😄

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YAY Lewis! I took your "Sketchbooking" class n 2022 and am looking forward to taking it again as you are one of my favorite artist's on Carla Sonheim's platform.

I've been working on a lot of collage pieces lately and seem to be stuck on creating them - so I need to get back into more playful sketching.

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