It ended up being a much busier month than I thought it would... lots of work from clients, parents visiting. Somehow, despite everything going on, I managed to draw every day in May -- although some of the drawings took more than one day to complete.
The biggest problem? I got hooked on drawing with ballpoint pen, which takes FOREVER! Now that it's June, I finally had a chance to take pictures of everything and post them all.
This particular one is Pitt pen. I meant to add watercolor, but haven't gotten to it yet.
Not a great sketch, but part of the point of EDIM is the doing, not the finished product, right?
Terrible photo. There's actually much more subtle detail in this sketch. Still not my best work: the gazebo is leaning to one side and there's not enough value differences in the foliage.
The photo is a bit blurry, but you get the idea. From a photo taken somewhere in downtown Chicago years ago.
Drawing late at night means drawing from photo references. This one's not too bad, unlike most sketches (as a result of not having as much visual info in photos, as when drawing a scene in front of me).
No definitive sense of light in this one. That's because I started it at a sunny 9 AM, got interrupted, and finished it at an overcast 7:30 PM.
The previous sketch, this one, and all the rest through May 31 are black ballpoint pen in my Derwent sketchbook. I love the result. I wonder how archival it is?
