A Peek Inside My Sketchbook

Based on an image from nationalgeographic.com – such a perfect place to look for sketchbook-inspiration.

A Peek Inside My Sketchbook

..based on a National Geographic image that I saw. I was intrigued by the numbers in the stands.

A Peek Inside My Sketchbook

A Peek Inside My Sketchbook

A book of many portraitures...

I wanted to work on my drawing skills more, and obviously trying to make a habit of posting a sketch every week just wasnt' working out for me - if you're not in the mood to draw, I just can't do it. Oh well, C'est la vie!

I do know that I most definitely wanted to work on portraits (of people and animals)...so I bought a sketchbook dedicated to those things...enter my title page...:My first portraiture is of my dear feline, Oreo. Here he is looking all fierce and mighty:
So here I begin, hopefully the first portraits of many!

Saturday Sketch: Squirrels

I was sketching these squirrels for a commissioned painting. I ended up using the smaller top one, as it seems more illustrated then the more realistic bottom one.

Saturday Sketch: Sandy

Sandy is my parents dog, she's a white-Shepard, and quite the little princess. Just a few sketchs I did of her from pictures on my computer. I'm hoping to paint her soon.

Saturday Sketch: Puddles

Puddles

Me anxious for spring? Not quite: I have lots of snowboarding I still want to get in before the snow all melts away. But how can one resist a little one in a yellow rain jacket (you'll have to use your imagination for the colour). This sketch may eventually turn into a painting.

Ps. I really do not enjoy drawing hands, so this little boy is going to have 'mitten hands' lol

Saturday Sketch: Portrait of Ms. Rabbit

Portrait of Ms. Rabbit

It is the year of the rabbit, and I wanted to do a sketch to feature this very lovely, fluffy creature. I will be featuring a rabbit in an upcoming work - it's in my 'to paint' part of my mind.

I had my own rabbit growing up: his name was Twix, and he was most wonderful. When I went to school I couldn't keep him anymore, so I gave him to a little boy. I honestly think that he thought he was one of the cats...

..and yes, I realize that I wrote rabbit as 'rabit' in the picture - I guess I was just so engaged in the sketch :)

Saturday Sketch: Fortune Cookie Romance

Fortune Cookie Romance

I have dedicated Saturdays to sketches with hopes that it will be easier to keep this up with a whole week to sketch. *fingers crossed*

My Sketchbook

My sketchbook most definitely does not get the love that it deserves. Simple put: it is lonely and probably in some sort of life-ending agony over a broken heart. Sometimes it sits and sits without a single mark in it - and my sketching skills dwindle more and more with that.


Sketchbooks have been 'popular' so to speak lately (I know, they're always popular...I just mean lots of people have been blogging about it this week). My friend at Ulixis is just about to post her pages from the Sketchbook Project. As well, Indiefixx wrote about an online sketchbook-course - which appears to emphasis, that working in a sketchbook doesn't mean that you only have to work in muted pencil shades: you can have as much colour and creativity as you please!

Lately, I've only been using my sketchbook to plan more complicated paintings (some paintings I just go with the flow and see where I end up - about a 25% failure rate to that technique, but still definitely lots of fun). I haven't really been using it to explore, and experiment. I have a really nice one too (and a not so nice one for really quick-ugly sketches). My really nice one has thicker textured paper so that it will take to paint better - perfect for a watercolor artist like myself, if only I would use it.

So I thought, that maybe I would create my own sort of sketchbook challenge. Once a day is way to much for someone like me, whose mind wanders enough to forget about the simplest things (I can't even post once a day on my blog lol). But maybe I'll try once a week? We will have to see how it goes. I cannot promise anything. And this post cannot count as my first one, since that sketch above was done ages ago - I just wanted a picture lol. And it probably won't start this week, since I have my provincial exam that's days away and I'm completely engaged in study (yes, totally engaged and totally on my computer dabbling away and not with my books - opps). Soon - that's when I will try to attempt this - soon. :)