Sketch 1: Prague street scene
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 3 comments link this postThere's no shortage of videos on YouTube that show people sketching. The one I made (rather quickly and crudely) yesterday certainly isn't among the best. However, I always found it fascinating to watch artists draw; I learned a lot about technique and got new ideas just watching them set up a sketch and how they handled the materials.
In the video below (which has no sound), I'm sitting on my bed drawing from a photograph I took when I was in Prague about 15 years ago. You can see it's a new sketchbook, one I purchased recently when I realized my "sketching for fun and learning" had dwindled to nothing and was replaced by "sketching for projects only." I'm using a black "pencil" by Lyra, called a Ferby, which is similar to sketching with a grease crayon or litho pencil. Drawing with a litho pencil is an ideal experience, I've always thought, but the Ferby is the next best thing, much softer than a regular colored pencil but without the excessive greasiness of a litho pencil.
Anyway, here you go.
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3 Comments:
wow, that is awesome, julie.
By 
Pastor Julie, at
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:47:00 PM
Ah, and the cat is in the video, too!
What do you do with your sketches?
By Anna, at
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:52:00 PM
I feed them to the cat.
(I leave them in the sketchbook and then add the full sketchbook to the pile of previous sketchbooks and then, when I get in a fit of rage at life and how much crap I have sitting around, I sometimes burn them.)
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:20:00 PM
