More ski jump.

My awesome Mom took me to an art store yesterday and bought some art supplies along with lunch afterwards. Thanks for your support Momma!

Here are a few I've done in the past few days. I sketched Natali while she was watching t.v. and afterwards she said, "I thought you said my nose had a ski jump at the end. That looks like your nose." Sorry dearie, I'll be more observant next time. For some reason, the picture I took made it all grainy and it's missing a lot of the values. I guess that's a good excuse. The other sketches are quick sketches from a magazine. I really should be out doing gesture drawings of people but it's hard when it gets dark so quickly. I guess I'll have to go to (shutter) the mall.

My wifey... kind of.

I did this with a graphite pencil. It wouldn't allow for dark areas but it was nice and smooth to draw with. I need to check and see if there are different shades of those pencils.  I'm also drawing on newsprint and so the quality of a more rendered drawing never looks all that good. I kind of went crazy on the shadows on her face because light was coming from behind her but I guess I could have made that more apparent in the drawing by actually showing signs of a light source. I'm finding that you have to remember a lot of principles while actually drawing... that's hard for me. I can't even remember where my wallet is half the time. Don't start looking for my wallet... it won't take you far.