SBS Polishing Klass 3 faces

This started with a photo of a woman wrapped in a blanket.  I cut out the face and drew one of my own with ink and gray markers. Looking back I wished I had used brown ink and makers, maybe next time. It reminds me of a old faded Polaroid snap shot the way I cropped the page.

SBS Polishing, the food continues

This one was hard for me. So much of the dinner was the same or nearly the same color and value. I tried to use line variation to give it more interest and separation in the food items. Oh, it was delicious too. Drawn from photo, I wasn't going to let this one get cold.

SBS Polishing Klass another day

Another Blue Apron entree. 

SBS Polishing Klass 5

I have filled almost every page in the sketchbook I dedicated to this kourse. I gave each klass at least space for 7 exercises, one for each day for a week. Since I started late I didn't necessarily work in the book sequentially. But often jumped around working on more than one klass a day. Some were more fun than others and learned varying amount of new nfo from each teacher. Always good to look at art from different angles and approaches. It has started me thinking about working on comics. I want to start a sketchbook where I draw at least one frame a day. More food…this one from that all important food group sugar.

SBS Polishing Klass 6

The last class was with Juliana Coles. Her topic was art journaling. She did a great demo plus a parting gift of a detailed step by step exercise. I did this homework based on her demo before opening the exercise. Remember it is a start not a completed work. Now I need to find just the right book to alter for the art journaling exercise.

We started with an incomplete drawing or failed sketch.

Then we added words, thoughts. This reminded me of the Morning Pages exercises.

Next we added paint covering some but not all of the words we had written.

Then some mark making and collage. Not sure where this will go next.

Klass 5 was with Matthew Midgley. He had us drawing our food. Now I love to eat and draw but like my food hot and fresh or cold and fresh, however the cook intended it to be eaten. So a quick outline of my salad and finished from a photo. In fact all of my other meals were drawn from photos.

Sketchbook Skool Polishing Klass 3

The instructor for the 3rd klass was Nelleke Verhoeff. She had us working on creating faces with collage and sketching. It was fun and I think it will help me work on my goal of creating a comic strip. This is actually a sketch of Nelleke I did from a photo she gave us. She is known for adding red cheeks to her faces so I could not resist giving her red cheeks.

Sketchbook Skool Polishing Klass 2

Not a masterpiece but my homework assignment in Klass 2. Kooske Koene has us working on drawing negative spaces. This is my drafting stool in my studio drawn with different tools each time. The hope is that it would be closer to reality with each attempt. Not too sure I succeeded with that goal.

Sketchbook Skool - Polishing

Decide very late in the game to sign up for the Polishing kourse at Sketchbook Skool, a 6 week course. It started 30 September. I started almost a month late. The first class is comics with Danny Gregory. I have always wanted to do a comic series about my life and family. I kept putting it off because I firgured I needed to develop my characters first. That meant being able to draw their heads and bodies in any pose. Therefore, I never did anything, I quit before I could start. I had set a very high threshold. Danny has you just jumping in and doing it. I am having fun. Here is my first conversational comic, the first assignment.