I really want to write on the background wall of this but haven’t yet because I like it as is. However journaling on it seems like a good idea. What do you think?!
This was sketched at the Inner Beab in Augusta Friday. Remember I told you you can get in trouble if you don’t plan those lines. Can you find my faux pas?! Hmm I could turn it into to a backpack on the girl couldn’t I?!
Colors used. Almost every color I have !!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
I really want to write on the background wall of this but haven’t yet because I like it as is. However journaling about it seems like a good idea. What do you think?!
This was sketched at the Inner Bean in Augusta Friday. Remember I told you you can get in trouble if you don’t plan those lines. Can you find my faux pas?! Hmm I could turn it into to a backpack on the girl couldn’t I?!
Colors used. Almost every color I have !!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Pouring rain here today and all but one of the dogs hate to go out in the rain.
This dog appeared on TV when I paused it. Decided it was a sign to paint him. No idea what kind of dog he is. A collie perhaps?!
Here’s the original sketch done with the Pentel brush pen. It’s good for quick sketching but takes some getting used to aka practice. Also some thinking is required before you sketch aka at what angle should the lines be drawn?!
Better to do one line than try to correct the permant ink lines. They will always show unless you do some creative painting.
The dog was painted with a cheap Joes size 12 Legend sable. Expensive but worth every penny. I use it a lot.
Colors used – most of my paint is Daniel Smith or Holbein. Quin gold and Quin Sienna for the fur. Quin red for the tongue with a touch of mineral Violet. Burnett umber and ultramarine blue for the darks. Cerulean in the shadows.
Sorry I forgot to post these yesterday so doubling up today. 
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
You know what that means – Life Modeling at USC Aiken. I am very happy with my painting today. Ilena might get a few tweaks but she’s done for now.
It was a great pose and the drawing went well. I didn’t even use head measurements til the end just to check if she was in good order. It took about twenty minutes to draw this sketch.
TIP: The drawing was started with the shoulders matching the diagonal line of the models shoulders. Same for the arms and leg angles. You imagine drawing a straight line thru the shoulders and start with that line.
The outline of the head was added still matching the angles of the models head.
Here she is after about an hour of painting. Still a lot to do but looking good. The rust color is Quin Sienna or burnt orange. Not sure which. Flesh is Quin coral with a dab of yellow ochre added. The Blues are mostly cobalt. Hair burnt umber and ultramarine blue.
You really don’t need a lot of colors to paint people.
Everybody voted no to a light blue background.
Then it got a little dark. Oopps. Turning it upside down and allowing water to lift the color fixed the background. Along with a little blotting.
The. I had ring around the model. A NO NO.
I fixed that by adding bits of colors around the model and the ring disappeared.
Her current incarnation. Thanks for all the help and advice from my peanut gallery Ruth, Mike, and Tom!!
Thanks for reading. Go forth and draw!
Margaret xxx
This is the one I won the Chat Noir t shirt for – the models favorite sketch. Though you can’t see it the cape is colored with a wink of Stella red glitter pen. Those wink of Stellas are always winners.
The next two are the same twenty minute pose. I got done early and started a second. I have NO idea why he is wearing that “hat”!! Background was done with two red tombow pens that I wet down and let run.
See above for this one. Actually drawn during the first part of the twenty minute pose but was annoyed because I didn’t have room for his foot so I started over.
Another stance with the same strange costume. Had fun journaling on this page. Princess Augusta thinks he looks like Fozzy Bear thus the name. The tattoo is my favorite part of this one. I stole Ruth’s inktense to draw it with. I always like drawing on wet paper with inktense for fun off beat effects.
A reclining pose. And that’s it for now. Tomorrow life modeling. Hope it goes better than last week.
Two More pages!! 
A little urban sketching I started this morning at breakfast.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret ️xxx
Five minute sketch
Always a fun time at Dr Sketchys anti art school. You draw like mad and Laff for three hours. The model quickly strikes many funny poses since the models are not your average college art class model but performers of various kinds.
Fozzy Bear Five minute sketch
Anything from burlesque to circus performers may turn up on stage. Sometimes clothed sometimes not. Always in a costume.
Draw the model doing something funny contest. Five minute sketch
Sometimes because you are drawing so fast you just mess up. These were all done with brush pens and Tombow markers in a SuperBee tablet.
Dr Sketchys is a worldwide movement. Poses are 1-20 minutes. Check the Internet for a branch near you!! Then GOOOO!!
One of my sketches was the models favorite so I won a free tshirt. Thanks Princess Augusta!! Chat Noir on Eighth Street is where Dr Sketchys is held once a month. Stay tuned tomorrow to see what his favorite sketch looks like.
A couple more pages of how to draw people. Still a lot left!
Thanks for looking!!
Margaret ️xxx
Always a fun time at Dr Sketchys anti art school. You draw like mad and Laff for three hours. The model quickly strikes many funny poses since the models are not your average college art class model but performers of various kinds.
Fozzy Bear
Anything from burlesque to circus performers may turn up on stage. Sometimes clothed sometimes not. Always in a costume.
Draw the model doing something funny contest. Sometimes because you are drawing so fast you just mess up. These were all done with brush pens and Tombow markers in a SuperBee tablet.
Dr Sketchys is a worldwide movement. Poses are 1-20 minutes. Check the Internet for a branch near you!! Then GOOOO!!
One of my sketches was the models favorite so I won a free tshirt. Thanks Princess Augusta!! Chat Noir on Eighth Street is where Dr Sketchys is held once a month. Stay tuned tomorrow to see what his favorite sketch looks like.
A couple more pages of how to draw people. Still a lot left!
Thanks for looking!!
Margaret ️xxx
Excited my sketch yesterday was sold. HURRAH!!
Yesterday there were herds of people check out at the Evans Ga Target. I got THE table with a view of both Starbucks and the check out lines. With 15 minutes to kill before time for class at the Y I drew these people.
Done with my Pentel brush pen. Like the way most of them turned out. When drawing these life is going too fast to think about anything but capturing the gestures as quickly as possible so accidents happen like the girl in the gutter.
Here it is in ink.
I also started another strip.
Remember all these figures took about 18 minutes tops.
Here’s a couple more of those pages. More tomorrow!! Enjoy!!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
Excited my sketch yesterday was sold. HURRAH!!
Yesterday there were herds of people check out at the Evans Ga Target. I got THE table with a view of both Starbucks and the check out lines. With 15 minutes to kill before time for class at the Y I drew these people.
Done with my Pentel brush pen. Like the way most of them turned out. When drawing these life is going too fast to think about anything but capturing the gestures as quickly as possible so accidents happen like the girl in the gutter.
Here it is in ink.
I also started another strip.
Remember all these figures took about 18 minutes tops.
Here’s a couple more of those pages. More tomorrow!! Enjoy!!
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
SOLD!!!
I drew this the other day when we had breakfast at the inner bean. A lot of times when I try to draw people like this I end up with a mess. For once I started in the front and drew to the back.
Today sketching at Costco I did the opposite. A bit of a mess.
Since these are generally drawn in ink you don’t get a do over when the figures over lap shelves. If you start in the front not such a problem. I started with the left bottom corner.
Contrast was a problem too. All the figures were blending into each other on the left.
I converted it to black and white. With the color gone it was easy to see where the figures wee blending in. Bottom left was especially bad.
I uped the contrast aka value which I think improved life at the bean.
Just remember my chickies it’s all about value.
An old page of dads on how to draw people I thought u might find interesting.
Thanks for reading.
Margaret xxx
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