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The last batch of quizzes I gave my Freshmen students was on hot pink Xerox paper. When I was finished grading them, I thought I would use the back of one (as I had done in the past) to draw a little something. I love drawing animals. Their features are a relief from those of the human face. Pigma Micron 05 on the back of Jaedyn's paper.
Not only did Jaedyn get a perfect grade on his quiz, he's also getting a giraffe -- complimentary of his French teacher.
I've always wanted to draw cows in plein air. One day. It's on my bucket list. Right now I'll just practice from photographs.
Pilot pen in sketchbook.
Another little doodle on the iPhone during today's faculty meeting. I made my colleague Andy look like a little boy from the back. Brushes for iPhone.
Another moment spent with Megan, drawing in my classroom for a good portion of our prep time. Still trying to apply the precious teachings of Megan on the matter of perspective and test-drawing my brand new Pilot V Ball.
I had not drawn a face with a pencil in a while -- and again Flickr provided me with a perfect subject. A man whose name I don't know, just a great smile, a great nose, a great mustache, great hair (though you have noticed I carefully avoided drawing too much of that). B & HB pencils on all-purpose Xerox paper.
There wasn't much time for anything other than a bunch of doodles today. I sat on one of our library's new bean bags (this could quickly become a habit) while Megan was sitting at a table -- and we doodled. Her drawing of one of the bean bags turned out, well, great. While I proceeded to deform her left hand.
Pilot B2P pen in sketchbook.
My drawing buddy Megan, an art teacher at my school, taught me a valuable (if not life-altering) lesson about drawing in perspective yesterday. With a piece of chalk on my black board, she broke down the idea of two-point perspective, which I had no grasp of whatsoever. Suddenly, things made so much sense. Today, we both sat down in front of a picture I had taken during my latest trip to France: a street alongside St Martin Lutheran church in my hometown of Montbéliard. I drew from left to right, while Megan (who is left-handed) drew in the opposite direction. We came up with radically different results -- which made us laugh all the way through. Here is Megan's awesome, drool-inducing version. B2P pen in sketchbook.
... draw for fifteen minutes. That's what my drawing buddy Megan and I did today. We had fifteen minutes at the end of our teaching day, so we sat down and drew in my classroom. I opted for her Andy Warhol tote while she undertook the whole chair it was sitting on.
And if fifteen minutes is all the time we have to draw, we'll take it. On a positive note, it stopped me from shadowing / cross-hatching the heck out of it, which is always a good thing.
B2P Pilot pen on photocopy paper.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all, and may 2012 yield more opportunities to draw and contemplate the beauty around us!
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