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It's time for more art spam!
There is a wide time-range in this one because I packed this away in a box and forgot about it for a decade.
sketchbook #0
2007:
undated figure drawing session:
2017 January fanart:
2017 January Drink-and-Draw:
2017 March fanart (& miscellaneous):
2017 (sometime between March & October)
2017 October & November:
2018 June, art for a bigbang (followed by digital edit):
final undated drawing:
2007:
There were several undated feet and leg drawings which all came before a mundane scribble dated March 2007. I think the feet and legs were during or shortly after an art anatomy class that I took. The ping ball drawing is dated 2007-September-18 and labeled "lesson #2" so I think this was part of an art class where I remember the teacher being very fussy about how you should draw objects without any lines around them, everything had to be done with shading.
undated figure drawing session:
This is just the highlights from pages and pages from a single figure drawing session. This wasn't a class, but it was at the same art school where I took several classes. They had live figure drawing sessions which back then I think were only $10 or $15 a session to attend. (I just looked it up and they still do them and the price has only gone up to $20 which feels reasonable.) I don't think my figure drawing skills have really improved since then despite a lot of practice and watching video tutorials. When I'm following along with a tutorial step-by-step, I feel like I've got it, but then I try to draw from life and it's unsatisfying scribbles. (I took a close-up shot of the paper getting caught in the spiral binding because that's my pet peeve with sketchbooks like this.)
2017 fanart:
Just a few months away from sketchbook#1. Three attempts at drawing Ruth Connell and one un-finished drawing of Jade Eshete. A recurring theme of this whole sketchbook is that nothing looks finished. (There are several pages with just a single scribble and I don't even know what I was attempting to draw before I gave up.)
2017 January Drink-and-Draw:
The art turned out terrible, but this was a lot of fun and I'm sad that my schedule never worked out to do this again. (Working late afternoon through evening messes with your social life quite a bit.) It doesn't appear that this group does these anymore. I arrived slightly late because this was a bit of a trek from work, which meant I was sitting pretty far back without a great view. It was a free figure drawing session at a bar with cosplayers taking turns posing. Such a neat idea. It was a generic fantasy theme, no one was officially cosplaying as anyone specific, but the woman with the dragon puppet was clearly going for Daenerys Targaryen as this was peak Game of Thrones era. I have many more pages, but they're all even worse than this. If I were doing the same thing today, I would go back and color them in and flesh out the shading that I didn't have time for at the time. But this really smooth thin paper and not really suited for paint or markers or colored pencil.
2017 March - November fan art:
There's only one piece in there that I like. I heard some art advice that said the main difference between amateur artists and professionals is that amateur artists stop too soon. Several of these have potential and I just stopped trying. Of course, some are beyond help. I was meticulously follow one of those how-to-draw-heads tutorials when working on that Jared drawing and it's the worst one I've ever done. You would not think it would be possible to make Jared and Jensen look ugly, but I managed it.
2018 June, Natasha Romanov art for bigbang:
I spent so much time tweaking the digital edit and ... I think the original pencil drawing looks better. The only thing I needed to do was add in the story title, but then I started tweaking and "fixing" all these other things (admittedly the cheek on the original is messed up) and it looks so bad. (And, yeah, this sketchbook was not designed for all the layers of colored pencil I smashed on here, but I was super determined at the time.) I did some preliminary sketches for this in another sketchbook so this is probably version three. The contrast between this and the other drawings in this book, which were mostly slapped together, is striking. I'm kind of annoyed that it sort of proves that a lot of effort is worth it, because I'm a slacker at heart. I still want art to just be easy.
undated, but maybe Christmas 2018?:
I'm amused that this is the last one because I recognize this face. Years ago, my sister sent me a Christmas card with a painting of the three wise men on it that I thought was so cool that I've kept it for years. It's one of those things that I never know where to put it and will randomly find it when I'm moving things around and think, "This is cool; I need to do an art study of this" and then I promptly put it somewhere and forget it. Just this week I pasted this Christmas card into the back of sketchbook #15. And it's this face. The three wise men were all drawn with these very rectangular noses and I am fascinated how you can draw a nose as a rectangle and it works. (This drawing is half-hearted crap obviously, but I swear the original is cool.)
masterlist of all sketchbooks
There is a wide time-range in this one because I packed this away in a box and forgot about it for a decade.
sketchbook #0
2007:
undated figure drawing session:
2017 January fanart:
2017 January Drink-and-Draw:
2017 March fanart (& miscellaneous):
2017 (sometime between March & October)
2017 October & November:
2018 June, art for a bigbang (followed by digital edit):
final undated drawing:
2007:
There were several undated feet and leg drawings which all came before a mundane scribble dated March 2007. I think the feet and legs were during or shortly after an art anatomy class that I took. The ping ball drawing is dated 2007-September-18 and labeled "lesson #2" so I think this was part of an art class where I remember the teacher being very fussy about how you should draw objects without any lines around them, everything had to be done with shading.
undated figure drawing session:
This is just the highlights from pages and pages from a single figure drawing session. This wasn't a class, but it was at the same art school where I took several classes. They had live figure drawing sessions which back then I think were only $10 or $15 a session to attend. (I just looked it up and they still do them and the price has only gone up to $20 which feels reasonable.) I don't think my figure drawing skills have really improved since then despite a lot of practice and watching video tutorials. When I'm following along with a tutorial step-by-step, I feel like I've got it, but then I try to draw from life and it's unsatisfying scribbles. (I took a close-up shot of the paper getting caught in the spiral binding because that's my pet peeve with sketchbooks like this.)
2017 fanart:
Just a few months away from sketchbook#1. Three attempts at drawing Ruth Connell and one un-finished drawing of Jade Eshete. A recurring theme of this whole sketchbook is that nothing looks finished. (There are several pages with just a single scribble and I don't even know what I was attempting to draw before I gave up.)
2017 January Drink-and-Draw:
The art turned out terrible, but this was a lot of fun and I'm sad that my schedule never worked out to do this again. (Working late afternoon through evening messes with your social life quite a bit.) It doesn't appear that this group does these anymore. I arrived slightly late because this was a bit of a trek from work, which meant I was sitting pretty far back without a great view. It was a free figure drawing session at a bar with cosplayers taking turns posing. Such a neat idea. It was a generic fantasy theme, no one was officially cosplaying as anyone specific, but the woman with the dragon puppet was clearly going for Daenerys Targaryen as this was peak Game of Thrones era. I have many more pages, but they're all even worse than this. If I were doing the same thing today, I would go back and color them in and flesh out the shading that I didn't have time for at the time. But this really smooth thin paper and not really suited for paint or markers or colored pencil.
2017 March - November fan art:
There's only one piece in there that I like. I heard some art advice that said the main difference between amateur artists and professionals is that amateur artists stop too soon. Several of these have potential and I just stopped trying. Of course, some are beyond help. I was meticulously follow one of those how-to-draw-heads tutorials when working on that Jared drawing and it's the worst one I've ever done. You would not think it would be possible to make Jared and Jensen look ugly, but I managed it.
2018 June, Natasha Romanov art for bigbang:
I spent so much time tweaking the digital edit and ... I think the original pencil drawing looks better. The only thing I needed to do was add in the story title, but then I started tweaking and "fixing" all these other things (admittedly the cheek on the original is messed up) and it looks so bad. (And, yeah, this sketchbook was not designed for all the layers of colored pencil I smashed on here, but I was super determined at the time.) I did some preliminary sketches for this in another sketchbook so this is probably version three. The contrast between this and the other drawings in this book, which were mostly slapped together, is striking. I'm kind of annoyed that it sort of proves that a lot of effort is worth it, because I'm a slacker at heart. I still want art to just be easy.
undated, but maybe Christmas 2018?:
I'm amused that this is the last one because I recognize this face. Years ago, my sister sent me a Christmas card with a painting of the three wise men on it that I thought was so cool that I've kept it for years. It's one of those things that I never know where to put it and will randomly find it when I'm moving things around and think, "This is cool; I need to do an art study of this" and then I promptly put it somewhere and forget it. Just this week I pasted this Christmas card into the back of sketchbook #15. And it's this face. The three wise men were all drawn with these very rectangular noses and I am fascinated how you can draw a nose as a rectangle and it works. (This drawing is half-hearted crap obviously, but I swear the original is cool.)
masterlist of all sketchbooks
