Tonight I went to my DFL precinct caucus. Pictured right is Melanie, our caucus director person. I don't know what her official title was. I showed up twenty minutes late and missed the formal introductions.
Me:: "Do you want a realistic rendering or a caricature? Line drawing or ink wash? Pencil or pen? Or you could leave it up to me. "
Here's a birthday gift for my friend Annabelle. She recently started up a Lady Snowboarding Club. This while never having snowboarded before in her life. Since then she has hit the slopes once or twice. I suppose the real purpose of these types of clubs is fostering social interaction.
Here's sketch number two for Steve.
"I have two sketches I'd like done. One each of two women. I'd like them to be fun, smiling, line-drawing caricatures."Scott Moore, Minneapolis artist, creates sketches for one dollar on his blog.Thanks Kelly and thanks to the Strib. But most of all, thank you to Steve.
A new use for a blog.
Minneapolis artist Scott Moore has taken the blog idea and merged it with the idea of "wikitainment" (entertainment for multiple people by those people) and he's offering sketches for a dollar. Hey, they are pretty good for a dollar. Scott is an accomplished illustrator and he's known around town for producing a documentary on the redevelopment of the old Sears tower on Lake Street. He's teaming up with other local artists (such as Kelly Newcomer and Mike Etoll) to offer guest artist turns at the sketch-it site. He is also developing a version of this blog/software to be used as an art fundraising tool.
Yes. Another monkey. Lately I've been cruising flickr and viewing other artist's work. A lot of the images I saw were of little characters doing silly things.
I thought to myself that I don't have a little character. If I were to develop a character why not a monkey? The above image is my first attempt. It also was created using my new bottle of speedball ink I recently purchased.
About sixteen years ago I drew a twice weekly comic strip called Common Era. I used ink and a brush then. I really like the line quality I can get with them. It's not for the shy artist. With practice some great sketches can be created.
