This blog is now officially being rolled out. There has been interest expressed in the beverage I drink while sketching at (typically) Starbucks (henceforth referred to as SBUX). I have been holding steady with a Venti (the large) iced vanilla latte--but with just half the vanilla syrup (3 pumps instead of 6).
My hands were shaky today. Too much caffeine...or not enough?
2 comments:
Oh god, these drawings are so wonderful! I don't get to draw nearly enough!
Iced coffee, I wouldn't have guessed.
You have a very nice touch with the brush... how long have you been drawing with one regularly? I love the things (brush pens) myself, but I'm now so dependant on my computer I don't know if I still have the technique in me...
Riiiick!
Thanks, man! I have been drawing with these brush pens for a while now--going on three years? If you look back to earlier posts I link to the Muji website, where I get these babies).
But I would only give myself a C+ for "technique"...look at somebody like Marlo Meekins' work to see how much further the whole dexterity aspect of drawing with these sort of pens can be pushed. I can't flow my lines very far, or very straight. Practice does influence this--if I concentrate on straightening lines, and making parallel lines, after a week or so I can see improvement.
Also, Meekins and co. use a different sort of brush pen--a little stiffer in the bristles, I believe--closer to a felt pen.
One other note: these quickies of mine are small and (relatively) fast, so I'm concentrating more on "essence" and "truth" than dexterity.
Be nice to have more, tho'....
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