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Inktober Part Three
I’ve fallen behind…got too wrapped up in college papers to take ink to page recently. So even though they don’t match up with the days completely, here is the next seven drawings
Drawing #21
Lights. The five smaller bulbs in the background are actually supposed to be the reflection in the dark window. I’m not sure if you can tell that or not.
Drawing #20
As far as I can remember, this is the third self portrait I’ve ever done. The one before this was from my sophomore year in high school. It was the first image posted on this blog. You can look back to the very first post to see it here, if you like: Test Post
The first was one I drew in second grade art class. I imagine my mom might still have it somewhere.
I made sure to take process photos. I love to see the process. See them below.
Drawing #19
This is the third drawing of Inktober so far with at the Suzallo Library. This is my first drawing using a shading marker. This month, with all the time I’ve spent drawing, I really think I’ve broken through to a new level of understanding the things I see and how to draw them. The perspective on the stair rail and the lights was tough, but I could not have drawn this a few months ago. Its one of the best in the series, I feel.
Drawing #18
What does it say about you if a pretty girl stands next to you in the library, and you’re more interested in the way her leather boots fold, than her?…Anyway, I felt a bit creepy surreptitiosly taking a picture of her boots, but I had fun drawing them. I left room on this page in my sketchbook to do several more. I plan to draw the same boots but in several different mediums. Look for it in a future post.
Drawing #17
A plant outside Suzallo Library in Red Square on my campus. I love the way it turned out. If you remember my October 6th drawing, this plant is right behind the penciled in lamp in the distance, on the other side of the stairs.
Drawing #16
This was a fun one; I met up with my friend Darren whom I met a year ago on my first trip to Seattle. We met up for coffee and went down town to do some sketching. We might even collaborate on some projects in the future.
Drawing #15
There was a seagull who sat next to me while I was eating my lunch in Red Square. Here he is twice.
Like I said, I’ve fallen behind, but I’ll post the last series when I’ve finished them. There will be 31 drawings for 31 days of Inktober.
Thanks for looking!
Inktober Week Two
This week I definitely had less time to devote to drawing. I still did some good ones, it was just harder to fit it in. Hope you enjoy them!
October 14th
This is definitely my least favorite drawing from my Inktober project so far. I was tired and it was late so I opted to draw another mandala. Im just not super happy with the way it turned out, but that’s all right. Not every drawing is a masterpiece, as they say.
October 13th
Scissors. ‘nough said.
October 12th
“Piper”
Ive only been living away from home for about a month at this point, and one of the many things I miss most is my dog, Piper. So I channeled that into a drawing of her.
Drawing based on this photograph by my mom.
October 11th
I only had about 45 minutes this day to draw. But it was a beautiful day, one of the last this year here in Seattle, so I decided to spend it on a campus bench drawing this building. It turned out well.
October 10th
Drawing on campus this day at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library.
This drawing is very important to me because I think it is the first example when I’ve even tried to include the people in the scene in the drawing. Usually they move around to fast and my pen, which moves much slower only captures the non moving objects…I like to think of it like an old photograph from the 1800s, when it would take several hours to expose and the streets would appear empty. But this time I was able to capture most of them, and even some of the faster moving ones who were walking around or on the staircases.
October 9th
“Ferrous”
Based on this photograph of this lamp that my Uncle Alan made and gave me. He calls it Ferrous.
October 8th
Just a mandala…always fun and relaxing to draw.
Thanks for reading! Week three coming soon.
Portrait of Gnimdo T.
This is one of my best portraits, a drawing in my sketchbook of my buddy Gnimdo from a few years ago.
Watch the video to see an animation of the process photos from reference photo to final.
In case you didn’t/couldn’t see the video, here are pictures from the process.
Thanks for looking!
New Drawings from Europe
This summer was great, I traveled to Europe with my family as a graduation present, and I (mostly) got to pick the destinations. Given my fascination with german culture and language, I wanted to go to Germany and Austria, so that’s where we went. We also stayed a few days in Prague, which was incredible as well. We went to Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Here are my drawings I did while there.
For some reason, I wasn’t loving my drawings at the beginning of the trip. But they got better. They actually go from my least favorite to most:
It was our last day in Berlin so I had to at least do at least one drawing. I drew the Berlin Communications tower at Alexanderplatz and the top of a church that’s in that same square. Ehhhh…it’s alright, I’ve done better.
This sketch isn’t the greatest either, but I like it much more than the one from Berlin because this was what I sometimes call a “power sketch” something I do when I have very little time to draw: I forgo taking time to get the perspective perfectly right and cheat a little bit on the details. Also edit out a lot of the details so that instead of a detailed sketch it really captures more the feel of the scene. I did this sketch in 25 minutes.
This is the chimney and part of the roof on our terrace at the place where we stayed in Prague. I like this one a lot.
This drawing I did in the Stadtpark of Vienna, The largest central park/greenspace in the city. This park was seriously one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. If you ever are in Vienna, make sure you go there. While drawing this two girls who walked by and saw me drawing stopped and asked to see my drawing. That happens from time to time when I’m out drawing, but this time we talked for a while and they ended up looking through my whole sketchbook! They seemed to like my work but I bet I was having a much better time just having them look. It was so great to have someone be interested in my drawings.
I took these while I was sitting on a ledge similar to the one you can see in the photo on the opposite side of the river. The first one is from the first day. But I loved the park so much that I decided to come back the next day to add more to the drawing: what you see in the second one.
This is my favorite one from the trip. Also in Vienna, this is the oldest church in the city. A similar experience happened while I was working on this one: A man who only spoke German walked up and admired my drawing. I did my best to understand what he was asking me but, Meine Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut! He didn’t look through my sketchbook like the other two, but he seemed to like this one.
And here’s a photo of the church. I like to take photos of the places I draw from the same vantage point I drew them so that I can compare. This one I think is one of my best in the whole book.
That’s all. Thank you so much for checking out this page! Please check back for new pieces and drawings. Im really trying to be better about posting regularly.
Camille’s sketchbook
While on a family trip to Norway this summer, I saw my cousin Camille writing/drawing in a cool notebook, she said she got in Mexico. I told her I do bookbinding and offered to make her one when we got back…well we’ve been back for a few weeks and here it is.
The paper I used for the cover is handmade that I bought in a boutique while we were In Norway, so in addition to just looking cool it’s a good momento of our awesome trip. Below are some pictures of the book while in different stages of making it.
(Above: the text block and wrapped cover before joining them)
(Above: text block with endpages and bookmark)
(Above: spine of the sewed text block)
Austin Overmoe 