Daily Sketch: Gladiate-Her

Yes bad puns!  Sounds like a He-Man character haha.  This lady had a tough sass about her.  Like she knew, and didn't care that her cut-off shorts were way shorter than her coat.  The big coat reminded me of a Sea Captain.  And she had those Roman gladiator sandals too.

Daily Sketch: Bangs

Some serious bans in effect.  I think she had eyes?  And I thought it was a skirt, then I thought it was shorts.  A skort is a thing right?  Ya, that's what it was.  And running shoes.  Respect.

Daily Sketch: Legs

This gal had some seriously long legs.  Would be a fun one to colour sometime.  Black shoes, skirt, jacket, and purse with a striped pink and white shirt.  Reminded me of a very classy pirate haha.

Daily Sketch: Heart Glasses Girl

Time to mix it up a little bit.  The last few sketches have been guys so I was happy to draw this gal.  She had this jagged but kind of dainty looking layered dress.  Oh and heart shaped glasses.  And boots.

Daily Sketch: Metal Guy

Another one whaaat!?  Sure why not.  This guy was the winner since I saw him both on the way to work and coming home.

Daily Sketch: Cool beard guy

Here's a guy from yesterday.  He had this crazy brambly beard going on.  Also interesting was the combo of plaid shirt and cameo shorts.  He had these spacey looking running shoes which seemed oddly out of place too.  I think they were silver haha.

Thanks for having a look!

Daily Sketch: Basketball guy

Athletic, gangly, skinny is a tricky mix to draw, especially with pretty baggy clothes haha.  This guy was getting pumped up for some early morning b-ball.  I tried to give him big feet, calves, and shoulders, like the rest of him would eventually catch up or something, but without hulking him up to much.

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Daily Sketch: Transit Dude

Saw this guy as I was getting off the skytrain this morning.  I knew I'd probably be drawing him unless I saw someone extra fun to draw.  There were some close calls at lunch, but he managed to fend off all challengers.

Today's winner...Transit Dude!

Rocking some high socks, big belt and fanny pack combo, and some mini-looking tech walki-talki gear.

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Daily Sketch: Golf Guy!

Time to get some new stuff up in here!  Nothing too crazy, just a sketch of a dude I saw on the way in to work this morning.  There is a pretty good chance that he was wearing a ladies hat.  It was sunny today, so at least he's not getting burnt.  I've seen lots of bikes and suitcases on the skytrain, but oddly enough I think that was the first set of clubs.

Check back later in the week to see who else I see.  I'll post one each day this week, and Monday was a holiday so it doesn't count haha.

Sketching in France III (and a bit of Chicago)

Here are a few more sketches from my trip.  This is the last of 'em and then it's back to Vancouver stuff.

This is of a waterfall in Nice.  Really cool.  We had to walk up a lot of stairs to get there, but the mist from the water was a nice way to cool off.  There are big bits of stone coming out from the main face, so the water follows all different paths into the pool.

This was the view from our hotel.  Nice is a great place.  The beach was just down to the right

Some people at the airport.

This statue was in the Nice airport.  I sometimes find it hard to draw beautiful things.  Like by  focusing on making something extra nice, it makes it worse.  Or maybe I was just tired.

Back in Chicago for a couple days before heading back to Vancouver.  This is this neat structure and gardens called the Baha'i temple.

A little farther down the road is this harbour that looks out over Lake Michigan.

Thanks for having a look!

Sketching in France II: Corsica

Here are a few more sketches from my trip to Corsica

Some authentic cafe sketching!  The first 4 were done at a cafe while waiting for my breakfast of coffee and croissant.  The last 5 were done this week back in Vancouver, because once my breakfast came I stopped drawing, and I couldn't leave all that blank space there.

View from a hotel in Calvi.  Dinner time prevented me from adding water and sky, but I kind of like it like this.

View from a hotel in Porto.  Looking right up at these big mountains.  Trying to figure out how to show contrast and depth.

Pool in Porto.  This was the rest day of the bike trip.  It was just the right amount of "normal vacation".  After  a lunch of pasta and ice cream, I cooled off in the pool then sketched, napped, and read poolside.  Ya it was pretty sweet.

Back in the pool after dinner.  Cooling my legs in the water I took another stab at the mountains.  It was pretty dark so I couldn't really see what I was doing.

Hotel view in Corte.  Looking out across a busy street, and up a huge flight of stairs.  I like how everything kind of mashes together organically.  Very few straight lines.

Sketching in France

Bonjour.  So it's been a little while since my last post.  It is summer after all, but mostly it's because I've just returned from a great holiday.  We flew in to Nice for a night, then took the ferry across to Corsica the next day.

Most of my sketching in Vancouver is usually people, so I took this opportunity to focus more on where I was.  It's also easy to do when the scenery is so cool.

View from the hotel window

It's fun trying to pick out what details to include, and how to show them.  Especially without colour.

Some buildings up a hill

These felt almost like landscape gestures.  Scribbly, but I know what they are of (even if other people don't haha).

Waiting for the ferry

Big ship on the left.  Ramp up to the city on the right.  Light posts down the middle.

People on the ferry

People waiting are fun to draw.  Especially when I am waiting too.

Sketching certainly takes longer than taking a picture, but it's pretty cool that I can look at these and remember much more about where I was than I could from a photo.

040 - Caf Sketches

Felt like practicing some more faces in the caf after lunch today.  So that's just what I did!

039 - Sketch Crawl: Gastown and Chinatown

Met up with a couple friends from class for some sketching.  I think there was a larger worldwide sketch crawl going on yesterday, but we kind of just did our own thing.  Lots of fun.

Heading downtown on the Seabus.

Just outside Waterfront station.  Apparently this angel actually has wings?

Some random things between Gastown and Chinatown.

This really cool steam whistle clock in Gastown.

Chinatown mall faces.

More Chinatown mall faces.

A badly drawn garden gazebo.

Food court faces near Waterfront.

Chinatown Garden (take 2) and Seabus faces on the way back to North Van.

I haven't put much sketchbook stuff up on here, so this was a nice excuse scan a few sketches.