Sketching, Illustration, Design and Everyday Life.
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Sketchbook #95: My Succulents
They live outside and I often use them as subjects when I test some new painting supplies or set-up to see if things would work smoothly in the field - even if it's 2 feet away from home :)
Back form another Caribbean Adventure - part IX (Last One :)
Last batch of sketches from my underwater adventure: collection of fish tails, Angel fish and some colorful sponges and arrowhead crabs.
And here is the video of me in action: sketching while scuba diving!
And here is the video of me in action: sketching while scuba diving!
Back form another Caribbean Adventure - part IIX
Notes on these sketches are bringing back lots of little memories - I already forgot that something stung me on that dive but I remember well how I was hanging there waiting for my ears to equalize and drawing a soft coral swinging right below me in the light swell of the sea. Or that note about "we are back" - next to a strange-looking squiggly - it's a drawing of a large coral and sponge formation - so unique in it's size and shape that you can immediately recognize where you are and orient underwater (not that easy fit normally - especially if part of your attention goes to drawing :)
Sketchbook #95: Early Start of the Swimming Season
Drawing swimmers is hard for me and many pages did not make it here - but to acknowledge the beginning of the season and work on drawing swimming people I am posting a few sketches form the first practice :) (drawing trees is much easier hence the last sketch in this post - from the same day and location by the pool ;)
Back form another Caribbean Adventure - part VI
And the next time I took a yellow-orange prismacolor pencil with me underwater and was very happy with the results. Plus I found a good place to keep my drawing supplies from escaping :) We also found a crab in the middle of the day (it's a rare find :) and a really cool coral formation!
Back form another Caribbean Adventure - part V
This was the dive when I realized that I really need to add yellow to my color arsenal, found a GREAT Koh-I-Nor multicolor pencil (many pencils don't work well underwater), did next dive with it and lost it underwater!
Back form another Caribbean Adventure - part IV
Images around the taped in underwater sketches were added later - these are scans from the sketchbook itself. You can see how I got my nails cleaned by cleaner shrimp and how I tried to incorporate people in my underwater scenes. Also I think this was the only vertical composition I did - should try more next time!
Sketchbook #95!
Never mind that I am drawing in the middle of Sketchbook #96 now - but at least I am done posting from #94! This was a smallish sketchbook - you'll see it all within a week I think.
Back form another Caribbean Adventure - part II
One of my favorite underwater things to do is to find a fish that is camouflaging and then see if I can look away and then back and find it again :) Lizard fish is one of the great subjects for this game.
Juvenile Spotted Drum fish was very hard to draw - it kept turning and even though I spent a good while trying to capture it the result is very poor.
Oh - and another interesting thing to do underwater is if you see a fish that usually stays with it's partner to find that partner and observe them together. Like these two Rock Beauty Angels (yellow and dark blue-to-black) snacking on a large porous vase sponge and chasing each other at the same time.
Original underwater sketches are taped in my regular sketchbook and comments and drawings around are done on the dry land a bit later.
Juvenile Spotted Drum fish was very hard to draw - it kept turning and even though I spent a good while trying to capture it the result is very poor.
Oh - and another interesting thing to do underwater is if you see a fish that usually stays with it's partner to find that partner and observe them together. Like these two Rock Beauty Angels (yellow and dark blue-to-black) snacking on a large porous vase sponge and chasing each other at the same time.
Original underwater sketches are taped in my regular sketchbook and comments and drawings around are done on the dry land a bit later.
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