Retro Sketch

These are from a sketchbook back in 2003. Both are graphic renditions, rendered in markers, of two aspects of Israeli culture. The first is a graphic take on the festival of Sukkot, where living and eating is done outdoors for seven days in a temporary shelter with a porous roof designed to let the skies show through a layer of reeds, bamboo, and vines. The second is a closeup of the tallit, loosely translated into English as a “prayer shawl”, and focuses in where the shawl meets the tzitzit – the four knotted group of strings at each corner, with the total number of knots adding up to 613 – one for each mitzva in the Torah. The tallit is generally white, with a blue striped pattern, though this is not a standard rule, rather, just a custom.

Metro Sketch

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted sketches done on the Washington, DC Metro. Here is a page of those sketches, mainly quick studies of arms, legs, hands, feet, and the rested, sleeping head of a Washingtonian blown out by an exhausting day of work in the Nation’s capital.

original drawing for pen and ink

My good friend and fellow FIT Illustration graduate Shimra Starr has just started blogging. She’s got oodles of raw talent and explores multiple styles. She’s got great technique and a real love for the art of illustration.

shimrastarr

Just to show you a bit of my work process, here is the original hand drawn in pencil. I then traced it in brush pen and that is the drawing you guys all saw a few days ago. as you can see I couldn’t fit it all on one piece of paper and used another to fit the rest of the lady’s hair.

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Wednesdoodles: Project Complete!!

I’ve ben following the work of this very talented and very fun artist, and in particular, this creative and very enjoyable project she’s been working on. Check out these ingenious little 3D illustrated houses she’s made, they’re lots of fun!

Public Interest Design Visual Notes

A former mapping colleague of mine was recently mentioned amongst the 100 notable people in Public Interest Design (PID). I’d never heard of PID before, but it sounded interesting enough, and they have a website with a link to a TED Talk about PID by Sami Nerenberg of Design for America. Deciding to kill two birds with one stone (or, one sketchbook and two pens), I used the TED Talk both to learn about PID and to do some visual note taking (“sketchnoting”). PID is actually pretty interesting, and here’s what I came up with:

 

Starbucks Destroy!

I had some time to kill, so I hung out at a Starbucks to have some coffee and scrawl around in my sketchbook. Not really having anything in mind to draw, I just drew my coffee, and added on to it. I may or may not develop this drawing, but is was quite some fun to do.

Retro Sketch

This is from a sketchbook back in 2003. There is no reason or meaning behind this drawing; this style of characters and facial profiles were just my visual “go-to”s when I simply wanted to draw without having a particular subject matter in mind.

 

Metro Face, Time, and Place

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted one of my sketches done while riding the Metro. Here’s a new one (well, not so new; done a few months back on a very typically scorching Washington, DC summer day)

Retro Sketch

Here is a watercolor sketch I did back in 2003. This sketch was done on a hazy summer day from the Great Lawn of New York City’s Central Park, looking south down onto midtown Manhattan.

 

Another Ballpoint Pen Drawing

Here is the second drawing I did with my BiC 4-color ballpoint pen. Like the previous drawing, this was also done into a 5×8 sketchbook, this time based on a more-developed pencil drawing. And like the previous drawing, I’ve again gone the route of pro wrestling, only this time inspired by “The Crusher”, song about a wrestler by The Ramones.