Kamber Parrk's Sketchbook Volume 2, Book III (at p. 21)

[Kamber Parrk]

Volume 2, Book III starts an Alternating Daily: 20 to 60 minutes of (mostly) life with a watercolor moleskine, fast contour ink drawing in Uniball 207 AND 30 to 60 minutes on newsprint with HB charcoal pencil, mostly from quality photo ref.


Volume 2, Book II continues the same deal. But, 20 to 60 minutes for "public life," 30 to 60 for refs and masters so I can focus on more refinement, but still have fun with the public stuff. And, my cartoon stuff will fill in for the Daily on days it takes up all my art time.

Volume 2 will be primarily figure studies continuing with HB Generals charcoal pencil and rough newsprint done inside of an hour.


Book IV is primarily in hard, HB, Generals charcoal pencil. Time limit is longer-- 40 minutes to no more than an hour. Rotation: 2 sheets of heads; 2 sheets of figures; 1 sheet of hands; and 1 sheet of composition.

Book III (at page 7) is primarily in black Prismacolor 935 pencil. Ballpoint will still figure from time to time. Same Canson SB, but my time limit will be 15 to 30 minutes. (Up from the 10 to 20 of the first two books).

Book II (at page 4) is in black Bic Round Stick ballpoint and black HB Conte crayon on an 8.5 X 11 inch Canson hardbound sketchbook. Book I was in Bic Round Stic on a dime-store "college ruled" 8 X 10.5 inch notebook

The Goal? 365 sketches by the anniversary of the date of inception! Every 100 images will equal a new "Book."

All criticism respected and eventually responded to!

[Viral Marketer]

As to resizing - You could always preview the image in windows explorer and screencap/edit in paint if you're totally without any image-altering software. Imageshack.us will resize your image for you, so you could just do that and save to your pc before uploading to CA.

I'd suggest using a material with varied width of line too, like a pencil. Keep at it and keep drawing from life!

[Kamber Parrk]

Viral Marketer,

Figured that I could use the Micosoft "picture manager" to do the job.

Sticking with pen for this forum, using other mediums in other fora!

Will see if I can go back and edit the original post. . .

[Kamber Parrk]

bathroom

[adammelo]

Great to see some new faces, keep working on your sketches, check out loomis for studying incase your interested!


Sketch back if you'd like...

[Kamber Parrk]

Thanks for dropping in adammelo!

What's a loomis? (heh! just kidding. . .)

[Kamber Parrk]

Earth scooper.

[Kamber Parrk]

Ornamental Bridge.

[Dr.Blindsy]

Hey!

Nice starts. Your perspective and composition ain't bad for sure. If you want to check out some Loomis stuff for studies n' such, here is a great site, with scans of Loomis's book. If you're anything like me, y'can't just go out n' buy the books.

either way, keep posting and keep drawing!

[Kamber Parrk]

Hey Doc,

Thank ye for the input!

I have been trying to apply some of my perspective book learnin' to these daily sketches-- so, your comment is encouraging.

Mallard Foot, below.

[Kamber Parrk]

Recycling Bins Near Dumpster Enclosure.

[polydrawer]

hey there,

it's good to see you do these rougher sketches but be careful with you lines , don't just scribble but try to think about what needs to be more important (make the line of that a bit darker) and what needs to be in the back. also try using lines that go with the form that you are drawing

keep it up

[Kamber Parrk]

Hey polydrawer,

Mea culpa! Those last two were pretty dang scratchy.

Trying to spend only 10 to 20 minutes maximum on these-- I get really sloppy as my artificial dead-line approaches.

Gas Station.

[Kamber Parrk]

Portrait of a Mallard.

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Ecce Homo.

[Kamber Parrk]

Pier rails.

[Kamber Parrk]

Quick perspective sketch of a match box < 10 minutes.

[Kamber Parrk]

Deadbolt and Door Knob.

[Burdie]

Nice start! You seem to have a good understanding of perspective
Don't worry about time limits for now. Take your time, speed will come later.

I'd also really recommend that you get an actual sketchbook (or at least some blank paper) I seen some artists who get so comfortable drawing on lined paper that when they try to draw on blank paper they have a hard time. The lines are sort of a security blanket for them. Not a good habit to get into.

[Kamber Parrk]

Hey Burdie, thanks fer the visit!

As a would be cartoonist, I've spent a fair amount of time studying D'Amelio's "Perspective Drawing Handbook." My adventures into "Triangle and T-Square Perspective" have left some residual knowledge that helps me visualize horizons and vanishing points by instinct for free-hand formats that would otherwise require a drawing board the size of a car hood.

The lined pages can help me. But, they're not that much of a crutch. Using crappy materials helps me exorcise the "preciousness" out of my work-- I don't expect much-- just 10 to 20 minutes of quick dirty focus each day!

If I were using "The Notebook of Hemingway," I might just be paralyzed by the desire to do something "pretty" rather than something "effective!" LOL!

Below:

What's Gotten Into Our 40 Year Old Dad? Probably too damn much DairyGold Cream Cheese by the look of him!

[Kamber Parrk]

Preston Blair Primitives (dogs).

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Library Emergency Exit.

[aarondru77]

hi Kamber i just friended you on here with my profile and i have albums with all my art work FOR YOU to see I'm sorry i do not know yet how to use this site my friend told me about it but all the forum stuff I'm just clueless any help would be much appreciatecd cant figure out the contest or sketchbook i did figure out how to do a gallery and profile but cant figure out the other stuff PLEASE EXPLAIN AND HELP

[Kamber Parrk]

Hey aarondru77,

After you click "Manage Attachments" the Attachment Manager can be used to browse your hard drive to locate, then upload image files directly from your computer. (Thanks, Jason Manley!)

It won't let you post until you fill in several boxes of identidy material.

Before posting, I've been using my Micro Soft photo manager program to size my work to around 800 X 600 pixels.

[I'll try to, eventually(!), friend you back! I've been pretty dense so far on getting around to learning/using the more social aspects of these boards-- think I still have my person settings on "maximum anti-social-psycho-mode."]

Anyway:

TV top statuary.

[Kamber Parrk]

Splittin' da baby. (17 minute sketch after Raphael).

[Kamber Parrk]

Truck.

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Kitchen sink.

[MrA]

Haha! I love how you draw everything and anything you see... I think it's wonderful. As a growing artist myself, I am gonna try this out. Are you using Pen or Pencil?

[Kamber Parrk]

Hey Mr. A!

Welcome aboard.

I'm using a medium Bic Roundstic ball point.

A lot of what I'm doing here is fast preliminary studies of things that might make interesting paintings or can be incorporated into the "environments" of my cartooning-- it's more art-like "note taking" than anything-- give it a try--it's fun to work free, quick and loose!

(And that's a good excuse for the horrible images in this post! LOL!)

8 minutes of shoes after Hamm.

[Kamber Parrk]

Crucifixion, St. Peter (20 min. after Caravaggio).