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

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Road at night.

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Action figure with ink bottle.

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Take yer stinkin' paws off me-- you damn dirty ape! (15 min. "Planet Of the Apes").

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Ink bottle, cow and action figure.

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Douglas Fir beyond roof.

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Computer users.

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Gas pump awning, night.

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Mallard's butt.

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Mallard skull.

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Offering.

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Captain's chair.

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Life study, seated man, drawn in hard primitives.

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Desk.

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Douglas Fir top.

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Woman at workstation.

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Poser cow-maniacs, 6 minutes a piece.

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Savin' Lois. (Took an extra 10 minutes, less half-assed rendering. . .)

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Recliner.

[Aila]

Nice studies so far! I would also suggest switching to blank paper, even though you say nice paper would make you want to draw something more "pretty".. I'm sure there are crappy blank paper pads out there.. you could always try printer paper, that's a devil to draw on. Or letter paper! XD
Apart from that, keep up the practice, maybe go for more detail in some places!

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Hi there Aila!

Nope! Gonna stick with the lined notebook and torture all my viewers! (At least until this notebook runs out. . .)

Detail's tough with the quick rough sketch mode. For me, it takes about a half-hour to produce a reasonably good "figure" without any real background: about 15 minutes of drawing and restating/correcting, then about 15 minutes of rendering and tweaking values. (Given an hour and a half of focus, I can start to produce things that start to take on a professional gloss).

Here, I'm trying to set multiple figures into some sort of composition (usually) and rough in some sort of indication of an "environment" within about 20 minutes-- detail kinda falls by the wayside!

Part of my evil plan: by overloading my brain with these 10 to 20 minute dailys, I hope to get faster in "life drawing," where, for my source, the poses generally only last 20 or 25 minutes at the longest.

Below: Starbucks people, Preston Blair dogs, and the people who replaced the other Starbucks people.

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Leg and torso from Hale's Master Class In Figure Drawing. Probably 15 to 20 min. each.

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Conversation.

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Mom squirrel prepares to save baby. (Reffed from Wasker's "Cheer Me Up Thread" post).

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Double leg takedown with tiny action figures.

[Aila]

Hi there Aila!

Nope! Gonna stick with the lined notebook and torture all my viewers! (At least until this notebook runs out. . .)

Detail's tough with the quick rough sketch mode. For me, it takes about a half-hour to produce a reasonably good "figure" without any real background: about 15 minutes of drawing and restating/correcting, then about 15 minutes of rendering and tweaking values. (Given an hour and a half of focus, I can start to produce things that start to take on a professional gloss).

Here, I'm trying to set multiple figures into some sort of composition (usually) and rough in some sort of indication of an "environment" within about 20 minutes-- detail kinda falls by the wayside!

Part of my evil plan: by overloading my brain with these 10 to 20 minute dailys, I hope to get faster in "life drawing," where, for my source, the poses generally only last 20 or 25 minutes at the longest.

Ah, I see
Well I'll be following your SB, it'll be interesting to see how you progress in this way The last leg anatomy study looks good!

[Kamber Parrk]

Hey Aila, thanks for stopping back!

Progress, I think, will be slow! To the extent that most of these will be multiple figures anchored in some sort of environment, I'll probably get a little tighter, a little more detailed, over the next couple months of (near) daily sketches.

The leg study harkens back to a lot of the more detailed anatomy stuff I was doing over on Michael Mentler's tsofa.com. It's really the type of thing I'm trying to get away from to force myself to think about "making pictures"-- complete works of art, as opposed to just drawing a figure or item that's floating in a vacuum.

But, anyway, you should check out Mentler's site http://tsofa.com --it's a somewhat different vibe than CA!

Below: Parking lot abutting blueberry field.

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Library staircase (w/o stairs), 15 min.

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Readers in Starbucks. (My victims left 8 minutes into this, just spent a few more minutes doing some of the usual "rendering-lite.")

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Squirrels On a Log. After Beatrix Potter.

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Mannikins after various figures in Hale's Anatomy Lessons From the Great Masters. (Around 12 min.)