Olooriel's Practice Blog

[Olooriel]

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Thank you very much! :)

Just some older sketchbook stuff for today, still trying to catch up:

Top left guy from memory after I saw him at the bus station, so the pose got rather stiff. Children top right from observation on the train, both portraits are the same one from different angles, and I know that the perspective on the baby buggy is a mess, need to learn some perspective. The woman with the pointy nose didn't actually look like that, but her shadow did. The guy to her left noticed me drawing him and changed seats - mucho awkward. I took to practising circles after that...
The bottom ones were done a different time, on vacation. We were driving past that church, so I did not have much time to make it look better. The portrait is from an ad in a magazine, way too photoshopped, but I did not have any better reference. Bottom right is my own hand from life, for the same reason.


From the same vacation, some stuff from life (didn't have enough time for that fountain):


The thumbnails at the top are from a train ride, trying to find a good composition in the landscape passing by (which is generally pretty boring). Then more circle practice.
The bottom half was a sunny day that I took my sketchbook out to draw people and pigeons by the river.


Left this one out of my Edinburgh vacation sketches when I posted them earlier, because I didn't like how it turned out:


And some buildings, top one here by the river again, bottom in Edinburgh from a cafe window while having my breakfast:


And for the record, I hate it when people on the street ask me stuff like "Do you paint, or is that a hobby?" Eh... what?