Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

Going to this meetup can be a good experience! During the golden age of the art forums (around 2010) there were regular meetups in every city and study groups across sketchbooks. After the mass migration to Facebook or wherever everybody went, maybe some of that spirit survived there (but I didn't follow the crowd at the time).

Your portraits are great, I especially like the expressions on the last page in purple hues. There is a problem on some of the pages though, and it may be due to an angled camera, they are skewed as if pulled from the bottom left.

The panicked look I read from the eyes wide open. Since there is a foreshortening here maybe you want the lower eyelids less curved, or curved the other way, to achieve the relaxed mood? If you can forgive my awkward drawover:



Dynamic poses form imagination, I can't provide any advice because I do them by experimentation. Tweaking lines of actions could be a good start?

They had limited tickets, because of the venue. I was umming and ahhing about going, but decided to reserve myself a ticket. Checked back and they are all sold out now. I get worried about people mogging me, but that's just the way it goes. Everyone seem to have percolated out to Twitter and Discord, but it's not the same. Thanks for the compliment on the portraits, I actual felt I was learning new things in that class and that it was sticking. It was super fun! I noticed the girl with the headscarf looks like she's being pulled up right. I tend to do that drawing horizontally, but I'm trying to correct it. It was actually worse, before I brought out the adjustable desk. Ha, I never really noticed that before, but she does have 'Sanpaku eyes', especially her right. 

I had the first atelier class today. We just spent 2 hours on two contour drawings. He showed us a rendering that took him 12 hours to do, because I get anxious over taking a long time on something. Also artists like Susan Lyons that took a long time to learn how to draw/paint. Scans from a larger paper, than my scanner.





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I want to get more into conceptual illustration.