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Subway - Bus People Sketches

I started drawing faces while doing the exercises in Carla Sonheim's book Drawing Lab.  The first 60+ were done on watercolor paper and painted with watercolor paints or pencils.  Then a friend gave me a small leather book with drawing paper and I now carry that with me all the time.  So the series changed from color to black and white.  

I try to sketch people when I'm on the bus or subway, but sometimes they leave too quickly, or the crowd blocks my sight-line.  These are ones during the last few months.  I just counted up my faces in the 2 groups and I am over 100!

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Posted by Shirley on July 1, 2013 8:12 PM |

Comments

Great stuff. I did a quick sketch while waiting at the eye doctor and I see a need for some tutorial on drawing faces!!

Posted by: Beth Berman | July 2, 2013 9:52 AM

These are great live sketches!!

Posted by: Dan Kent | July 3, 2013 5:40 PM

Lovely sketches Shirley :)

Posted by: Alex Tan | July 5, 2013 11:48 AM

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