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Inktober 2015: Day 7 and 8

October 9, 2015September 22, 2019 by Lianne

#Inktober Day 7 and 8: For the online drawing class I’m taking, Gesture Drawing with Alex Woo, I have to practice drawing an animal in preparation for next week’s lesson. I figured Newton would be the perfect subject!

I’m really enjoying my online Schoolism subscription. They’re self-taught, learn-at-your-own-pace classes with really great lectures, and affordable to boot! I went to Schoolism’s live gesture drawing workshop in Vancouver a couple years back, and their online class version is more in-depth. Even though you can’t get personalized critiques with the Schoolism online class subscription, you can view other students’ critiques from previous classes. I highly recommend the online class subscription program if you’re a busy person, but want to learn new things that will help you improve on your art.

Inktober 2015: Day 1-6

October 7, 2015September 22, 2019 by Lianne

This vacation was the first time we dropped our dog off with a dog sitter. I never expected myself to get so weepy about it. Lots of drawing mistakes due to being rusty and airplane turbulence.

What I love best about tropical islands are the foliage and the neat silhouettes they create.

The birds of Key West: spotted these waterfowl on my walk to the beach.

Sorry, Karl, I could’ve drawn you better.

Drawn while sitting at the beach. Storm clouds came and went so I had to draw this off and on over the course of a few hours.

Drawn while waiting for our 1st leg of our flight going back home from vacation.

#Inktober Days 1-6: It’s that time of year, Inktober! I had an unusual challenge for the beginning of this month: I would be on vacation/traveling during the first 6 days of Inktober. Similar to exercising while on vacation, it was a challenge for me to keep up drawing daily. However, going to a new locale is inspiring in itself, and I never ran out of subjects to draw. Key West is a nice change of pace from Seattle. Now that I’m back from my cross-country trip, here are the drawings for October 1-6!

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Rebelle practice

August 17, 2015September 22, 2019 by Lianne

My friends, David and Skye, got me this fantastic little art program called Rebelle for my birthday. It’s the best watercolor simulated paint program I’ve used so far: it has a lot of fun controls that make the watercolor appear more organic, such as tilt, blowing air onto the canvas, adjusting pigment load and water. You can even see which spots of your canvas are wet, something I haven’t seen in any other program.

It is a new program, so there’s weird little bugs here and there, but nothing to stop you from having fun with it.

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Gesture drawings practice

April 28, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

Gesture practice, trying to loosen up.

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Lucky

April 23, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

A doodle, testing out my new Cintiq. 😀

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Sunday night sketch

April 20, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

Sunday night sketch, reference photo from The Satorialist

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Our hairy baby!

April 6, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

My husband and I adopted our first hairy baby a few weeks ago from the Seattle Humane Society, and we are in love. Our dog, Newton, is a Basenji/Terrier mix and is such a sweetheart. He loves snuggling and meeting new people and dogs. He’s the best.

I had Friday off and thought it’d be a good time to practice some watercolor techniques I’m reading about in “Urban Watercolor Sketching“. Since Newton likes to nap a lot, he’s the perfect model.

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Hubby sketch

March 12, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

Sketch during last Drink and Draw. Poor Karl tends to be the subject of my drawing experiments. Thanks for putting up with it! <3

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Zoka barista

January 17, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

Thanks for the delicious gingerbread latte, Mr. Zoka barista!

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NYC Gesture drawings

January 3, 2015September 23, 2019 by Lianne

NYC is a people watcher’s paradise! I took this for granted when I used to visit the city as a kid. I found that sitting at a cafe with a window that faces a crosswalk is the best: you get a little more time observing AND new “models” stream in every few minutes with the crosswalk light changing.

The bottom page was watching siblings doodle in their own notebooks while sitting on the window ledge above the chairs in the waiting area outside our airport gate. It was fun watching them sit somewhere people wouldn’t normally sit; but that’s what’s fun about kids. They see things differently than adults.