Loove Drawing in Coffee shops!

Here is about a 20 minute sketch of my friend Amy pretending to do
homework.

Figure Drawings!

IT has been too long.

HEre is a group of scans from my "trip" to starbucks today. I started with a warm up couple of drawings, lines, ellipses, and some actual looking at what was in front of me. Then I move on to a little more of what i see. I think i am starting to understand what the fundamentals actually teach, you make a stroke on the page over and over and make your muscles remember that stroke. Then, after having these line marks or strokes buried so deep in your memory and habits that you can make these lines without looking at the page. You literally Draw what you see and its not just a copy. The third picture took an hour i think.




I was taking a moment to sit back and see what I had done and get another huge cup of coffee,(medium). Before I am able to gather myself enough to stand a woman named Spring pulled up next to my seat. She started talking to me about my drawing. I had a difficult time accepting the compliments. She asked who it was in the picture and why i chose to draw her out of all things. I said, "She was in front of me and probably wouldn't notice that I was drawing her." Spring tells me I should absolutely go and show her. So next, after plenty of insisting, I was forced into showing this stranger a drawing i made of her. Linda May was sitting with two other friends, Paul and Dorothy who were not included in the picture. They stopped talking and drinking coffee and all of them look over my work. The woman I drew looks up at me and wants to keep it. I politely say no to that Idea so now she asks first and then begins to write on the back of the sketch.