November 2008 Virtual Sketch Date
Autumn Tree, pitt pens (10×8 cm)
Autumn Tree Sketch, pencil in 9×12 sketchbook
This is my interpretation for November’s Virtual Sketch Date. Originally I wanted to do this in Pen and Ink and it would have been really awesome too, but I was just too taken up by other projects this week that I didn’t have the time to do it justice. So I made the pencil sketch first but thought that maybe I got bogged down with the details too much for my own good. My second itereation was the one done in marker. I do like how that one came out better. I tried to edit things out and be more simple—I wanted it to feel like it was on a windy day and all the leaves had blown off the tree. I used my landscape and grayscale Pitt pens which I got a few months ago but haven’t used too many times. I can’t wait to see what everyone else has come up with for this one.
I was a bit hasty in my scanning and was intending on rescanning them, but I am away from home this weekend. Today I am taking a Saturday class at the Worcester Art Museum. It is an art advice workshop not an actual art class. One of my goals in 2008 was to take an art class but it didn’t materialize because of other circumstances and because I couldn’t find anything decent. I hope this inspires me to really amp up my art efforts, although I am pleased with myself so far this month.
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I love the graphite version…very nice, just the feeling you’d have in a place with lots of trees!
Gosh, Carolyn, I like all these trees, but the one that really speaks to me is the graphite version. There is a real beauty and rhythm to the strokes in that drawing.
Carolyn, your colored drawing feels like a brisk fall day which has just a few remaining warm rays of sun. The graphite drawing is just as nice. I like the complex feel with all the leaves and texture. Both are well done.
Hi Carolyn, have to admit I prefer the graphite drawing too. I love the way you’ve drawn the leaves and the bendy branches, it’s a great piece of work.
I like both of these. Nice job with the markers. But I could get lost in the pencil drawing.
They both feel like dreamscapes!
Wonderful work!
I am parcial to pencil drawings, and I think yours is outstanding. It has wonderful movement. The color drawing is great too, well done.