About 18 months ago I started a ridiculously challenging condensed Masters Degree. A two year program delivered in 18 months with all of the insanity that entails and essentially no breaks or time to come up for air. One week ago today, I attended my graduation ceremony! Yay! I have finally completed the degree and the insanity is over. The following sketches are my impressions from the graduation ceremony. Now you can pretend that you were there with me watching me receive my hard-earned masters degree. Continue reading
Sketches from Graduation Day
This next collection of the unposted sketches of 2017 can be generously referred to as commissions, though I have yet to be paid anything in exchange for drawing something. Most of these were, however, drawings that someone asked me to do. Some of them were direct requests and others were indirect requests but most of them received at least a little bit more effort than my standard doodles and sketches. 
My favourite things to sketch are and always have been people. Sometimes I try to make up people but I’m still not very good at it and those are often my worst sketches. So instead, I draw the people around me, be they friends, acquaintances or complete strangers who give me funny looks when they catch me. So here’s a selection of a few of those from the past few months. 
This ought to be a pretty short post because my doodles aren’t really worth too much time or very many words being spent on them. These were all short silly sketches that I did mostly just for fun as the fancy struck me. 
Mostly I’ve just been doodling at random over the past seven months. I did however spend a little bit of time trying to develop my skills and drawing strategies in certain areas. Primarily I was targeting heads and faces. It seems like those have been my main focus for the past three years or so but I still feel pretty lost when it comes to drawing them consistently or following any of the proportion guidelines I’ve read. 
Well, it has clearly been an age since I last posted! I can’t believe that I haven’t posted at all in 2017 yet! We’re already seven months in. It’s a travesty really.
I’ve been meaning to update for a while now but it just hasn’t happened. I wish I could claim that I was busy doing very productive things but I’m afraid there hasn’t been quite enough of that recently either. 
As predicted I did not get much drawing done during my break. Actually I think that this silly dragon sketch may be about the only thing I did draw during the actual break. Well … there were a couple other silly little doodles too. I never entirely stop drawing. Those ones were even worse than this one is though and most of them were erased, deleted or just plain thrown in the bin. 
