March sketchbook
In March, I’ve been drawing a lot, but not that much in my sketchbook. So let’s take a look.
On Katie Moody’s Patreon, this month’s focus was sketching from life. In the first session, we drew our art materials.
I also painted some old Duplo toys and a dinosaur. I really dislike this sketch.
And I did one more traditional still life from a picture.
I was sent a set of paintbrushes to try from Artify and used them for a painting in my sketchbook (video below).
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For the International Day of Forests, I painted this scene from the Swedish woods:
Now onto my homework for the comic course from Stripgids.
I already shared one semi-final attempt of a cliffhanger here. But it all starts with a sketch, of course.
During the class on cliffhangers, I felt a bit left alone with a task that I didn’t fully understand. I wish we had just a bit more info/theory on what this is, what works, or some good examples. I read comics, and know it is used for series too, but as we had to start drawing right away during class, I googled the concept on my phone.
Next up was a class by Thibau Vande Voorde. Very welcoming and chill. He started with a presentation of his work and had some original sketches to show (always suuuper interesting, I think), and then we got a series of exercises.
We got short stories, just a few lines, and had to translate each one into 3 frames. I chose to always work with 3 small frames in a row, just to be able to focus on what I could be drawing instead of the how. I’m not a comic artist so I’d need more time to think about frames or other page setups.
Then for our final work/homework, we had to make a cover for one of the stories. I chose the one with the cactus.
Drawing lots of different cactus shapes and searching for a good balance between the spooky aspect of the story while keeping its secret a mystery.
The theme for TJ’s Patreon this month was ‘zines’. Oh, I love making zines!
For our first session, I joined with only 30 minutes left- since I had forgotten about the switch to summer time in the USA. I scribbled as fast as I could to get something on my page for the folded zine:
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Our second session was about wildlife in Florida (where TJ lives)- and I was on time! 🙂
We had the option to go for either the folded A3 zine or a meandering one (or just draw in a sketchbook, of course). I tried the meandering one.
