Bus sketch'es 1.2.3.4.5.

**eighty+** · 06-03-2011

2nd 5 ok

**eighty+** · 06-03-2011

that 's todays as they say u can't win them all

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**Mairzie Dotes** · 06-03-2011

eighty+,
I always have to check in to see who you have added to your sketch pad
collection ... quite engaging! The little girl on the steps sketch reminded
me of when I first discovered that, as a toddler my little legs now had the
ability to move me up and down the set of stairs in my home ... allllllllll by
myself and what a happy discovery it was.

**eighty+** · 06-04-2011

blimey Mairzie if u can remember that now wonder your reaching for

the stars don't think I come to until I was 8

**D Akey** · 06-04-2011

Look at you go 80+, especially considering the speed limit is 65 here. I got a speeding ticket the other day and while the cop said I was going 80+ he knocked it down to 79. Mine is not the Master's collection though, it was the Bastard's collection (me being said bastard, but I digress).
So in honour of this mercy, I shall call you 79. You don't mind me calling you 79 do you? Cause this art you're doing is obviously making you younger and younger.

I'm very impressed by your sketches. And some are a wee bit stronger than others I think, as always seems to be the case with sketches, but they are overall holding a respectable level. You've got a good chronicle of where your eye goes.

One thing that you seem to be doing is looking for the portrait resemblance somewhat which is great. It's also kinda cool if you show it to the individuals. They're flattered and it's an open door if people then wish to speak to you or visa-versa. My dad was of the kind who would speak to everybody, but he wasn't an artist. Me, on the other hand, I never really showed my sketches to the subject. I was more private that way. Just thinking aloud here.

But I would suggest a couple other things to look at:

1) you may want to begin thinking in terms of paintings. And should you want to, you may want to also use sketching as a way to open up your canvas strategy, setting your light and dark pattern and how the eye moves around the canvas, especially when you get into the more full figure studies. It'll help you when you go to painting.

2) You may also consider developing a formula for how you approach a head or a figure. I'm not saying you haven't got a loose formula, but it's never a bad thing to consider what marks and nature of marks best describe a head and figure. I think the advantage to this is that you can seriously improve on your images by making them work as your own rather than being held accountable for each little thing that you are looking at. You're not a camera after all.

Anyway, aside from those comments, the energy of your work is awesome and you are really looking well and getting to where you can get it down on (virtual) paper very well indeed. Well done you!

**eighty+** · 06-04-2011

D Akey 1st things 1st I'm flattered by your comments thank you
from someone who's had a art training, you can understand that the bus
sketches at the start where hard to do with the bumping along but after
the first 600 I now find it easy as have leant how to draw in a Stagecoach

but looking through my art books come across one by a Ron Tiner
called Figure Drawing Without a Model must have got some time ago
but must have bunged it in the book shelve and forgot it but on reading it he insists a sketch pad is a must, which I take everywhere anyway but he said get out and draw people sitting walking ..whatever but draw them that's why I'm trying to draw them outside the mall as I got slung out from inside went inside as was too windy but I think doing Sargent's and holbein's works
and now Rubens has helped made the eye's focus more , I also did'nt like to show my sketch'es as they were only roughs done for practice but some people insist so it don't worry me now as to a formula to drawing I changed style completely now I loosely
scrible in a rough block or outline then the detail thats why the ears sometimes float
round the head or cheeks are to fat / thin , as for painting was quite happy real canvas and oil paint but hav'nt managed in artrage thanks again for your help from 79

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tiner

**Lima** · 06-04-2011

Hey, Akey, fantastic, isn't? By the way, our 79 - friend is amazing with these sketches ... he even made your portrait ... it has an aspect of 64, I think.