Lorien rambles.

On Sketching and Moleskins

2007-09-16T13:44:11Z

I have pretty much spent the entire weekend reading about Moleskines, GTD and sketching kits/hacks. I would include a list of all the links that I explored, but it would take too long and I've closed most of those tabs already.

Oh, okay, fine. Start with this link at 43 Folders. And have a look here for creative inspiration for what you can do inside one of these notebooks. (Also, if anyone can tell me where I can get that pen holder clip he's got on the spine of his moleskine, I'll be eternally grateful.) As for the GTD stuff, it's all over the place. Google it.

My other key diversion was sketching in these books. I've already finished one moleskin a while ago and I'm halfway through my second. Plus, I have the larger sketchbook, but I haven't done much in it so far.

So this weekend, I stopped reading about sketching and grabbed some supplies and went to sketch the doggies. I didn't use a pen/pencil at all. It was pure watercolour and I am sadly out of practice. But I guess that's the whole point of the exercise, right?

Sketch Kit

My next step will be to find a little mint tin with a hinge so that I can make a little water colour box out of it. Those Pelikan paints are easily 25 years old and it wouldn't surprise me if they were 35 years old (they were my mother's originally).

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Dr Sketchy Melbourne - Aug 07

2007-08-31T01:16:43Z

I went to this month's life drawing session and it ROCKED! It took me a while to get back into the groove, but I'm pretty happy with the progress I'm making with this.

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Koi fish, my style

2006-11-09T07:20:56Z

fiona-koi-water-drawing.jpg

This was originally an idea for the Vox Banner contest, but I was too slow. I decided to finish the piece anyway and I did a little colouring in photoshop. I think it can look a lot better, but this shows what I had in mind.

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Picture A Day: Day 8

2006-10-22T10:20:27Z

Mike draws

Some days are harder to get a photo, I get shy about taking photos, or I'm too busy enjoying the moment to want to step out of it and take a photo. That's probably the main thing about taking photos that I'm not fond of. It takes you out of the action, separates you from what's happening in front of you. Seems funny considering that it seems like you'd be even more attentive and more aware of your subject, but that's not true. As soon as you bring in a camera, your attention is on framing, timing, lighting... and if you're photographing people, they always tense up and stop doing whatever it was you wanted to capture, either in embarrassment or to pose.

So last night, I realised that a whole day passed and I had nothing for the day. Mike was drawing and I could just see him beyond the fan and monitor. I set the camera on a 2 second timer, put the camera on the table and hoped for the best. I quite like the result, even though you can't see his face, his hand is there, the mouse looks enormous and the light in the background brings your eye back around the image.

/ramble

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I made this!

2006-08-17T23:16:25Z

Koi sketch

My man van is getting a tattoo this afternoon and we're very excited. It'll be his first one (but not his last!), so he won't be a tattoo virgin anymore! Woohoo!

Anyway, I drew this in the tattoo shop (with inspiration from the flash on the walls) while waiting for my sister, who was getting her dragon tattoo finished. The picture shows it about an hour before it was finished. I think it's pretty awesome. :)

Tanya's newest tattoo

And that's all from me today, unless the QOTD is interesting...

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