Cafe Nero - 23rd February 2006
Fourth cafe sketching trip. Although today's drawings didn't come out as well they did on the last trip (I don't think,) there's a couple of nice-ish ones and it feels good to be getting into a routine with these drawings now.
This drawing has the sketchy quality I'm used to for a first one. Also the proportions are out, largely because I didn't plan the drawing first and started it too far over to the left. Trying to squeeze a drawing in when you've started too far to one side is bad news, but I keep doing it for some reason.
I like this drawing for the subject, but it's not one of the better ones I know.
For some reason this one came out much bigger than usual. This one's getting a bit stronger I think, I like the profile line, its stronger and more definite than the last drawing. I'd have been better off leaving out his joke rubber hand though.
Some of the flow is coming back into the line on this one, but it's a bit late coming. Across the shoulders and the back is nice but I had some problems with the hat and the line of the head. Unfortunately this was a very quick one too, because she left a couple of minutes into the drawing.
I don't think I was on the boil on this trip. But as usual I had a great time doing the drawings, waiting for subjects, and every drawing gets me a bit further along.