My friend and co-worker Anthony Holden inspired me today by reminding me not to get to “precious” about what sketches I may upload, take a chance and show sketches that I’m not 100% happy with, but put them up here anyway. I think it’s good advice.
She’s got a few pair of some really cool boots.
I watered our plot at our Community Garden and, while soaking the roots of a sapling, sketched some of the blossoms of a nearby peach tree. The bees were busy…
I made this sketch on New Year’s Day — what we usually have for breakfast on Christmas and New Years: smoked salmon, bagels, cream cheese, olives and onions. I’m feeling a tad self-conscious about the perspective glitch on the olive dish, but, as always, these sketches are done directly in ink in my sketch book with no penciling or planning, let the chips fall where they may! — it’s part of the fun of it all. Happy new year to everyone!
I did this sketch yesterday on my iPod using an app called “Brushes”. I saw France Belleville-Van Stone use it in her blog, thought the results were interesting and wanted to try it out for myself. This sketch is of my current office mate Ryan. I like the fact that it uses layers close to the way Photoshop does. And it’s kind of interesting for me to draw, write and even post to my blog from a single little hand-held device (I got the WordPress app too!). I know, I’m a geek. But there is something compelling to me about the self- contained portability of it all.
A few days ago my oldest turned 18. That fact amazes me no end and I probably shouldn’t think about it too much. Anyway, it was a great day. We went to the Kinokuniya Book Store in Little Tokyo, had some spicy noodles for lunch, went home with our purchases (he got some special drawing pencils and I got a mini-water brush — kind of funny to go to a book store and come back with art supplies, but hey), then had some sushi at the restaurant down the street. Very fun, sort of inadvertently Japanese-themed day.
Anthony Zierhut 