I did this while waiting for the take-out to come. As soon as I laid the last wash, the man handed me the bags and off I went. Perfect timing. There’s always the fear lurking that I won’t have time to finish a sketch, with the subject walking off or something or other.
I’ll be bringing her to “Take your child to work” day tomorrow. Should be fun!
I know it’s a day or two late, but here it is. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
Playing with another fountain pen.
Nice relaxing evening, waiting for the coals to heat up. I found a cheap calligraphy pen at the local art store this afternoon and so decided to try it out, this time using my daughter’s watercolor set — a tiny thing that fits in the palm of your hand and has eight or ten colors! It might be my new favorite combination.
This is the best explanation of what a storyboard artist does I’ve ever seen: The Art of Storyboarding. It’s only thirteen minutes long, but goes into the history of it, starting with Disney, and even getting into the use of storyboards for live-action filmmaking. This is what I’d like to show people when they ask, “Just what exactly does a storyboard artist do?” I found it via Enrico’s blog.
As I was walking to work this morning through our urban/suburban neighborhood I heard a rustling to my right. I turned to see something astonishing: a bird flying away with another bird gripped below it. It looked almost like a big ball of flapping feathers. The next second I realized it was a young, fairly small red tailed hawk lifting a pigeon across the street and up to a nearby tree. Both birds were about the same size, with the hawk having something like a two-foot wing span, about half the size of most adult red tailed hawks in this part of the world. The hawk landed in the tree limbs up about 15 feet above me and started to tear the pigeon apart, eating it. I pulled out my sketchbook and started to draw what I saw. The sketch below it was from memory as it flew past my shoulder on its way to the tree. I was treated to my own personal National Geographic special in the middle of the city.
There was a fundraiser tonight at the local elementary school where my wife teaches art. This is from about an hour ago. Jack took a break to draw something, then I drew him. He got up eventually, leaving me to draw the studio classroom behind him. I may throw some watercolor on this at a later date…
Anthony Zierhut 