Weekly Mind Sketch

Continuing on with my black pen to sketch out hands. I still have a harder time with pen (pencil feels more free and less rigid). But I'm challenging myself to do the harder thing (this will hopefully pay off later). I like the sketchy and bold look of this hand. It's interesting drawing on tan paper, it feels more organic and I've read where it gives you an immediate mid tone background (where white paper you need to build up the midtone). Drawing most days now...will try and keep that up.

Excited I'm keeping up my with hand drawings. I haven't been this consistent for a few years. I find each hand I draw I learn something new. Consistency helps you improve and start to relax and draw with more control and rhythm. I liked how this hand feels somewhat sculptural. I drew with black pen with a touch of brown pen at the end. Only 25 more hands to go until 100!

I'm happy I'm keeping up my drawing more regularly now! Here is another pen drawing, again keeping it free and sketchy and bold. I don't know if I have a style I'm delveloping but maybe I do lean towards more scratchy/bold drawings with movement. Anyhow I am enjoying learning from each drawing I do :}

I'm on a roll today, worked on 2 hands! I worked with Micron pens and liked the scratchy rough texture for this one. A cupped hand is hard with all the shadows, but think this worked out nicely. I am excited I've been drawing more regularly and hope this continues.

Here is a fresh new drawing of 3 hands! I like this for the different brown and beige tones throughtout (and how the texture of the paper shows through the colors). Honestly it was really hard to draw three hands clasping eachother, it got complicated when I started drawing each hand wrapping with the other, I kind of lost which finger belonged to which hand! But I liked the challenge of this group of hands. I'm working towards my 100th hand drawing, I'll keep posting now more regularly!

Here is another hand I did in colored pencil which I love. I was going for a rough, sketchy feel to this. I like the drawing on tan colored paper, it gives it more of a raw and earthy feel. I also liked the dark olive green nails, they add to the bold and organic mood of this drawing.