W28 - 25 - FMO - No F's Were Given!

5.5x8.5 sketchbook

Power went out today around 4pm. So I took a bus trip downtown to draw at Powells books. Rather dumb of me to take the bus instead of the max. Took me two hours to get downtown. As you might imagine I sketched most of the time.

This first page was trying to take numbers letters or a single or pair of lines and turn them into an expressive form. This is not actually the case with 5, I was trying to create a composition of tension between the figures with a harsh angle. I found that my attention gets drown to the left of the intersection in this case. So would be a good place to put something of importance. Each was about 30 second to a minute.

Breakdown; 8 a dude sitting across from me sleeping. 9 a blind gesture looking at myself in the window, kind of got overtaken by 12. 10 a terrible care from my head. 11 an eye? 12 my shoe and pant bottoms with a little of the back bus step. 13 my thumb on the page, 14 random circles to refresh my pens ink turned skull. 15 an 'S' with a diagonal line through it turned into a woman sitting down with her arms crossed. Each took about two minutes.

These were drawn at powells, I was rather stiff and cold at this point. 19 is a reclining figure derived from a '7'. 20 is two figures interacting. 21 again going for the  harsh angle composition. Ended up decapitating the background figure in the comp. 22 a hulking figure. Each of these as maybe a minute? I like 20, I might do a paint of it if I remember to.

Bought four new uni-ball pens (two black, two red) today for sketching since my old ones are running low on ink. This page is the first I used the black pens on. I was rather disappointed as they do not laydown ink consistently without a lot of pressure and even then it is sporadic. I will make sure to test all the pens I buy from now on. Though I've never had this problem before. I switched over to red after the second sketch. 25 and 24(actually 26) were different black pens. 25(actually 27) was my red pen I was using on the bus. Felt good and laid consistent ink. 15, 25, 26, 27 are all rodin sculptures from Google. Each is about three minutes.

Thanks for reading here are the images of Rodin I used.

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