End of book 2 - kids

Students during study hall while I was subbing middle school. 

End of book

I'm down to the last 4 pages of my sketch book (I love this moment!) so I'm just going to post a last batch of my favorite sketches that I haven't posted yet. 

From a trip to Oklahoma - jonas fell asleep in the car on a trip to Martin nature center - so I let him sleep and sketched him. 

A house near the playground 

Went to lunch with Jesse and after he left I drew the bottom of this huge tree. 

I locked my keys in the car - drew this while I waited for Jesse to rescue me. Added color later.

Cats

Nobody will sit still in the evenings so I can draw them. Least of all my cats. 

Jesse playing guitar

Jesse moved and refused to sit still so I couldn't finish - but I like it as a beginning :)

Boot

I drew my boot at basketball practice. Focused on shading. 

Lego night

Jesse and Jonas playing Legos. 

Toby in the morning

I love this sketch. He looks so cozy. I made the sofa bigger than it is so he looks even more enveloped in it. Arm to head ratio may be completely wrong - but I think I'm moving in the right direction

Froggie

Next in the quicky blobby animal series. I might have to break down and start doing a quick pencil sketch to start. That head is just wrong. 

Chat chat

I have a New Years resolution to internet less - so while chatting online with a friend I drew the pencil jar on the desk instead of browsing Facebook. Yay!

Christmas Day at the park

A fairly accurate depiction of how I was feeling yesterday

Backyard tree

Waiting for the 4 year old

Jonas was cranky while we were out walking so he decided to lay down and be grumpy in the grass. I wasn't in a hurry that day - so I just let him lay there as long as he wanted and scribbled this sketch with the pencil in my pocket. 

Eyes

Today's secret of drawing heads was about drawing eyes. Which I already feel pretty strong on, but practice never hurts.

Mandalas

When left with kids art supplies to work with (crayons, sidewalk chalk) my favorite thing to draw is mandalas.

Pizza west table paper:

More heads

Next in my head exploration, I made more basic head maps. I looked at photos from my old high school year book to explore different head angles

Head maps

Continuing my attempts to learn the secrets of heads. I started with som maps from the book

The edge of the Parkville water fall

Spent the beautiful day outside. Went for a hike and painted the water fall. I'm not sure it really captures what's going on - but I like it as a sketch anyway. 

And these roots were twisty and wonderful

Science room animals

I'm a substitute teacher for 7th grade science today. The room has all kinds of animals that the kids are free to take out and play with. So cute. 

Backs of kids heads

Drawn with a mechanical pencil - which someone had left behind in a previous class - so I thought I'd give it a try. And I didn't hate it like I usually do. Then another kid stole that mechanical pencil. So now I dont have one. The circle of writing implements flows on. (Cue dramatic music)

Heads

I've been trying to sketch people and they are still frustrating me. I grabbed a book at the library: secrets to drawing heads. The first secret is to do it a lot quickly to practice proportion maps and get it really second nature. This was surprisingly fun :)