Lahore and Mountains

Some more practice with watercolors. A sweetmaker's shop, a nighttime shot of Badshahi Masjid, both in the city of Lahore and and a view of the mountains also in Pakistan.

Old Lahore Watercolor

Just getting back into watercolors. I painted the same image of the old part of Lahore in a few different ways. For the first one, I sketched out the scene in pencil then painted (building layer upon layer) and added some black marker at the end. For the rest I did no drawing, just straight painting. I felt like I had enough of a feel for it after doing the first one that I didn't need to draw it in with pencil. For the second image I just laid down some light washes and built up value a little, then went in with marker for details. For the third and fourth versions I just painted one cool and warm and the other monochromatic. I want to work on landscapes and city scenes for a bit...take a breather from drawing my poor co-workers...

BBC in stages

Mostly been lighting shots for a short film lately. I did manage to squeeze in this sketch..scanned in stages from pencil, ink to marker. It's based off a photo from the BBC news site.

Sick at home watchin' tv...

This is what you get when you're home sick watching daytime tv...

Monday Faces

Sick...drawings

Gettin' over the flu...nice to draw again...

Ballet, LAX and Acrobats

Just practicing bodies a bit...much to improve.

Shake for the Quake

Went to a concert up in San Francisco in support of the earthquake relief effort in Pakistan and India. It was organized by Project Ahimsa. Did some quick sketches to try and capture some of what I saw..and then I got busy with joining in the fun!

Oh, how I flatter people at work...

More Co-workers

Picked up a few more colors and a blending marker.

More Coworkers and the news

Here are some more unsusupecting coworkers and a sketch based off a picture of protestors I saw on the BBC News website.

Unsuspecting Coworkers

I knew those employee photoes in the company directory would come in handy...

Dancing in the Margins

Went to a dance performance called "Dancing in the Margins" and did these sketches. Lots of fun to try and catch people in motion. I didn't actually do any sketches of my two favorite performances, by Postnatyam Collective and Ana Maria Alvarez. They were so fast paced that I had to choose between watching or drawing...so I watched.

Random Faces 2

Some more heads from memory. Tried to think of a few old friends and draw what I remember about them. Also drew some people at 3rd Street Promenade, including an attempt at the hostess at the resturaunt I ate at.

Random Faces

Here are some random faces I drew from memory or just made up.

Peshawar Dancers

Here again are dancers from Peshawar (dressed in red) and one mentally handicapped man from Bulleh Shah's Urs in Kasur. I tried to draw a few versions of one of the dancers to see what I could come up with.

Assorted Faces

Here are some more practice sketches of faces.

Faces

Here are some more faces. I'm just trying to play around with different faces as well as layering color with markers. I'll slowly go more and more stylized.

Pakistani Kids

Kids watching some dancers from Peshawar at Bulleh Shah's Urs in Kasur Pakistan.

Pakistani Faces

Decided to work on some faces. Still kinda quick, but I actually bothered to use a pencil to lay things out more first...suppose that could help my drawing a bit... So, just playing with layering color with the markers and trying to draw different heads. These are all people I met on my trip to Pakistan last summer.