Comments on: Sketchbook Page

By: Sharon Griffith

Sharon Griffith — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:38:06 +0000

I look at “sketches” I’ve done that are what I want and you are so right, they are done in live, quickly and in the moment. If I try to do one from a photograph like I read about others doing, it doesn’t work for me. Either it’s all live or maybe I’ll do some old photos only time myself to a given amount of minutes, like life drawing!

By: zeladoniac

zeladoniac — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:36:43 +0000

True, Sharon, the accepted range is huge, and that’s good. There’s a difference between a sketch and a finished drawing. Something that’s done quickly and on the spot would be a sketch and probably have that looseness you mention. A finished drawing can be a tightly rendered graphite piece that looks like a painting in tones of gray.The work I have up here ranges from very quick loose sketching to more “finished” pieces, but all of them are done in the field, plein air, within an hour or so. Are they drawings or sketches? You’ll have to be the judge!

By: Sharon Griffith

Sharon Griffith — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:36:28 +0000

I’m trying to become a sketcher instead of a painter and just when I think I’ve got the looseness and “sketchiness” I get on someone’s website and see what seems like finished paintings albeit they are sometimes in pencil or pen. Evidently the accepted range is huge!!

By: Dan Killebrew

Dan Killebrew — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:33:05 +0000

Originally from OK, I feel “kin” to your sketches. As an architect, I carry the typical yellow trace, markers, laptop, and PDA. But also stuffed in my bag is a moleskine, and some fat cretacolor leadholders for sketching. I get the same “breath of fresh air” feeling from seeing your sketches as I do from doing my own. — thanks for sharing.

By: Kate (Cathy) Johnson

Kate (Cathy) Johnson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:40:37 +0000

What a wonderful idea! I love your sketches…