I made Iraida do a few quick-minute sketches to help her get faster. She's been saying that she'd like to speed up her sketches and not mind the details so much, so I took the exercise from Dr. Sketchy...
The quick sketches made it easier to get to the longer sketch of the library. But it was still a sketch... I think by the time I finished, Iraida was just starting (from top down) on the columns...
We would have stayed longer, but it started getting hot. So we packed up, got some lunch, and headed off to Jerry's for Sharon Z's demo...
I tried to talk Sharon into writing a book on how to make and compose sketchbook pages. There are so many books that show samples of sketchbooks and journal pages, but there are few that actually explain or teach how to make good pages to the novice. I figure that they start making those pages themselves after years of practice. This book, the book I tried to talk Sharon into writing, would help the novice to get there much faster. It's really about composition, layout. You can continue working on the drawing and sketches, continue to practice and learn with all the many pages that you create...
Sharon did say that people have been bugging her to write 2 books: calligraphy and journaling. And she made a half-handed comment that I could help her with the journaling one. Perhaps I will send her an email so that she has my contact information, and I can help her to actually do it. That would be pretty freakin' awesome! :-)
Oh, and my brother's pages... I'm so proud of him for actually trying and sticking with it. He didn't even want to be there, and he did a great job...
