Jocelyn Curry

To Summarize: Drawing Group consists of three of us. I guess it should be Drawing Trio. But that's beside the point. We alternate homes for our morning visit/eat/draw sessions and for the fourth session we have a little field trip. In February we went to the Café Louvre (previously Tully's, and still a friendly, roomy café with excellent baked goods) in Edmonds. We scored a spacious table with a good view of the clinetèle and then started what is a tricky exercise: sketching people quickly–because people move.

Here are a few of the sketches that we deemed fit to print:

Notes: excellent perspective for a quick sketch. There is little or no time to erase and correct when sketching quickly so the accurate capture of distance is impressive in this sketch. Another effective aspect here is that the most distant man is sketched more lightly, telling us that he is farther away. Yet, he is the focal point for me because we see his face and his situation by the fire.

Notes: the most distant man in the sketch above is the same as I captured here.

Notes: with a few pencil lines, the drawer indicates that this is a female. We noted that the café was hosting a lot of men enjoying camaraderie and reading by the fireplace.

Notes: one challenge in drawing in ink is that every mark is strong. Therefore, the baby's face needed to be indicated with as few marks as possible so that it remained babyish and sweet.

Notes: one super-quick sketch by me. I like the spareness of this one.

Notes: the ink I used makes this man's face more severe than it would have appeared had I used pencil. I'm glad he didn't come to take a look; we try to be inconspicuous in our sketching activity!