E.O.Brown Sketchbook: January 2014

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Rosa Parks

Drawing of Rosa Parks for part two of "Taking Up the Cross" by Eric Sterbenk

You can read it on his blog:

http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/taking-up-the-cross-part-two/

Read part one here:

http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/taking-up-the-cross/

Thursday, January 23, 2014

This is a sketchbook page from late December. "Thinking of summertime snacks on my sunny back porch." Nice to think of warm sunny days and fresh food from the garden on yet another day that dips below zero degrees. (The polar bear is from a previous post...he just happened to be on this page but is also appropriate for sub-zero weather.)

Monday, January 20, 2014

Martin Luther King Jr.

Illustration for "Taking Up the Cross" by Eric Sterbenk

You can read part one on his blog:

http://ericsterbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/taking-up-the-cross/

Friday, January 17, 2014

Drawing Game

I find that coming up with ideas of things to draw isn't always easy. Making time to draw isn't always easy either, especially when taking care of kids. This idea combines fun drawing time and fun kid time.

I wrote a bunch of adjectives and nouns on little slips of paper and put the adjectives in one bag and the nouns in another. The adjectives were things like curvy, wide, tangled, small, large, etc, and the nouns were things that could be incorporated into a creature like head, eyes, fins, tail, articles of clothing, etc. Then we drew random combinations of these words to get ideas for our drawings. We also added a third bag to the mix with random objects in it that could be included (skateboard, backpack, piece of toast...)

This is what my daughter and I came up with. My words are below my drawing. Her words were: scraggly mustache, only one eyebrow, green hooves, noodles, roller skates, and clothing.