Pumpkin sketches

The weekends always go by way too fast. Still, I managed some quick sketches. Didn’t quite finish the page I was working on, but I’d rather post a WIP photo here then wait until it’s done. Seasonal studies, yay! ^_^. My mom gave me a pumpkin on a recent visit – it’s larger than the small ones we grew in the garden this year, and barely fit in my still life box/lighting box, but it still made a great object to study. Especially the twisting planes of the stem.

Last night I sketched it for day 3 of the 14 days of drawing challenge (from the Proko Drawing Basics course). This was the second time I used my cardboard box for a still life study, and I’m not sure if it worked. The pumpkin barely fit in the box, so it was mostly in shadow. For the other studies, I took it out of the box to sketch it in more ambient lighting.

This morning, after warming up with ellipse funnel drills, I sketched the smaller pumpkins on the left page from various Pexels photos. Then I started a longer study of this Pexels photo, using Faber-Castell Polychromos. I added little Copic fine liner inked pumpkins along the side, colored quickly with water-based markers.

Then Ricky and I ran an errand to the hardware store and bought grass seed and potting soil. I over-seeded and watered in the lawn, even though it’s probably too late in the season. One day I’ll have a healthy lawn with less crab grass (and maybe more clover). That took longer than I wanted, but we got to feast on delicious slow cooker veggie lasagna for dinner. Then it was re-potting some house plants that were very overdue for new containers – a spider plant from my dad that’s now in a hanging basket, and a small sweet potato vine cutting that had been living in a bell jar of water. Then it was drywall time – so close to being done with the final coat of mud – only the ceiling is left, and we made progress on the north and south ceiling corners tonight.

Now, to find something to sketch for daily drawing 4 of 14, while catching up on Critical Role, C3 E107. My energy is beat, and I’m hoping to balance work and art and home next week. We shall see…

‘Til next time.