3 male readers of Bujold's books

 Pencil on Bee paper.

2 women, Bujold readers

I switched to pencil for members of the audience.

On Bee Sketch paper.

3 heads

I went to a talk by an artist (drawn here) who had written and illustrated a graphic novel about a cat named Loki (this cat).

The large head is of an audience member.

Pencil in the Handbook journal.

the audience

Pen and ink in a Handbook journal

cafe people

Pen in two different sketchbooks, two different days.

smudgy people

Last November I was in this Boston coffee shop. Another sketch found in the traveling sketchbook.

I loved the lineup of people and had time to draw all of them while my companions had snacks.

Pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.

smudgy travel sketches

I found a sketchbook I'd been carrying last November with sketches I hadn't posted.

A father and daughter in the airport. The large horizontal curving thing is a pillow piled on their suitcases.

Pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.

bad scan, unusual effect

The other side of the paper has a drawing in colored pencil. That ghost plus the light-struck scan made this quick sketch more interesting.

A thick spiral pad much larger than the scanner never works.

Pencil on 70# paper.

faces and backs

More Arisia people, audience and speakers.

Lots of heads

Practice, practice, practice. Arisia offered lots of that.

pencil in the W&N sketchbook

Listening to Gardner Dozois

For 20 years he was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. He had a lot of great stories to tell, interviewed by Allen Steele.

Pencil in the W&N sketchbook

Arisia 2010 again

Catching the panelists and the audience members was my main goal in attending Arisia this year. The recommended titles and information I picked up for a year of exploring is just a bonus.

All Arisia drawings were with a pencil, sometimes a Prismacolor water soluble one (undampened) in a Winsor & Newton sketchbook. About 90# paper.

Arisia 2010

Just back from three days of listening, talking, and watching people at the science fiction and fantasy convention called Arisia, in Cambridge, Mass.

These people were in discussions of the best films of 2009, the TV show Flash Forward, and who is and is not an "early adopter" of technology (personal electronics, dental/medical advances, and more).

clearing out 2009

These guys were traveling in December.

The bottom one almost has no head in view because that's the way he was sleeping. Simplifies the artist's work!

We had bumpy flights and all drawing was very fast.

Sharpie pen in the journal.

long conversation

This woman stood still and chatted so long, I could capture her and put in the shirt colors, too!

Pants painted later :-)

Fountain pen and w/c in the Reflexion sketchbook.

at life drawing class

Artists across the room, waiting for the starting time.

charcoal pencil on newsprint.

watercolor flow

Drawn super fast and poorly, but I liked how the colors flowed and blended on the slick journal paper, like on hot press.

Pilot Varsity fountain pen ink (water soluble) and w/c.

Panera people

I'm getting better at trying to catch people in a public place. The next challenge is to get control of their proportions.

Tech pen in a sketchbook.

work safe post

In life drawing workshop it's a luxury to draw people who hold still for 20 minutes at a time.

Most of my life drawings are too big to fit on the scanner. This one works.

Pencil on Strathmore drawing paper.

flat heads

When a photo has already turned 3D into a 2D image, copying is relatively easy. The challenge is to produce such subtle detail from a live model.

But photos hold still and offer such a huge range of interesting features.

On Aquabee superdeluxe.