Sketch Parties

When I was in college, my group of friends and I would have drink and draw nights. We'd all hang around the living room and take turns drawing each others' portraits. Sometimes we'd all draw one another at the same time like monkeys picking fleas off of each other. The results were sometimes beautiful and but usually hilarious. I think I was known to do more caricatures of them. With my friends being art majors, they'd sketch quite seriously, with shadows of my nose and under my eyes. I always had a hard time drawing realistically in person. It's from habit of always drawing from flat photos. I think that's why I wanted to participate in this art study that a professor did at my school. He compiled it into a published book called "Drawing by Seeing" by John Torreano. I always had a problem with shadows and contour drawing during my freshmen year classes. I didn't like shading! That's probably why I do more "illustrative" works. It's all about the lines. Pen and ink is my water.