Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Quick sketching-

Here are some of my latest gesture sketches made from the café terrace as tourists & locals mill around.

They're all 10 second quickies. I'm looking to capture gesture, expression & attitude through body shapes, posture & clothing. If I'm lucky sometimes I manage to capture character & that's when they're most successful I think, that's when the drawings have some life.





18 comments:

  1. mister jones !! how the f?§@# are you?

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  2. these are great and I'm lovin the dogs.

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  3. Nice to meet you Matt,..Is there where you live? in Nice? Now i´m so jealous!...I like your sketches so much!:D

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  4. wow - I love how you squeeze so many sketches onto on sheet! Great study

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  5. Hey some comments disappeared-wasn't me! Blogger messing up. . .

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  6. It is easier to take their pictures with a digital camera.

    Really lovely drawings.

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  7. The crowd that surrounds the pushchair is reminsicent of a caravaggio composition. The figures enveloping the object.
    I also love the ambiguous drawing of the mother yanking her child in the air or is he leaping with joy? The pucci inspired prints seem to be all the range in your 'endz'

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  8. Lazy but sweet these drawings.

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  9. Mine just got lost...I believe you are censoring critical comments.

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  10. ....Funny. As I sent you a new comment, an old one from me appeared!!!!

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  11. What a bloody hell's going on?...Every time I post a comment a new, different one appears in the column..It is almost funny!

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  12. hey

    i am gonna send the t-shirt this week. sorry for delay.

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  13. Super cool studies Matt. This blog is truly out of this world. I really dig all the stuff you're crankin on here.

    Peace,
    Joe y Elio

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  14. Anonymous9:05 am

    perfect!

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  15. Love these observational beauties! Really nice feel and attention given to each character.

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  16. Merci tout le monde!

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