More Live Sketching: Tommyboys Bar & Grill, PA

Last night I found myself heading to the local bar & grill with my brother to take advantage of wing night. Nothing quite like good company, hot wings, cold beer and many cool people to draw. These are the best from the night.

My favorite sketch of the evening.

He looked so utterly sad sitting at the bar.
I had to sketch him.

The little Netsky after many many more layers of oil washes.
(She will be a sales item soon.)

Live Sketching (Tommyboys Bar & Grill)

More practice at the local bar. It was a bit of an "off" night for me (IMO) but I drew through it and did come up with a few that I found favor with. They are rough and lack the finese of earlier attempts at the same bar. The very last session at this bar was best, but I'm not hating these. Of course, by the time I got to the bar people were fairly "happy" and moving about quite a bit. Moving people are always difficult to draw, but drunk moving people...even more difficult.














My favorite sketch of the night.
Something about her just drew me in.

Live Sketching...Before Christmas Eve

The day was spent doing nothing. I forced myself to just sit and do nothing. I have to be honest, it was a most difficult task for me. By 5PM I was going stir crazy and thoughts of sketching people filled my brain. By 6PM I was preparing my little sketching knapsack for adventure. By 7PM I was out the door and headed out to sketch. I put a call out hoping my cousins or friends might be hanging at some bars. I would have dropped by because I need a new place to sketch, but it is a very busy time of year and no one really responded so just the knapsack and I headed for the casino and to the old standby Tommyboy's Bar and Grill.

I had a bit of a breakthrough drawing wise last night. I was able to draw men easier. I don't know why it was so, but it was and I ran with it. I normally shy away from drawing men because women just come easier. Perhaps its because I can relate to the body structure of a woman better and it just comes natural. I don't know all I know is I loved that so many men were sporting facial hair. It was really fun to capture on paper with the Prismacolor pencil.

Here are the best drawings from last night.