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I went to the Walk for Hope in Long Beach, put together by many very hard working volunteers for Be the Cause over the weekend. Mostly I read quotes that had been beautifully illustrated and setup all along the route, walked and talked, but

The theme for the drawing club this week was Arabian Nights. Three hours of focused drawings with an amazing model. What more could I ask for? He’s so good at playing rogues. I’ve drawn him as a gangster several times. I used pencils on a number of these as well as ink and watercolor. I’m trying to loosen up the proportions and expressions, hoping to capture that much more. As always, criticisms and suggestions are more than welcome and appreciated! See some of my fellow artists’ work from this session here.

Went over to Bob Kato’s Drawing Club. Now that I’m done with my work project, I’m taking time to focus on my own. I really have to keep up with the drawing, so I went to the Drawing Club class. I always loved Bob’s class at Disney, and now that I have time I can make it to these sessions. So here’s a batch from my first 3 hr session at the club. Some experimentation in terms of size and style. That first one is the last one I drew and the largest of the session. It took about half an hour at a relaxed pace, and was painted straight watercolors, with no pencils (which is how I paint most of my stuff). I used green, gold and black ink on a few and pencils first on two sketches. I think the green one is the most successful of the more exaggerated ones. This was a really fun session. Check out some of the other artist’s work here.