City

I haven't posted on Illustration Friday for an eternity. The topic for this week is, "City."
I've loosened up a bit from my architect-days :)

Whisper

Illustration Friday...
...a little sketch for "Whisper"

watercolor & pencil sketch

These little guys have a cameo in the new book I'm working on  :)

A Tree

The topic for Illustration Friday this week is "Tree."  So here's my tree.  Assignment done.  

But this got me thinking...I did this little sketch not long ago when I was listening to someone talk at a meeting (I was paying attention, honest I was).  I was thinking about my book and noodling through a scene --kind of operating on autopilot. When I looked at it later it made me think of how, when I was very young, I was convinced that in order to be a real artist I had to be able to draw most everything from memory. Somehow I got it in to my head that it was kind of "cheating" to draw only what I could actually, physically see.  I wasted a lot of time not drawing. 
Moral of story-- draw (if you are so inclined)...no matter what you think!

You might just surprise yourself.

Work, work, work...

 Mister Frog looks like I often feel.  
 Drawpostdrawpostdrawpostdrawpostdrawpost....like the spin cycle on the washing machine...only maybe not so fast.

copyright 2011 E. R. Stanton- gouache, pen & ink on paper

Lydia