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Great work everyone! It was a lot of fun. Here are some of my sketches:











--Bill
http://billsart.blogspot.com
http://liamrobinson.com

Wow gary! Pure masterpieces in your sketch book! Wish I was on your level...yeah, in my dreams!
Wonderful and inspiring, to say the least. Must have been amazing to get on board on the square-rigger, so many great details to sketch.

Thanks for sharing!

Wow, I love seeing everyones work. So much to inspire.

Here are a few of my favorite sketches I created at the Sketch Crawl. Sorry if the pictures are two big. I just hot linked them from my site.

All of them as well as photos from the event can be seen on my blog. LINK: http://atomicbearpress.com/2008/03/30/s ... l-3-29-08/

wow!!!
Jay Shuster rocks!

Gary: I love your details!

liamlightyear: very funny attitudes!!!

Enrico: ....che te lo dico a fare...Great Jobs!!!!!!

Wow!!! I must say the SF group did some wonderful work. It must have been a lot of fun to have so many participants.

John - Love your people sketches and super job on the boats!

Enrico - Great job on the wc of the tugboat. Nice group of bikeriders too.

Marc - Impressive sketches! Love the view above the city with the palm.

Seeker - Nice sketching. Great job on both boats, but the tug is my fav.

Bob - Nice work on your seated people. Were they part of the group?

Kate - Great job on the painting of the rocks with the fog. I like the palms too.

Danny - Fun sketches! I like how you focused on that anchor chain. Good job!

BiscuitMaker - Nice water scenes, especially the pier! Good job on the sketches of the people. I really like the one of the artist sketching.

James - Great colllection...so many wonderful sketches. Great job on all the architectural elements.

Splinesmith - Great job on all those people. Love the colored sketch of Ghiradelli Square and the pier.

Nino de Plan Blanco - Good sketches. Nice action on the people.

Jay - Super sketch of the boat, the market, and that wonderful fire escape!

Gary - Great sketches of your day. Love the straphangers and the turtle. Nice work on all the rigging on the ship, and the sketches on the boats.

Liamlightyear - Great fun sketches! Love the artist, the woman shopping, and the guitar player.

Atomic Bear - Nice sketches. I like the first one (a fellow crawler?)!

Saturday was my first crawl- Had an amazing time! Thanks to Enrico for posting those picts for me.. I will learn the technicalese soon.

I managed to get a blog up and running just yesterday.. Please visit at:

http://shublog.wordpress.com/

Fantastic work every-body! truly Inspiring!

total awesomeness. It was really nice meeting everyone and seeing the work. I got pretty worn out by the end of the day and some mild sunburn too, it was worth it.

Lazy post - just pix for now - but I am amazed by the sheer volume of wonderful work! It was a great group, I'm sure we'll have even more fun when the weather warms up



First of the day, an early tourist on the pier.



Second, from the Art Institute's quad.



A fellow crawler



Some plants near the park. Prolly my favourite of the day.



Another crawler in the square.



Ghiradelli by Gaslamp.



Some tourists.



more tourists.



and another.



plants again!



waving the surrender flag...

HA! The 'fellow crawler' sketch (by frosti) looks like it could be me.. ! I recognize that GI Joe/ longshoreman's beard anywhere! Nice!

hahahaahh shipwreck it is sir yoooo joe

John D - Nice treatment of your subjects! they feel very warm, even with the cool tones on your people.

Enrico - 60!! That's almost as many as we had at the Sausalito crawl last year. Beautiful tones on that ship. I nearly drew that same tree, but decided I couldn't do it justice - you did nicely! Have you been thinking about bikes a lot?

Marc_Taro - I love your organic line - no one will accuse you of stiff inks!

Seeker - I love the bold colors on your ship paintings!

Blob - very nice character studies. I can feel some personality coming through, despite the sedentary poses.

LemoniKate - wow! Love those waves breaking on the shore.

Danny - love the painting of the tower - you captured the sunlight nicely.

Biscuit Maker - I love your stylized ladies, and such a wonderful sense of color!

martha - thank you for posting photos! you really captured the energy of the day.

jamesO3 - your drawings have incredible energy! I particularly like how you built up tone with your markers, and the liveliness of your strokes.

ptk2008 - so prolific! I like your treatment of people, and how well you simplified the landscapes.

splinesmith - nice work! I like your people best, they have so much personality.

nino de pan blanco - I love lucky 13! You really captured some unique subjects.

jay shuster - I remember seeing your book at the end, wonderful work! You have an extremely graphic style and a great sense of perspective, which makes for very strong work.

gary - I also remember seeing this one. Fantastic eye for detail! You make me wish I'd entered the ships.

liamlightyear - wonderful stylization! very strong shapes and tones. I particularly like your take on the airplane.

AtomicBear - very nice sketches! I love the complementary color approach you took.

patsanimation - you have a very strong sense of character in each of your drawings, and very solid rendering skills. Great stuff!

jshu - could be...

Thanks for all the comments !

john D: Yeah, I see what you mean with the " blessures dans les arbres" hehe. My best experience of this was in the pere lachaise's cemetery... I remember some incredible trees growing around tombs and taking weird shapes !

Joan: I guess they were crawler since they were drawing though I didnt saw them at the end...

Only a few sketches from me this time:








Great job everybody! I can't wait for the next Sketchcrawl.


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Okay, here are my contributions; finally got around to scanning them (!). Hopefully these'll show up okay, if not, they're up here: http://idiotink.blogspot.com/

First is Aquatic Park:


and then there's good ol' Alcatraz:



That's all I have this time; my goal for the next SketchCrawl is to really produce! We'll see how that goes...

To everyone -- beautiful work!


Enrico -- As always, I find your work here just breathtakingly alive! Bravo!

marc_taro -- Gorgeous lines. Very immediate and purposeful!

LemoniKate -- You have a wonderful sense of color, I envy you!

Ronnie -- Good grief, do you ever not do amazing work? As ever, your work is a huge inspiration to me (I'm the one who ambushed you at my table at WonderCon and thanked you for your blog -- and I thank you again!).

jamesO3 -- I love your chunky blacks!

ptk2008 -- So fluid and natural! And so prolific!

Jay Shuster -- Incredible. Just incredible.

Gary -- As usual, your life drawings are great.

liamlightyear -- What lively, fun work you're doing here!

Can't wait for the next SketchCrawl, and for a better opportunity to meet you all there.


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John D:

What pens/colors did you use for your sketches with the sepia and blue? I see that you both drew and colored with the same sepia/brown color.
By the way, I love your avatar! Self portrait? Brilliant!