Sketchbook: Sleeping Cat

I'm away from home on an extended research trip, so it's going to be a long while 'til I see my cats again. Luckily for me, I managed a quick sketch of one of them asleep before I left. Lo, the cuteness:



(NB: If you click on the image, it will become enormous, too big to view conveniently on a laptop screen, I'm afraid. Before Isaac makes fun of me about this, I want the record to show that this image was scanned with a new piece of equipment, and I haven't figured out how to scale things down appropriately yet. I tried to keep it small, I really did!)

Sketchbook: Snow Day Self-Portrait

So: I've been trying to make time to sketch one drawing a day with my Rapidograph. You'd think that wouldn't be so hard to do, but for me it is. And I'm learning that the technical pen is hardly the supple instrument that a pencil or a brush is, and it's pretty unforgiving when you draw without preliminary pencil sketches. In other words, my already high admiration for the masters of such sketchwork (Crumb, Ware) has only increased as I've made my own feeble attempts.

Nevertheless, Isaac has suggested that I blog some of these sketches (none of which he has seen), and since I'm overdue for a post I thought I'd share a quick self-portrait from yesterday, when I bundled up to venture out in the snow.