Ann Arbor Weekend

You're looking at a little pastiche of drawings done between more interesting activities during our Ann Arbor weekend. It was art fair weekend, of course, but also a chance to see established and brand-new members of the family.

The buildings here constitute a faithless representation, in that I took liberties with color and screwed up the spacing a little -- not badly. Kinda liking the tree treatment, though.
The humans in each end are a cheat. I snapped a few random crowd shots and then sketched them in later (using only the LED screen on my little Canon Powershot, no less!) as a guide. I liked the guy on the right -- how he looked in reality and how the drawing came out. He'd recognize himself for sure. I mention the photos because when I look at other people's sketches from out in the world, I often think, "How did s/he capture that so quickly?"

Sometimes the answer is, "that artist is more skilled at capturing images quickly." And sometimes the answer is, "s/he used a camera," though that's often not admitted to.

Here's the other thing, though. I like the random crowd shots I took, in terms of their usefulness for other sketch studies. So that might be a tool for you, too, if you have a need to know how bodies look when they're don't think they're being looked at.