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SKETCHBOOK 59 – A NEW SQUIRREL AND A PROFILE

By Marilyn Armstrong on 04/25/2022 • ( 11 )

Among the things I have struggled with — other than squirrels — are people. I haven’t gotten people right yet. My main problem seems to be drawing an adult face rather than a child. My faces always appear to be faces of children. For an adult, the eyes are too big and faces too short.

I have a particular problem making eyes the right size. The profile I did of Garry on Saturday night is as close to an adult face as I’ve gotten. It’s just a black on white sketch and it’s very simple, but it looks more like Garry than anything else I’ve done.

I decided to skip color. Getting people the right color is always difficult

This little furry muff is a better color — and he looks furry

I played with color and hue on Photoshop. The original is the wrong color red-brown. This is far from perfect, but it’s closer. I don’t know what the right color IS. I have around 500 pencils in various sets. Surely one ✏ pencil should be labeled Squirrel Red!

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Categories: #Sketchbook, #Squirrel, Anecdote, Arts, Drawings, Portrait

Tags: #Sketchbook, #Squirrel, Arts, Drawings, Marilyn Armstrong, portraits, profile

11 replies

247paulgray
04/25/2022 • 15:41

Cute!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  04/25/2022 • 19:59
  
  Thanks. I’m working on it.
  
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Sadje
04/25/2022 • 02:32

Getting better with every attempt Marilyn. This does looks like Garry

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  04/25/2022 • 13:01
  
  I keep plugging away — which is what I never did before. I doodled, but I didn’t really WORK at it.
  
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  - Sadje
    04/25/2022 • 13:29
    
    It’s fun not work.
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      04/25/2022 • 14:12
      
      Yes, it is fun. I never really had the time before, either. I was working, I was mothering and wifing and cooking and cleaning and shopping and trying somehow to get everything to fit into a 24 hour day. It never really fit. Something always was left out and in the end, anything that wasn’t necessary got eliminated. It has taken me a long time in retirement to realize I can do other things. Other than making sure bills get paid, my life isn’t scheduled.
      
      We get so acclimated to work and obligations, when we are free of most of those obligations, we keep acting as if we are on a schedule anyway. I think I forgot what being free felt like.
      
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      - Sadje
        04/25/2022 • 15:10
        
        Now with this new hobby, you can have fun and do things that you don’t need to do.
        
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        Marilyn Armstrong
        04/25/2022 • 20:00
        
        Amazing realizing I CAN do whatever I want, within the limits of money and the likelihood of getting caught.
        
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        Sadje
        04/25/2022 • 23:10
        
        Haha! Don’t get caught 😎😱
        
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Carol anne
04/25/2022 • 00:20

Your probably better off skipping color on people! Everything is so PC nowadays. You can’t even draw or be creative without offending someone. So good thinking on your part!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  04/25/2022 • 00:25
  
  I just looked at this and I knew if I tried to do it in color it would be a disaster. I would never get it right. For once, I quit while I was ahead!
  
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