More cafe sketches

Here are a few more drawings from a recent sketching get together at a cafe.

This is Connie, animator and graphic design student! My first drawing of the night. Schnazzy magenta pen, yes?

Partway through the evening this guy came in and played guitar! He asked if we were a study group and promised to play quietly if we were. He seemed quite amused by us and was very chatty, telling us that when you play guitar, people respond to a fat sound more than a thin one. I'm not sure exactly what he meant by that, as I'm not so musically inclined, but he sounds like a man after my own heart!
And to finish things up, a few more of Charlie. He is really fun to draw; you do have to get over natural tendencies to draw him all round, as he actually is made up of plenty of angles and square shapes as well as circles.

Cafe sketches - she does draw things!

So! It's been forever since I updated. That, my blog reading friends, was because I was making a film and finishing school. But now you can expect to see me post far more regularly, because I have all sorts of interesting things to report, from notes on machining armatures and casting puppets, to meeting animators in bars, how to charm bakery owners so you can shoot the live action component of your film in their establishment, and all the weird psychological things that go on in your head when you do stop motion animation. (An area that I think warrants further research.)

Right now, though, you actually get to see me draw things, just like it says on the tin! A few days ago, I got together with some friends from school (including http://brendenoshima.blogspot.com/ and http://charliecorriea.blogspot.com/, but also several other talented blogless buddies) and drew people in a cafe. Ok, so we mostly just drew each other, but it was a good way to stretch the drawing muscles none the less. And since most of the drawings are of people drawing, I like to joke that it must be a statement on the artistic process.
Here are some of the sketches!

This is Jan. She is a pirate. At the time, she was drawing me and said exactly what I put in the speech bubble, as if it was a very major revelation.


Here is Charlie! Winner of the Princess Grace Award and my favourite TA ever. He said my sketch of him was a very "me" sort of drawing, which I think was a nice way of telling me I made him look fat. Apparently being drawn by Chantal adds about ten pounds...

This person was actually a cafe patron and not part of our sketching party! He was reading a really thick book and texting. Apparently he did not mind the crew of sketching animators, because he stayed the whole time we were there.