Deliberate Sketching

The Fresno Zoom sketching group has many terrific models. One of my favorites is a young art student, Bobby Brown. It delights me when Zoom opens up, and I see him on my screen. There is something about his quiet demeanor and the emotion he projects that I find captivating. It makes me work hard to get it on paper.

Last night, all the artists in the Zoom group produced strong beautiful pieces that conveyed a message about the subject. Whenever that happens, it is because the model gives us something worthwhile to say with our art.

I was on Zoom with six friends from our critique group. I began to sketch one of them as she was focused on by the computer software. Soon another friend began to speak and the software shifted its focus to her. I continued sketching, using the second friend as inspiration, but the focus shifted again. And so it went until our session was over and I had this amalgam sketch of all six friends.