jdb @jdb@octodon.social

Started to rain before I could finish today's sketch.

#DailySketchChallenge #mastoart #pencil

https://octodon.social/media/SUaA_eCXvUcGu5Q9dQE

Ignoring today's theme, but trying to get back in the swing of the #dailysketchchallenge Any resemblance between this and the kid drawing I posted earlier?

I draw myself a lot. I don't think I'm terribly vain - it's just the face I have available for practice.

#sketch #drawing #art #mastoart #portrait

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Spent the weekend working on a portrait of my birthday girl (instead of the daily sketch challenge). Decent likeness, but I get stuck on the hair every time.

#wip #pastel #drawing #art

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I had fun playing with this webapp yesterday: gpsheatmaps.com

Here are my local 2017 runs overlayed. https://octodon.social/media/Az-3d7AO5N-loEts6jE

I thought I'd chosen a 6-mile loop. Walking the last mile home.

#running
https://octodon.social/media/R3GSC7pbRvfiKtqNzYY

@Curator If you really stretch your imagination, you can see the centaur in my route this morning!

https://octodon.social/media/n-TV1ZXckj6tPh6JWFU

This sketchy post is brought to you by the #DailySketchChallenge topic 'Proportions'. Everything I thought I understood about portrait proportions has been entirely screwed up by this beard. This self portrait looks very little like me.

#art #mastoart #drawing #sketch #portrait

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Beautiful evening and quicker tunes helped the pace.

#running #exercise #fitbit

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I kind of couldn't stand that I had three pencil sketches in the same book for #DailySketchChallenge and then threw out pen in my meeting notebook. So I went back at lunch...

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Whew. Tried the #DailySketchChallenge there of the day: Wall. These are supposed to be the glass walls of some of the campus green houses. Need to go back and try this with watercolors.

#sketch #mastoart

https://octodon.social/media/aSEzABYXpSCL-JtCMZo

The main result seems to be sweat. And exhaustion.

#running #exercise

https://octodon.social/media/Xx6Ac3YLsgunTwBOboE

Today's #DailySketchChallenge has a theme: On the Road. I sort of went with it.

#art #sketch #mastoart
https://octodon.social/media/6s1lGqEn7Li5sLM8noQ

First of May, first stab at the #DailySketchChallenge. This is my library. https://octodon.social/media/KvwOuoFiftcdndra_fU

Recovering.

Breathing hard.

#running

My library isn't getting along with the weather this week.

We've worked on a few old German wire bindings over the years and I've always had trouble envisioning the original binding process. I have taken a deep dive on it this evening thanks to this starting point: http://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2011/05/wire-stapled-bindings-drahtheftung.html?m=1

I love closing those knowledge gaps!

#libraries #conservation #bookbinding

#sketch from lunch today. Too rainy to walk. #art

Stats not shown:

Temp: 90°
Highest heart rate in a year,
Idiocy level: 11
Threat level: midnight

Doing a little #urbansketching on campus yesterday. These are the Park Shops at NC State.

#art #sketch