Sketches: People-watching at High Park

Posted on April 17th, 2012 by Sacha Chua

I’m teaching myself how to draw by cheating. For example, while waiting for friends to come join me in seeing the cherry blossoms at High Park, I took pictures. I traced the parts I liked.

I like the way drawing makes photography more fun. Instead of trying to position myself to get a good picture without any distracting elements – or at least to minimize photo-editing – I can take reference pictures of just about any situation. The pictures will come in handy when I need to draw a bicycle, a stroller, kids, whatever.

It’s fun. It may not be as awesome as drawing things from scratch, but I can get the hang of that eventually.

I drew this sketch with ArtRage Studio Pro on my Lenovo X220 tablet. I like the way the paper grain interacts with the pencil tool so that my sketch lines are inexact.

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Steve

Your sketches are really great. Do you draw on a touch screen or on a separate graphic tablet?
Priya.D

Nice and interesting sketch…Keep going!!!
Priya.D

I wonder the last man with the bicycle,what he is doing actually?
http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

Steve: I draw with a stylus on a tablet PC. =) I think it’s more fun than drawing on a separate drawing tablet, and it’s more portable too. Someday I might have the coordination and the confidence to draw with a regular drawing tablet – or even paper!

Priya: He was taking a picture using his cellphone, which was tiny. =)

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