A Pencil Sketch

Recently, I had this inclination to try sketching. A different lifetime ago, I experimented, and did some portrait drawing. Some of them turned out reasonably well. Maybe I will be inspired to do some portrait sketches again later. We shall see.

Meanwhile, this is a pencil sketch I did recently. I saw this black and white image on the internet and it looks like something I could do a sketch of. And, here it is.

It turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated. As you can see from the finished sketch, the scene didn’t quite show up. It appeared to be a mass of greys and blacks. One wouldn’t be able to quite figure out what that was.

I sketched this from the image on my phone. So, a lot of the details were minute and not very clear. I just realised this when I was doing this post. Anyway, I don’t want to change it. But I will remember, or try to enlarge all photos for my future projects.

So, not very successful this time. But, it’s a way of building up my interest to do more sketches – maybe.

The advantage of pencil sketching is that the tools are quite simple and straightforward. A pencil, paper, eraser and a pencil sharpener.

A first, rough sketch to highlight where everything is.

The second sketch

The final product

The original photo from the web

“A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.” - Joseph Addison

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