Day one hundred and thirty-three: Making these daily sketches has become such a quotidian routine, that when I’m traveling it really shakes things up. Did I bring the digital drawing pad? Will I have internet? Where will I set up my computer? What will I draw? Tonight I made this sketch in a Baltimore hotel room, sitting on a couch in the dark with both the computer and the pad in my lap. A little awkward, but I went with it. I snapped a shot of a street corner on my way home from dinner, and used a very fine black pencil to sketch it. The only remotely straight lines I could muster given my couch-slouch position were vertical, yet this turned out to be just what I needed to create a variety of shades of glass and reflections of light. I was going to call this picture “Baltimore Sidewalk,” but realized this setting could probably be found in just about any big American city.
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