This first (and second) Fashion Sketch is No Good. According to My feeling. The Artist's feeling. But looking at it now ~ as I am posting it here on the Party Entertainment Ideas Inc website ~ it's obvously good enough. It would get a good reception if I drew it inside the Event. But I feel glad that I got it out of my system. Before going in to the Event.

I'm doing these Warm-Ups before going into the Event. Based on random photographs that I found online. So I can get into THE ZONE before going in to the Party.

Success! The 4th picture is Aces. Spot on. And then I tried to speed it up, and the 5th drawing was drawn more simply. It still holds up fine. I feel pleased with Both the 4th and the 5th drawings here. Of the same short pink dress.

To make sure I 'got' it, I then drew a different dress. It came out good.... good enough to delight a Party Guest.... but I felt like it could be better. So I drew it again. Very pleased. I got right into it.

Goodbye rationality. I am in the Zone. No way to explain it. No way to explain how I go from 'drawing well' to 'being an Artist'. But I do that. I dance with the drawing as it develops.

and once I'm there.... once I've caught onto it.... I don't want to stop. I want to draw more and more. This time, I drew 2 men who were dressed similarly, but the clothes fit them so differently that they became different Fashions.

Time's up. It's time to go in to the Party now. I feel so happy to do so. I can't wait to draw people Live.

I do hope my Client already arranged for a good spot for me to Set Up. I do hope the Venue already gave me the Chairs that I requested for the FASHION SKETCH activity. I do hope the Guests are already psyched for the FASHION SKETCH Entertainment. If I have to start negotiating, requesting chairs, politely waiting, encouraging the first guests into party spirit..... I'll lose the edge that I just developed.

It will be faster to get Back into the zone ~ because I just did these Warm Ups, but it's better if I can just hang on to it. A deeper experience. En-vel'oped.

This is another one of the pictures that I posted at facebook several years ago, but I hadn't posted it to my website until now. I remember drawing it. I was sitting at an outdoor Starbucks in Garden City ~ warming up for a job where I agreed to draw the whole Party Scene.

I didn't like this picture at the time. I felt like the bottom-center of the page was taking over the whole scene. So I started a different picture instead. Still, I brought this one home, and added the brighter blue with the ipade to the scene that had only been colored only with color-sticks. Then I liked the picture just fine. Might have done more with it if I had kept drawing on-site. Or maybe not. I was glad that I had gotten the faux-pax out of my system before I drew at the Event.

Oooh, I just noticed a poetry. Drawing on-site means drawing on-sight.

This is one of the pictures that I posted at facebook several years ago, but I hadn't posted it to my website until now. Apparently I was into the same sort of simplifying back then that I've been developing now.

The first picture is an Exaggerated Caricature. The 2nd picture is when I simplified it even more.

I know what I want, and I get in and out of it along my journey. Respecting my path, my abilities and my comfort in doing it and my facility with seeing what to do got better and better over time. But I was interested in Simplified Cartoons with Nice Line Quality all along

just playing around.

i like to draw pictures.