‘Twas the birthday of the Significant Other, so we went to her family’s place.
Beer:
In spite of the glass, it was some Staropramen red. “Granatko” or something. Good stuff. [EDIT: more reviews here. They’re in Czech, but they don’t seem keen. Well, I liked it.]
Bookshelves:
And a baby:
I’m better than I was at drawing babies, but there’s still a way to go.
There was, of course, cake; but I did not get around to drawing that before it was consumed.
Sketched at a friend’s graduation: a guy holding some kind of metal sceptre, on which the Hippocratic Oath was sworn.
There was quite a bit of ceremony, including procession and gratuitous Latin (including the Oath). This is a rough impression of the bench at the front where the worthies sat, done later using some watercolour pencils I was recently given – I am not sure how to use them yet, and have been treating them as, basically, smudgable pencils; I am sure there are more interesting techniques, though. (If you use a watercolour pencil, have you done a drawing or a painting?)
Presented to a guy we sometimes play Terraforming Mars with (name not entered at the time of scanning.)
It was his birthday; and, after we presented this to him, we played Terraforming Mars, and he won handily.
The castle, seen from the other side of the bridge:
A street corner near the bus station:
I have successfully managed to keep to my at-least-weekly posting schedule for a year now (since 5th July 2018). In this time my art skills have improved, although my posting is heavier on sketches than I would like. There is nothing wrong with sketches, but I prefer to think up interesting things to draw, and then draw them. Alas, this takes time; and my available time is far less than it was, and my time management skills not sufficiently improved to compensate. But I shall see if I can shift the balance a bit in the coming year.
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