Former (since a month ago) career concept illustrator, sharing watercolor, daily sketches and odd ideas. Maker of human drawn images. The only AI I use is Average Intelligence. Tovaangar in the USA. 12.3 miles southeast of where Wallace Wood took his last breath. 8.5 Miles Northwest of where Elliot Smith was last alive.
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Last Notes npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is direct sketching but not #urbansketching since it’s lacking the urban, but more than compensates with insects. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob More sketching that isn’t #urbansketching, from a far corner of the continent. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Not #urbansketching today. Instead, it’s some remote part of the continent. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A caught moment #urbansketching from midday at the coffee shop today. A different crowd than morning, more ebullient. People telling their stories out loud. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob My figure sketches from a costume fashion session only a block from home today. #urbansketching from life, and a great group plus pastries from local bakery. #bythehandofbob npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's more envelope #urbansketching because I"m actually mailing a lot recently, so am going outside at big coffee and sketching the nature (w buildings). npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob I'm doing some #urbansketching on envelopes a bunch in last few days because I'm going to mail out reminders I have a class upcoming in a week. This is from today at big coffee. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching adjacent from last night. It's urban here, it's sketching, it's done from direct observation... At the local animation club. Dressed as royalty or something. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's #urbansketching on an envelope that I will later today address with note inside to cousin overseas. This way I can show the delights of my town: the parking lot, the açaí bowl place across the parking lot next to the cardio-boxing, and the tree.. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is my #urbansketching from last nights 2x a month costumed sketch group. I don't know what IP was being referenced, maybe something kids would know. But a fabulous costume. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Day 2 of my current envelope-drawing habit of #urbansketching. This is from a few minutes ago at the cool local coffee shop. It has so much more texture, and age than the mega corp industrial coffee place. (3 envelopes) npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob THis is today's supply of my #urbansketching at mega-coffee. The drawing on the envelope on left lacks the color of the real experience. The sitter's mohawk is a bright fuchsia. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Yesterday's #urbansketching from the local cafe hang. Often, I know some of the people. The guy on left postcard was talking to someone I know. The guy in hoodie is a comics artist I talk to. All brought together by coffee. #firstfridayartwalk npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob I had to travel to the lower right corner of the continental shape of the country. The humid atmosphere takes me aback when drawing there. So, I went with it and made these ghostly #urbansketching in the airport yesterday. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching from this morning. I like the one on the left because I don't remember capturing a pose like this before. Anticipation. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching from yesterday. The alignment of the scene is crazy accident. I started on the right postcard and drew right to left. An on the other worked left to right. Then I realized it aligned when I got home. I shoulda played the lottery. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching from a sketchgroup last night with a Jedi theme (thus the costume). Ink on xuan paper, kind of hard to draw on it cause of absorbency. #FirstFridayArtWalk npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is a partly-local sports figure in #watercolor. Distortion intentional. Blue because why not?#FirstFridayArtWalk #bythehandofbob npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A sketch page (ink on Xuan paper) from a few months ago of Sidhu Moose Wala. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Some #urbansketching from today at mega coffee. Sunday mid morning can be pretty busy in this town. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching from today where it feels like a battle against the absorbent paper. By the time I fill up the page, I want to take a nap. The sketch is the local coffee shop. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob it’s mental distortion. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's some distorted #postcards drawn today. Not exactly #urbansketching, but it's my local urban area. Life is but a dream. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching from yesterday at one of the cooler indy coffee shops, but a long walk from home. Very crowded. Drawn in a large super thirsty accordion book. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob I got my coffee today from the cozy independent coffee shop today, and drew this #urbansketching in accordion sketchbook. Lotsa people hanging out on a monday during work hours. Sketch is loose to suit the very absorbent paper. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Sketches from my experimental #sketchbook. Just drew the top one this morning. Maybe since it's blue, it could be a teacup design as delftware. #firstfridayartwalk. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This #urbansketching from yesterday on postcard. Over time (it took 50 years), I get braver about scrubbing a dry brush around. I used to fear ruining the brush, but now I have more brushes than I may ever need. The brush collection will outlast me. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is today's haul of #urbansketching. People dislike being drawn, I acknowledge it. But, I try to hurry, npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This #urbansketching of today looks a lot like one a few days ago. It's drawing habit at this point-- go out, drink a coffee, draw a little. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Just a bit of #urbansketching today. I gave the other one away to the person in the sketch. Yep, if you find me, you can have one free-- not that it's a value or anything. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is this morning's haul of #urbansketching. Today, it's new paper. New paper makes you think you're learning all over again. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is a page of #watercolor squares mostly for the purpose of searching for an effect i like, and then I included some studies of a victorian painter I just learned about. #watercolour npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's a postcard #urbansketching from yesterday. It's a lot easier when people don't know you're drawing. It skips that unpleasant "are you looking at me" business. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's #urbansketching from the coffee shop yesterday. It's 2026 and we're soon to be taken over by robot overlords, but the coffee shop seems the same. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This #urbansketching is from our time being stranded earlier today at an airport out east. Eventually the planes moved again. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is me workshopping a gift for a niece (lives in this building, and is not on mastodon). Kinda roughly made sketch I believe. #waterColor npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A daily practice makes things look alike. You wouldn't know it, but this is new #urbansketching on envelopes from today, minutes ago. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This in #urbansketching my way, on envelopes. It's a daily thing for me. Each day looks a little different, but the viewer might not see that. Ink on envelope npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is a rough layout of figure drawings of mine that will be in my advert for an upcoming class in figure sketching w fashion. This will be what the class will be covering. Too boring? npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's a couple of #urbansketching, hot off the café table at the local coffee place. I walked home and still have a little coffee left. #inkvember is an ink month where you can just draw what you want. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Sketch of Wu Tang Clan on that super delicate rice paper (dissolves if you pause too long). Ink and brush. #Inkvember インク画（インクが） npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob On the way back from the beach the other day, I pulled off the road and drew this on the back trunk of the car. It's burn-scarred hills in fog. #urbansketching Ink in october, but not #inktober npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Mon dieu, wow npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's a little more sketching from the coast yesterday. I'm drawn to sketching people, so if you look closely at the second one, there are very small people on the cliff. #urbansketching npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob I went to see the ocean today for a break. It's still #urbansketching as you can see from the streetlight. In the above sketch, someone walked across my field of vision just as I was starting, so here they are in a sketch. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob I don't want to bore you with yet another Youtube. But if this is a thing you like, or can stand, then here it is: npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob These are some postcards/ #urbansketching from yesterday at the coffee shop. Its a good place on Saturdays. Ink, but not #inktober. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here's a little more #urbansketching from my vacation almost 2 weeks ago, the London part. Lovely scenes all around. Would have stayed longer if I could afford it. not #inktober npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is more vacation Not #urbansketching from Wales when I was there 10 days ago. Probably could be called #ruralsketching. Beautiful place with canals and boats. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A little more plein air #ruralsketching, related to #urbansketching but more trees and less buildings and people. Directly from the source ( looking) npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Sketches from yesterday. I’d say #urbansketching, but it’s not urban. Nobody seems to follow #ruralsketching. They are postcards, and a few are written on the back already. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is my small watercolor painting of DEEP PURPLE, the band that did Smoke On the Water. I enjoy imagining it's 1970 exactly. #bythehandofbob official artwork. #watercolor, #watercolour #smallart npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob My first time posting this to MSTDN. Not sure if anyone would be interested. Have been filming just fast rough sketching on my sketch pad. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ce7aCTUfZiw #Tutorial npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A sketch in my gigantic #sketchbook from last night. Not #urbansketching, but a sketch done in a place that is urban. She posed like this for a few minutes. It was tiring to hold. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob In 2016 I did an almost daily series of the movement that changed this country. Was trying to explain to a relative/journalist that it wasn't innocent victims being swept up. They were in on it. #bythehandofbob #watercolor npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This is #urbansketching from today on back of envelopes, as #mailart. I'll be mailing these out to some people and then another sketch will be inside. Would these sketches bother you if you received? #bythehandofbob npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This morning's haul of #urbansketching. This is what I captured in the net today. I like the cropping of the one on the left. That seems cool. #bythehandofbob #mailart npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This could be #urbansketching. From a moment ago-- at big mega corp industrial coffee co. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob This seems to qualify as #urbansketching. It's an urban area, and it's sketches. Drawn at the corporate coffee place... again. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob It's a sketch I made yesterday in my #sketchbook. Purple pen, because color is pretty. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A few attempts at #urbansketching from yesterday. Drawn at the corporate mega coffee place. I seem to have drawn 3 of them from the exact same spot. Ink and brush on postcards. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Here are 2 more postcards #urbansketching from my vacation last week. It's New England coastal US. There's some old architecture and a carnival was being set up. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob An accordion book (a few pages) #urbansketching at the airport a week ago. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A brief postcard sketch from today #urbansketching npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A today-sketch of a rock just off the shore in the ocean. Ink. Super hot and windy ( my excuses) npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob I haven't counted. But B is making surprising comeback. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Thank you! npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A or B? Which would be your pick? Some very old drawings. I would do the MSTDN survey, but they don't allow images, still. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A drawing from yesterday and friday. In my #sketchbook. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob An #urbansketching from just last minute. It's saturday, and I get to the coffee shop at least on saturdays. Usual crowd, maybe lighter due to vacations. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob #sketchbook page from yesterday. Cowboy with MC Escher jaw. I dunno. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob A page from my #sketchbook yesterday. Unrelated to that: Kathe Kollwitz was born yesterday or so, but many years before. She lived till the end of WW2, but was only 14 years younger than Van Gogh. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob #WaterColor Wednesday. This is from 10 months ago-- my guitar island. It was entered in a poster contest by a friend. Did not win. npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob Some of the last use of pencil in hollywood concept art.. Mine from just a few years ago, actually. #throwbackthursday npub1y2yrngt8nld0f0lpfpzh24e9qeylfkqn0evsum9wgqqvtk0c776sd9ys8l bythehandofbob An early rough draft of maybe a couple of people that used to be in the pink floyd band. Taking a lyric too literally. #penciltober2025
