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Sketches at Hickory Tavern

Rich — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:19:18 +0000

Here’s some sketches I drew at this evening’s Sketch Charlotte meetup at Hickory Tavern.

The Union County Library Con

Rich — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:25:45 +0000

Yesterday I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest at the Union County Library Mini-Con in Indian Trail, NC. This is the second year that John Tompkins of the Union County Library has organized such an event and my first time attending. Among some of my friends from Sketch Charlotte were other local cartoonists like Dave McDonald and Dennis The Menace cartoonist Marcus Hamilton.

I was frankly a little unsure at first why I had been invited to attend. My creepy, 9/11 comic was not something that I could show to kids so I expected to be sitting there doing nothing for 6 hours. I couldn’t have been more wrong. From the moment the convention started I had a line of kids at my table waiting for me to draw them sketches of whatever they wanted. At one point I had to tell them to wait for me while I went into the back room and ate lunch. There was literally no break until I left at 5:30. I was probably busier that afternoon than I was the whole 3 days at HeroesCon.

The kids were all great and really receptive and interested in seeing me draw. I asked just about each one if they read comic books and of course the answer was almost always no. But they knew characters like Iron Man and Spider-man from the movies and cartoons so that’s what they wanted drawings of. The cool thing was that there were a couple of kids that were interested in the aspect of drawing themselves and said they liked to draw at home. So hopefully it was encouraging and inspiring to them to see a roomful of artists doing this.

I took photos of most but not all of my sketches with my iPhone and already posted a number of them as I was doing them but here’s the rest, a little cleaned up.

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Dr. Sketchy’s

Rich — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:05:34 +0000

These are some of the better sketches I did this week when I attended the monthly Dr. Sketchy’s figure drawing group at Story Slam Charlotte. For those of you that don’t know, Dr. Sketchy’s is an organization started by illustrator Molly Crabapple where artists get together to draw models in a lively, burlesque-style atmosphere. The idea started in New York and has been franchised in other cities. Charlotte got it’s own Dr. Sketchy’s just recently and I attended it for the first time this month.

I think it’s still finding its legs a bit. There were some things I didn’t like about it (the lighting was a bit flat and the model wore not only a kimono but a kimono on top of a kimono for the first dozen or so poses which makes it hard to really draw the figure) but I definitely plan to continue going and hope more artists and models find out about it so it can keep itself going.

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Some sketches of Showmars Patrons

Rich — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:28:41 +0000

Here’s some sketches I did at last night’s Sketch Charlotte meetup at a local Showmars.

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Sketch Charlotte Sketching

Rich — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:51:42 +0000

A couple of times a month Sketch Charlotte meets to talk about art, comics, life and occasionally to do some actual sketching. A small group of us got together at Showmar’s on 7th st this past Thursday and above is some sketches I did of some non-sketching Showmar’s patrons.

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