Bar Sketches

I glimpsed two folks in the coffee shop and attempted to sketch them after they were gone.  Who knows who they were, but he definitely had the look of a befuddled old man who spent his days elbow deep in chalk dust.

The same guy who was in the coffee shop a week ago was there again, telling the guy behind the counter that his religon is that “he doesn’t care about anything.”  Confused, the coffee guy kept telling him, “That’s not a religon, that’s a belief-system or an outlook.  It’s not a religon.”

“No, but that’s what I BELIEVE.”

“Yes, but it’s not a religon.”

“No, you don’t understand…”

I often sketch rocks and boulders when I’m warming up to draw. If I’m not in the mood, and my cup of coffee is more interesting at the moment, a couple rocks piled in a field or on the edge of a pond seem to loosen me up and get me in the mood to draw. Finding new ways to stack them and organize them ends up being kind of interesting too.

(After I drew these, I did a whole slew of sketches, which WordPress will automatically post over the next few days while I’m doing Halloween-sorta things. Maybe I’ll get lucky and get some costume sketches done in the meantime.)

A thirty-second doodle of a local bartender that had to be stopped suddenly when she yelled, “Aaron, you sure as hell better not be drawing me over there or I’m getting your tab right now!”

That was the end of that.

This one was an accident.  I was attempting to draw someone with their head tilted upward at an angle…instead I ended up with a head shape that was squashed and looked like a child’s.  So I gave up and drew a child instead, adding in lunch on a stick for when she’s done fishing, train-hopping, or whatever she’s up to.

Probably would have been a good sketch to add a fishing pond to.

I’m not sure, but I think I like it better pre-Photoshopped, before I blurred the shade-lines.

A pencil sketch of a favorite bartender done at the Blarneystone a few years ago. 

(He doesn’t have a sailor’s anchor on his arm, but whatever.)