Post It Sketches - 2

A few notes learned from this batch of post it sketches.

- drawing with an inkball pen really sucks (the Christmas tree). Also, I didn't really figure out how to do the needles until towards the bottom.

- accuracy/realism and speed are necessarily exclusive to one another. With the pine needles, once I figured out the way they grew, it was actually faster to sketch them more realistically.

- it's unforgivable to screw up someone's eyes in a sketch. The key for me turns out to be to draw the entire eyeball first, then draw the skin, eyelids, brows around it. Compare the top left eyeball to the bottom right (self portrait)... I quickly realized that it's the actual ball of the eye that defines the top and bottom lids. Of course, having a live model helps. All the eyes except the bottom right one were done without a reference.