Self Portrait

Here are a few sketches from my sketchbook from a recent trip home to Alabama. The old oak tree Parents back yard Another sketch of the oak tree Luna

Here’s a quick sketch of the beach from memory with no references used, drawn with pencil in my traveler’s sketchbook. When you’re drawing a place, it almost feels like you’re at that place. I probably could have spent more time, but I really just wanted to get the idea on paper as fast as I could.

A drawing of a cardinal

Here’s a shot of Mt. Spurr taken 2025-03-31 from the Glenn Alps trail head overlook. We took my old “boss” David up there for some sightseeing. While we were there, a paraglider landed next to us. She was very nice, answering all of our questions that she’s probably been asked a thousand times from other bystanders. And funnily enough, we actually had a mutual friend in common.

Here’s one from our trip to Seward last weekend. This is on the beach in front of Miller’s Landing. I recorded a YouTube short for it here.

https://youtube.com/shorts/59JW8Kt2giQ?si=ow9JLhk43oR07vkF Hey Everyone Here is a sketch from a photo I took on my phone back in 2021. We must have been on a walk or something on the coastal trail and I decided to take a picture of the barge in the water. I think it may be two vessels - a tugboat and a barge sitting next to each other. Anyway, I used a 0.5mm mechanical pencil with a graphite hardness of ‘B’, blending stump for the clouds and a 3B pencil for the dark spots down in the deadly mud flats below....

Hey everyone, Steve here for another drawing session. If you’re an artist, I’m going to let you in on a little secret - get a camera and keep it handy. It can be the one on your phone or something more advanced. Take a lot of pictures, and try to get a feel for what makes a photo interesting because a lot of that skill also applies to drawing. Over time, your photo library will grow and you’ll have a lot of material to work from - it feels a lot less like cheating when you reference your own photos....