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Drawing the Drawers

[Guest post by Thomas Kerr at St. John’s University, New York, NY] Teaching is a privilege. To be in the position to guide, facilitate and instruct students as to the hows and whys of drawing the world around them has been a highlight in my life for nearly 35 years. For all of those years I’ve been tasked to teach the drawing of the anatomy and the figure. Though the subject is outside the canon of urban sketching, the drawing of students at work on developing their skills is not. The routine often involves demonstrations, followed by a warm-up of quick gesture poses and then longer format poses to follow. Usually, while students are working at the gestures, I’ll take attendance and occasionally jot down a quick sketch of one or two of the students at work. Having drawn them in ink in my sketchpad, usually in less than 10 minutes, I'll take them home and add watercolor to finish them, although sometimes I'll add color on location.

Over the years, I’ve culled a number of what I call drawings of the drawers and looking through my pads, realized I had amassed quite a collection. I always share the image with the student, sending by e-mail, so they can print it out or share on social media. Some of these kids have become terrific at drawing and I’m glad that I may have had a small part in that. These sketches resonate for me—fondly—as memories given form. Something realized by many an urban sketcher and possibly why sketching is enjoying such a broad appeal these days.

At the top: A trio of sketchers in the studio. Drawing boards and easels at the ready.

 

Sketching on location at the Met in NYC. This young lady draws cross-legged, recording a sculpture in the Beaux-Arts sculpture garden.

Sometimes, I just get it down quickly, this one is drawn in ink directly, leveraging my favorite drawing tool, the Pentel brush pen.

There are a number of large windows to the back of the studio, in this sketch you can see one with a view of Queens in the distance.

Standing while doing a studio drawing is preferred, but sometimes, students like to sit.

Appropriately dressed for Anatomy class, this young lady covers a crown of very red hair, yet it offsets the sketch nicely in terms of color.

Pencil on this one…

This young lady worked with a filtration mask while drawing. I’m not sure how she tolerated it, but it added something of an enigmatic quality to her presence in this drawing.

Kind of an unusual choice of media for a sketch in this one. Done in oil on board and made directly, the biggest drawback was the drying time of the image. 

Finally, two students at work, preparing drawings and focused on their tastes. The stool in the foreground made a convenient place to tack in my name and date.

Thomas Kerr is a professional illustrator at work in the New York area for 30 years. He has been published widely in the United States new media with his editorial illustration featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, amongst many others. He is a tenured professor at St. John’s University, teaching Illustration. See more of his work on his website.

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