Sketching practice

Hoped to sketch more than I did today but procrastination and other life events got in the way despite promising myself they wouldn't and making a plan to prevent that.

Anyway, when I took mum to the dentist I used the time sat there waiting for her to have her treatment to do some sketching of the environment. Such an interesting place the dentists surgery -tools and instruments, people in and out, places to sit, places to place things, cupboards and drawers, chairs and desk units.

But for all that, the biggest thing in front of me and of the most interest was the dentist himself working on mum. And mum too. Bless her - she doesn't think to take her coat off or her handbag anymore. She just laid back in the chair and allowed the man to go about his business.

Anyway, here's some sketches and a final one that I used tracing paper for the first time to make from the original sketch. I think if I had my time again, I would have taken a couple of photos with my phone too as he moved a lot and quite quickly so each sketch is an amalgam of memory and drawing from life.

Struggled getting his boots right in the initial sketch so did some extra focus sketches on the boots afterwards.

Another view of mum and the dentist. It looks like she is giving me the thumbs up. See her handbag laying on her stomach.

There was a radio too and a chair on wheels. So many details. And all from where I was sat. You could move around and draw all day in this surgery.

I drew the dentists head as well but not as a portrait. More as it seemed to be as a carrying device for his mask, his glasses and his shield. Felt like it abstracted his face, particularly in profile view.

Reworking one of the sketches using a traced image rubbed onto the pad and redrawn. Not perfect but done. Would like to have reworked this from a photographic reference after the sketch.

HB pencil and an A6 Muji plain pad.