Really Quick Sketching at the Otis Fashion Show

...Every year the graduating seniors of the Otis College Fashion Department put on a show...not just a runway, but a fantastic full-on show!  The students work with all kinds of industry mentors...and the show really moves!  I sketch as fast as I can to try to catch something...a feeling or a silhouette, and added most of the color afterwards...



Tumbling and dancing kids start the show...

followed by Eddie Bauer sportswear envisioned for the future...

 Fashion inspired by the wonderfully
vivid colors of architect Luis Barragan...

Dancing through the decades of the 20th century, in partnership with Western Costume...












...and the first time I've seen plus-size fashion featured in the show...Isabel Toledo for Lane Bryant...

Quick-sketching people...

I have a huge respect for fashion illustrators who can sketch a semblance of what they see as the model struts a runway!  I made an attempt at the Otis Student Fashion Show in May, as models moved around on stage.  The students work with industry mentors, and present their work as groupings--fabulous work!  I tried to catch at least a silhouette or 2...here are a few...

More quick sketching, this time at the Southern California Renaissance Faire...
fun to draw people in and out of costume and character!

 Sketching people out and about...having breakfast in La Canada, a family enjoying Descanso Gardens, and visitors to the Santa Monica Pier...

Some Quick Sketches...

Last fall I joined the
Worldwide Sketchcrawl
for the first time...when the
Los Angeles group
met at Descanso Gardens,
a favorite location of mine.
Drawing fellow sketchers
was a lot of fun...

More quick sketches...
some local cafes
and a karaoke bar...

...and my mechanic and assistant

solving the mysteries of a truck
engine while my car waits patiently
(this of course is a sketching
opportunity!)