[edit added November 06: If you are a fan of the duo that was playing the night I described in my original post and have arrived here via google search for the group, you don’t need to leave any more rude and personally insulting comments like several others have done as I will delete them. Since people still seem to be getting here via Google search for the band’s name even though I’d already removed it at their manager’s request, I’m also going to remove my previous comments about the duo in my post, who were mostly enjoyable to listen to, especially the violin player. Please have some manners, folks!]
Tonight Michael and I went to Jupiter, a pub and pizza place near UC Berkeley Campus with a large outdoor courtyard and live music most nights. I selected it because I hadn’t gotten in any drawing today and knew it would be fun to sketch there. Usually it’s hard to get a seat because there’s no hostess. You have to stand around like sharks waiting for someone to leave but tonight we lucked out and got a table right away. These folks above were in the front row, listening to a folk duo. The pizza and Caesar salads were fabulous.
Quick sketch of one of the musicians
(she was much prettier than my drawing)
These were drawn with Micron pigma in my small Moleskine sketchbook. I started drawing the violinist when we sat down but they took a break after a minute. So I switched to drawing the courtyard and entrance to another cafe until the duo started playing again. I rushed a bit on both, since drawing time was limited (between courses and before a movie) and regretted having to do so, since I found so much to explore there.
I think I discovered something interesting about converting 3-D to 2-D tonight. For the first time I think I kind of got how to see a very complicated scene as flat, interlocking shapes (2-D) instead of layers of things in front and behind each other (3-D). I want to explore this idea more because I think it MIGHT be a key to understanding and drawing complex scenes.
Jana Bouc, Artist 