Mark's man bag

Guys don't carry purses, but dang, we need a place for our 'stuff' too! So I have this nifty 'man bag' that carries my stuff along with my drawing pens and a Moleskine sketch book. I recently added a wad of pencils for just playing around with. The bag goes with me most everywhere... kind of a growth on my shoulder. Pity the fool who tries to separate me and my bag.

Drawing the eye

Okay, a little play on words. You'll find no eyes here!

The exercise is called the Center of Interest and it's part of the coursework I'm doing for the Art Instruction School. The lesson covers how the human eye is drawn into a composition and how in your art you can lure the viewer in.

These are just simple drawings but you can see from the pencils that the eye is drawn to the pencil that contrasts sharpest with the others. In the second drawing, the bottle with the most detail draws the eye.

Doesn't really fit with my desire to be more free flowing with art, but the course has been excellent in teaching me so many fundamentals.