Commencing to Draw: Maine Lobster

It seems to me that I have been drawing most of my life to represent ideas, designs, and to communicate but the emphasis has always been more on a practical planning and implementation of an engineering or building project not with an artistic imperative of an object with a view towards any permanence or retention of the artifact. Over the last few months I have been emphasizing artistic Daily Sketching in a drawing notebook. There is much room for improvement in many ways but I hope to build my skills by practice. Drawing notebooks may have many different purposes. They may be private or shared, places for notional ideas or intended as finished artwork in and of themselves. From my perspective, they are chronological journals of ideas, and a venue to build skill, ability, and expertise in observation and representation. If I see something that I like and want to record, I pull out the sketching tools.

One of the first drawings I am willing to share.....

Original Drawing: Summer Lobster - Copyright James E. Martin 2012