Coffee Shop Sketch Group

Stuffs from Today

2010-03-02T12:03:00.001-08:00

Coffeeshop Stuff

2010-02-28T10:37:00.000-08:00

Yay I love my new Sketchbook!!

Two women sat next to me today and i couldn't figure out if they were talking about ther children or their husbands...

Trying out something new

2010-02-14T14:25:00.000-08:00

I just came back from Paris. Those are Sketches from all over the journey.

The first two are not drawn in a Moleskine but in a new great Sketchbook i bought at the Virgin Megastore in Paris. It has toned paper, so i can use white pencil too.

Starbucks

2010-02-05T13:55:00.000-08:00

Dump

2010-01-23T05:45:00.000-08:00

Recent Sketches

2010-01-16T06:34:00.000-08:00

The right coffee shop has interesting folk...

2009-11-14T23:33:00.000-08:00

Starbucks from Yersterday

2009-10-18T06:46:00.001-07:00

This one was fun! I ALWAYS draw the heads too big...

A big Welcome to our new members! Keep postin and spread the word!

cheers!

-Antonio

Maybe I need decaf?

2009-10-12T12:33:00.001-07:00

Im going to stop drinking caffeinated so I can finish drawings.

Recent Stuff

2009-09-22T12:28:00.001-07:00

Lost in thought

2009-09-08T09:01:00.001-07:00

2009-09-03T13:45:00.000-07:00

Small Update

2009-03-27T04:58:00.000-07:00

Starbucks

2009-03-09T23:21:00.000-07:00

Here's some stuff from a starbucks. I could have sworn I had more than this.

Recent Starbucks Doodlings

2009-02-23T07:42:00.000-08:00

Heyy long time no post. I welcome Max and Diana to our little slowly growing group. Hope to see your posts around!!

Hello

2009-02-06T01:02:00.000-08:00

Well, it's about time I posted something! These weren't done in a coffee shop, but it was in the morning and it was around coffee and the atmosphere was great, so it was like a coffee shop, haha

Mixed Stuff from Life in my little Moley

2008-12-12T08:17:00.000-08:00

Starbucks of course

2008-12-08T12:26:00.000-08:00

Colored Pencil!!

2008-12-04T11:56:00.000-08:00

I bought a brand new small moleskine and the cheapest colored pencils i could find. i'll fill this sketchbook with memory drawings from people i see in coffeeshops or on the train.

I saw a video of Stephen Silver where he told that you get most out of lifedrawing by drawing once, turning the paper, and them drawing the same thing from mind. I did this during the last lifedrawing in class and i think its a great thing to do.

I still remember the five poses I've drawn last monday and i think ive learned more than in all the sessions before. I drew every pose twice that way.

I decided to change my starbucks drawing routine a little. I used to draw the people while looking at them all the time. This time I observed first and then sketched from memory.

This way I am forced to simplify and caricature a lot more, cause I can't memorize all the tiny details.

The result are the first two images you see here. The rest is doodle from mind while in class.

Something different today

2008-11-13T02:04:00.000-08:00

I went to starbucks yesterday with my Wacom and Macbook ;-) this took around 1.5 hrs. I am so gonna do this again, its fun!!

Starbucks

2008-09-20T17:05:00.001-07:00

Starbucks

2008-08-30T08:30:00.001-07:00

Starbucks 18.04.08

2008-04-18T06:18:00.001-07:00

Same cafe, different day.

2008-04-10T19:04:00.001-07:00

Antonio's Starbucks Sketches 02.03.08

2008-04-02T09:51:00.000-07:00

Brush Pens and Post-Its

2008-03-31T23:59:00.000-07:00

Alex' Quick Doodles

2008-03-28T12:07:00.001-07:00

Antonio's Coffeeshop-Sketchlings

2008-03-22T16:34:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Coffee Shop Sketch Group

2008-03-22T12:43:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to the CSSG-Blog. This is all about drawing people in Coffee Shops.

This project is about having fun and not about promoting a certain coffeehouse or anything that involves money or commerce.

A few guidelines and ideas:

1. The drawing has to be made by you sitting (or standing) in a so called coffeeshop (starbucks, coffee fellows, sfcc and so on). The main focus is drawing, but if you want you can post photos or artworks all around Coffee Shop Culture, too.

2. All techniques are welcome.

3. It doesn't matter how good you are technically, if you're a starter or a pro, everybody welcome.

4. Draw the people there. Draw caricatures of them, draw realistic, draw abstract, just draw people. You get the idea.

5. You can post your drawings by adding a new entry. Please keep the Image Sizes small. Choose jpg with a middle compression (or what your drawing can "take") and a Size of not bigger than about 800x800, so the file won't be bigger than 100 kb. Use common sense, don't let it be bigger than neccessary.

6. This is about improving drawing skills, giving constructive critique via the comment function and having fun.

7. The whole thing is based on this Blogger-Platform. It's easy to understand and to get used to it. No advertising, fees, other subscriptions whatsoever.

Ready? Join now by sending me an E-Mail to

joincssg at gmail dot com

I will send you an invitation to become an author for this blog. Then you'll be able to simply upload your drawings by adding new posts containing the images.