Happy new year to you all!
Posts Tagged ‘sketch’
Sunday Sketchblog #170
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, chinese new year, dog silhouette, drawing, painting, shiba inu, shiba inu silhouette, sketch, watercolour, year of the dog on February 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Sunday Sketchblog #169
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, croquis, drawing, outfit sketch, sketch, sketchblog on February 4, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Sunday Sketchblog #168
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged clothes, croquis, drawing, drawing practice, hogwarts hoodie, outfit sketches, primark harry potter, sketch, sketches on January 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Back in early December I decided that drawing my outfits would be good practice. A sound theory, but although I really liked the idea of keeping a record of what I wear, I wasn’t happy with how they looked. Back to the drawing board.
I gave up on the idea of drawing croquis from scratch each time (because, frankly, I suck at it) so got myself a template and am starting again.
Sunday Sketchblog #167
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, birthday, drawing, graffiti, inktense, painting, sketch, street art, watercolour on January 14, 2018| Leave a Comment »
A special sketchblog post today. This is a painting I gave to my friends Ginge and Ellie this weekend in celebration of their birthdays (turning a respective 50 and 40). Ginge is a friend who shares my appreciation of street art and often sends me photos of the interesting pieces he spots.
Happy birthday you two!
Sunday Sketchblog #166
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, aslan, bettys of harrogate, diary, english heritage, grewelthorpe, hackfall, henry moore, house of the trembling madness, how stean gorge, narnia, painting, pen and ink, robin hood's bay, sketch, sketch diary, sketchblog, the ship inn, the shop that must not be named, watercolour, whip-ma-whop-ma-gate, whitby, whitby abbey, york, Yorkshire, yorkshire sculpture park on January 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Buckle up, it’s my holiday diary! We took a rare winter holiday and explored parts of Yorkshire, which was delightful. I hope you enjoy my ramblings.
Sunday Sketchblog #165
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, doodling, drawing, mollie makes, notes, sketch, sketchbook on December 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Sunday Sketchblog #164
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, drawing, drawing practice, fashion sketches, outfit sketches, sketch, sketchblog, sketches on December 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This week’s edition of “I really need to practice drawing” comes in the form of sketching my outfits. Which I suck at, but I might try and do this more often as it is good practice and also quite interesting (for me) to see what I actually wear. Like most people I have a lot of clothes and suspect that I barely wear half of them, so perhaps if I keep this daily outfit thing up I’ll be able to weed out the things that I really don’t need to keep!
Sunday Sketchblog #163
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged drawing, drawing practice, library, magazine, mollie makes, pen and ink, sketch, sketchblog, sketchbook on November 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since my last sketchblog post, because I’ve done that thing where I’ve mislaid my drawing mojo. I know I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: I’m not someone to whom drawing comes naturally. I have to really work at it. Which isn’t a bad thing, I mean I can draw well, but when I go too long between drawings I lose confidence and then I sort of tense up. When I’m tense my work is absolutely shite, it really is. My drawings are at their best when they’re loose and feel alive, but when I’m lacking in confidence I tense up and overwork things: I try to get things too precise, and that’s when it all goes tits up.
I did a bit of practice work a couple of weeks ago to try and get to grips with perspective, for a very specific project that I have had in mind for a while, but I’m not sharing those yet. Today I’ll share what I did last night. Nothing thrilling, but I was reading a magazine on my Kindle and decided I’d just draw bits of it as I went along (and also making some notes). Just an exercise in loosening up again, a bit like stretching to warm up before going for a run (as if I’d ever do anything as crazy as running, ha! But you get the idea). Oh, yes, and I’ve abandoned my usual sketchbook for the time being and am using a cheap crappy notebook, just to take away another aspect that I have issues with (namely not wanting to muck up a decent book).
Sunday Sketchblog #161
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, drawing, holiday, orkney, postcard, postcards, scotland, sketch, sketchbook, summer holiday, vacation, watercolor, watercolour, watercolour postcard, Yorkshire on September 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Today we arrived back in London after our annual jaunt to Scotland. Here are the postcards I painted in Orkney, plus one special one from Yorkshire.
Sunday Sketchblog #160
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, dog, drawing, komondor, pen and ink, sketch, sketchblog on September 17, 2017| Leave a Comment »
A little drawing to remember our friend George, who passed away earlier this year.
Rest in peace George, you’ll always be remembered.
