LOTR drawing

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Frodo, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Muzy, Sketchfu, Sketching, WebsiteLeave a comment

Frodo, drawn on a website called sketchfu a few years ago.

I liked it because it had simple tools to draw with, but you could get reasonable results. Unfortunately it was closed down a few years ago. I think the owners were overwhelmed by the amount of chat on it, the art started to become secondary to people writing fan fiction and stories, the site was getting full and they couldn’t afford to extend it. Then they started up a new site called Muzy and Sketchfu seemed to be forgotten. In the end I managed to save a lot of my drawings before the whole thing was closed down. It was very sad, a lot of people lost a lot of art that they had spent a lot of time over.

Tonights sketch

Posted on April 26, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Choir practice, Face, Movement, Picture, Portrait, Shadows, Singing5 Comments

One of tonights choir group, each week I’ve been drawing a participant as they sing. It’s good practice as they are moving and the shadows move with them. If you notice the image is slightly distorted. That’s because I had the sketchpad flat on my desk and it’s caused a slightly elongated drawing that is tipped slightly to the right…

It’s something to check on when you are drawing, sometimes it can cause a lot of distortion if you are not careful.

Penkhull tree.

Posted on April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 6B, Art, Drawing, fine line ink pen, Life, Pencil sketch, silver pen, Sketching, Sunset, Trees, twenty minute sketchLeave a comment

My first outdoor sketch apart from in our garden or from a window or a photograph for a year. View of a tree on the Croft, Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.Drawn with a 6b pencil over about twenty minutes on our evening walk. I added black ink fine line pen and silver felt pen later.

#bandofsketchers spiral

Posted on April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Cabochon, Chain, coloured glass, Drawing, Life, metallic glass, Sketching, Wire weaving2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt.. Spiral.
Spiral of wire weaving my friend Deborah did for one of my glass cabochons I made at Angela Ashtons fused glass workshop a few years ago.

The wire weave and chain is a deep bronze colour, I couldn’t really do it justice. There are coloured glass and metallic effect glass in the cabochon.

I’m happy with the drawing, it’s not perfect but it does represent it.

Tonights portrait session

Posted on April 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Calligraphy pen, Five portraits, Fun, Life, Sketchbook, Sketching, students2 Comments

Five portraits, one five minutes and the other four are ten minute ones. Black calligraphy pen on cartridge paper. The lighting isn’t good so the paper looks a bit grey. People provided objects to add to the portraits. I really enjoy these sessions.

Over..

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink, Drawing, Hartshill, Hawthorn, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stoke-on trent, Tree6 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was over… Today’s walk led us under this hawthorn tree that was growing over the road. Its in Hartshill on the way up to Queens Road. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Is this a map?

Posted on April 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Description, Doodle, Drawing, five words, is it a map? Creating characters, Map, SketchingLeave a comment

OK, this was a doodle for a project in one of the weeks at college. We had five words chosen for us and had to create characters and situations for them to be in.

Mine were: copper, glasses, bedroom, sarcastic and star.

I’d made a crown earlier in the year for a virtual panto I was in. It was made of card covered in holographic stars. I finished the work, but now we are doing a project on creating a map. I was looking back on previous work and found this. It’s a map I think? It’s not what I’m doing for the project but it made me think about what a map is.

I would define a map as:

Describing a place pictorially with images, or using sound to give directions.

It can be imagined or realistic. Using icons or symbols to describe objects within the map. Indications of pathways or roads, ways to navigate the area. And rules to show whether places are only accessible in a certain way. Exits and entrances. Also is the map two or three dimensional, how is that represented. Lots to think about.

Old watercolour

Posted on April 21, 2021April 25, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drought, Flowers, grey skies, Painting, Rain, rain clouds, Water, Watercolour sketchLeave a comment

I miss rainclouds, full of dark grey promise. We’ve had a few weeks of dry weather and apart from a few spots of rain this morning we’ve had nothing. With that and the cold, frosty mornings, it’s taking a while for the plants to grow. We have a few seedlings, but when I went to a garden nursery they had hardly any perennial plants ready for growing on. I for one am hoping for rain soon.

Remembered scary tree

Posted on April 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Childhood, Drawing, faded memories, History, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spooky, Time, TreeLeave a comment

Oh I used to run past this tree. I was convinced as a child that it was inhabited by a ghost. As part of this terms college work we had to remember some landscape from our childhood and this was what I thought of.

I’ve probably missed out trees and I can’t remember if there were houses in the background. But it will remain with me forever!

Mark making.

Posted on April 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, blue pencil crayon, College, Drawing, Fun, Learning, Life, Mark making, Sketching, Workshop7 Comments

Not a good photo, but this was me drawing different marks as part of a mark making workshop.

It was supposed to be in pencil but all I had was a blue pencil crayon. I also tried rubbing over the top of an embossed tin. You had to come up with as many different marks as you coukd in a five minute period. It gets your mind working… Good for creativity.

Mallaband-Brown

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