Sketching tutors

Posted on August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Blogging, Cross hatching, Drawing, Ink sketches, Life, People, Portraits, Quick sketches, Sketching, Webinar2 Comments

When you are in a webinar and you are listening to people talking, why not sketch them? I don’t get much chance of doing portraits of people at the moment and so I take them when I can. Our webinars require students to have their mic and camera switched off, and only switching the mic on if you want to say something. When you are in a group of up to forty students I guess it makes it easier to hear what’s being said and it’s less distracting. I make notes, but I can’t help wanting to draw…

So if you are ever in a zoom meeting with me… Beware I might do a quick sketch of you too!

Bathroom sketch, urban sketchers

Posted on August 21, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Bathroom, Drawing, Five thirty am, Life, Picture, Quick draw, SketchingLeave a comment

Five thirty am Friday. Had a frantic day yesterday getting my stuff submitted to college. Followed by a five mile walk (not walked that far for years), then called in Sawadee Thai taste for a snack so didn’t get home till late. My legs are aching so much it woke me up. Don’t have any pages left in sketchbooks so drew this on a blank card.

Thursdays prompt was bathroom or bedroom for urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge. Well I’m late because it’s Friday. But at least I did something. Note to self buy more sketchbooks.

Coursework Submitted.

Posted on August 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 0/10, Alphabet, blocks!, costs me money!, Drawing, frustraiting, I pay for this! imposed, miffed, slow to load, too many options, WordPressLeave a comment

I’ve been up till 4am two nights this week, including this morning. Ive had to ring the IT service to wrangle PowerPoint and Word documents into pdfs then had to merge the documents together ( thank you smallpdf website). then I uploaded lots of work to the college website.

So coming here has been a bit of an impossibility over the last couple of days. The imposition of “blocks” which has more options than my alphabet, has also added to my stress and anxiety… and the fact I’m paying for this service is not forgotten.

I think that professional writers might like it. I can see that you could produce really interesting spreads, but really? I’m sure a lot of us are much less bothered about adding collages or audio, a cover (why?). What’s a pullquote? a Hero? SyntaxingHighlighter Code (FFS!)

You are pressing my BUTTONS big time!

right, I will try, I don’t want to waste my money…..good luck everyone. see you on the other side…

OH ITS STILL HERE????????

Finding things to draw.

Posted on August 19, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cafe, Drawing, Ink drawing, Life, Meeting, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

No Urban sketchers challenge today so I drew a friend (we met in a cafe to discuss art today), it’s not a brilliant because I got the eyes and nose too big. You can see the grain of the paper, it’s a handmade sketch book and the paper is thicker than I normally draw on. It’s grey because the day was very overcast. This was taken with a light on, but it didn’t illuminate the photo very well. It was good to draw a person again

Pattern,USK S-O-T prompt.

Posted on August 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Colour, Drawing, Life, Pattern, Permanent markers, Sketch, Sketching, Sofa, ThrowLeave a comment

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My friends at #uskstoke know my love of pattern so today’s prompt was for me! It took me a while because its been busy. I drew my cat in front of the sofa which has a bright throw over it. I didn’t get the pattern perfect and I had to rely on a quick photo to catch the cats face. Anyway I enjoyed doing this.

Life drawing practice

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Drawing, Exercises, Life, Life drawing, Practice, Sketching, TextLeave a comment

I was looking for a spare sketchbook today and these drawings fell out of one of my old ones from about 3 years ago? They were quick sketches in a life drawing exercise. We were all given pages ripped from an old paperback and some pastels. Then we drew the model quickly when he arrived. One was just using shadows, another was trying to draw a mirror image, and left handed, plus different poses. I’ve edited the pictures to prevent embarrassment.

We have been including text in my illustration course. I’m glad I found these. Given me new ideas!

Urban sketching rules

Posted on August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A bit about urban sketching, Art, Blogging, Glass, Rambling, shadow, Sketching, Sketching rules, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent4 Comments

Since urban sketchers challenge today was shadow, I could have drawn something like this. But we are not allowed to work from photos. Also the image needs to be in context, so not just the glass and table, but the surroundings. It makes for more difficult art, you have to think about what you are including. There are Facebook pages you can join and a monthly magazine that shows urban sketching from around the world.

This years annual urban sketchers meet up was cancelled because of the virus. It would have been in Leeds. Hopefully it will happen next year.

Grrrr

Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Block editor?, Blogging, Drawing, Frustrating, Irritating, Learning, Sketcher app, Sketching, Trying to understand, WordPressLeave a comment

Good, I seem to be back to the old fashioned WordPress. I just tried posting on my tablet and everything looked completely different! I think I was in ‘blocks’! Now I have a post you can only see half of, basically this little drawing of a little goose isn’t even showing up unless you press a button to show more. Why? Grrr! I’ve been using WordPress for a couple of years now and I thought I’d got it sussed.

Ah well, sorry to moan.

Little goose

Posted on August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Doodle, Drawing, out of date?, Sketch, Sketcher free app6 Comments

Something has happened to my word press. I want the old version back please?

Continue reading “Little goose” →

Dog drawing 2014

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2014, Blogging, Boatband, Dog, Double bass, Fun, Happy, Howl, Music, Singing, WoofLeave a comment

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Woof!

I drew him in 2014. It’s in amongst some drawings of the Boatband that I did in 2014. But this cheered me up, I think he was howling along with the music as dogs sometimes do. We had a great time as usual. I’ve even found a picture of someone playing a double bass, not something that occurs very often.

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I can’t imagine anyone wanting to bring this into a crowded pub very often. I think I’ve got the proportions wrong!

Mallaband-Brown

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