12 years ago

Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged after Escher, Digital drawing, Drawing, Globe, Hand, Imagination, Reflection, View, Wacom tablet2 Comments

Drawn on my Wacom tablet in photoshop 12 years ago. Based on the Escher drawing. I think I was drawn to the idea of a hand holding a reflective ball. This was a real challenge and was mainly drawn from imagination, but I looked at my hand held up in this position to draw it accurately.

The room in the reflection is based on what was in front of me but with added curves to try and recreate the spherical feeling. The room had been ‘edited’ removing some of the clutter. The view is not what would have been reflected in a globe which was a wall behind me. Only my head and shoulders were truly imagined.

Busy

Posted on June 2, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Pattern, sketchbook app, SketchingLeave a comment

A busy abstract pattern that evolved in a couple of apps. Not very neat and tidy and only done this because I couldn’t think of anything else on the busy theme. For prompt “busy” #bandofsketchers

Etruria Canal Festival

Posted on June 2, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black ink, Drawing, Etruria festival, Etruria Industrial museum, Forge, Life, Sketching, Stoke-on-Trent Urban sketchers, Urban sketchingLeave a comment

Drawings for the Stoke-on-Trent urban sketchers group. I was sorry not to see any other urban sketchers there at Etruria today but I was just there to sing with Clay Chorus and the Boat Band. I was getting a lift there and back with someone so I couldn’t stay. First drawing, The Forge with someone sitting on the wall. The second was across the canal on the car park looking back at the festival while waiting for the Shuttle bus. Hampered by a stiff breeze and my hat blowing off twice!

Poppy against a grey sky

Posted on May 26, 2024May 26, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Colour, Digital drawing, Grey sky, Life, Memory, Plant, Poppy art, Red petals, stemsLeave a comment

Artrage digital drawing. I saw some poppies against a grey sky and I decided to quickly draw a representation of the colours. Drawn using a stylus rather than a finger painting. I like the ways the stems aren’t always straight.

Metallic eye?

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Blue, Digital drawing, Drawing, Eye, Funny, Metallic, pupil, SketchingLeave a comment

I’ve jut tried to alter the drawing of a gold bangle I drew for another post. I’ve smudged the outside and added white to the centre then a blue pupil with white highlights. I also rotated the image by 90°.

I’ve ended up with an eye apparently floating in space. Perhaps I should add stars?

Flowers

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Chelsea flower show, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Flowers, sketchfu site, SketchingLeave a comment

Drawing of flowers done on the sketchfu app 6 years ago. This was influenced by the Chelsea Flower Show that happens in May every year. My favourite plants are included here, marigolds, pansies, poppy, for instance. I hope my yard looks a bit more like this in a month or so.

Gold coloured bangle

Posted on May 23, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, bangle, Childhood, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1947, Drawing, gold coloured, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

What personal belongings do you hold most dear?

When I was about 12 my mom and dad bought me a gold coloured bangle as a present while we were on holiday. It clipped together on one side and had a little chain that stopped it from falling off. Of all the things I have this was the most precious. I still have it, it is a bit worn, the gold colour has rubbed off a bit, the swirly engraving of flowers is still visible but it’s slightly too small so I rarely wear it.

Pneumonia

Posted on May 22, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Hospital, Illness, Life, Memory, pneumonia, Sketch, Time, ViewLeave a comment

Six years ago I had to go to hospital. But I still wanted to draw.

A drawing I did when I was in hospital 6 years ago with pneumonia. Even when I’m not well I still want to do art. I was in for a few days. When the antibiotics kicked in I started to feel better and got very bored, so I asked my hubby (bless him) to bring me a sketch pad and some pencils. It helped that I was in a side room and I had a view out across the valley with hospital buildings, houses and trees. I was a bit annoyed with the thick window frames that blocked a lot of the view but I guess they need to be sturdy. I hope I don’t have to go through that again, but if I do I will be asking for art materials!

Old digital drawing

Posted on May 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colourful, Digital drawing, Drawing, Memory, Sketchfu, sketchfu website, SketchingLeave a comment

Drawn on the old sketchfu website. I used a circular tool and layered up the colours, then I used a smaller circle set at a lower opacity to add the shade and highlights. It was a really simple site to use, I wish it was still open for use.

Cat

Posted on May 17, 2024 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, ginger cat, Metallic, Non metallic, Prompt, Sketching, tabby catLeave a comment

Of course it had to be a mad digital cat drawn in Artrage with metallic and non metallic pens. #bandofsketchers prompt was Animal.

Artrage is a fun app to use, you can try various tools like oil paint, spray paint, pens, different brushes and pastel. The brush sizes can be varied on a sliding scale and you can change the amount of metallic and non metallic paint you use. There was a free version, Artrage oils. I don’t know if it’s still available.

Mallaband-Brown

Category: Sketching