Time for a cool glass

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Cold drink, Digital drawing, Ice, Life, Random, Safe distance, Shopping, Thought, WaterLeave a comment

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Thirsty, I really fancy a cool glass of juice. But I don’t have any in. So a glass of cold water with some ice will have to suffice.

I had to do some shopping today. I was pushing a trolley and people kept scooting past me. Two meter distance? it seemed that people were not that bothered! I get in and out as quickly as I can. There is the problem of using touch screens, I walk round with gloves and a face mask, but have to take the gloves off to put my pin in! I could try ordering on line, but apparently there is a three week wait for slots!

Usk day 35, digital close up

Posted on May 23, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged #uskstoke, Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, pencil sharpener, ring, SketchLeave a comment

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Day 35 and the challenge was to draw a close up. Someone drew a necklace so I decided to draw one of my rings. The green tub is meant to be a plastic pencil sharpener. It was quite reflective and you could see the ring mirrored in it. I actually drew both objects on top of the tablet, so the light was shining up . Its a different method to what I normally do, but I want to try and get some skill back doing this kind of thing.

Moon up

Posted on May 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Beginnings, Blogging, Creative writing, Digital drawing, Drawing, Earth, Evolving, Life, New creation myth, Pollution, Short story, Sketchfu drawing, WorldLeave a comment

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Yet when they looked back, the gods saw the world was beautiful.

They flew on into space, leaving the blue planet, its fascinating surface, watery and dry, cold and hot.

They had seeded it with bacteria and viruses. They had given it a satellite, called Selene. So the water flowed back and forth, and would eventually encourage life to flow onto the land.

They knew billions of years would pass and agreed to return when, and if, a major species grew up and made efforts to fly beyond the world.

They called the planet Earith, home, Gaia, and waited to see if their seed bed grew.

In May 2020 they returned.

They saw the oceans polluted, the mountains denuded of snow. They saw the glaciers melting and the oceans rising. They could see all the problems.

But they were gods, they could will things to change, eradicate the major species, allow the wilderness to return.

They agreed that this was not possible. Man must learn from its mistakes. Let us return in two millenia and see what has happened they said.

They left, wondering what they would find on their return.

Sonnets

Posted on May 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Digital drawing, Inspiration, Instagram, Life, Next generation, Patrick Stewart, Shakespeare, Sketchfu, Sonnets, Star TrekLeave a comment

Digital drawing of Partick Stewart as captain Picard from Star Trek. Drawn on the sketchfu app a few years ago. I was quite pleased with the result.

I’m currently watching Partick Stewart read Shakespeare’s sonnets on Instagram. He is reading them from lockdown, and I think he is on sonnet 54.

I love his voice, it is so impressive, I think it has ‘gravitas’ and he has a thoughtful way of putting the words across. When I’ve had a stressful day his reading calms me down.

I do not know the sonnets, I’m hearing them all with a fresh ear. I don’t have expectations of how they should sound. Listening is like a meditation.

Gecko

Posted on May 5, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Fun, Gecko, Life, Orange and green, Pattern, SketchfuLeave a comment

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I drew this at sketchfu probably about ten years ago. I’d drawn the orange and green pattern first, and then added the gecko afterwards. I love the idea of camouflage. I can’t remember if I made the lizard up or if I used an image of one from somewhere. If I did I would have modified the colours.

One problem with sketchfu was the way the colour laid down on the screen. Different drawing apps work differently. With sketchfu what happened was that if you did not have the pens on full opacity you got a slightly fuzzy effect. Imagine if you had an old felt pen. The colour is fading and the nib is a bit frayed. That’s what the effect of the pens on the digital app was like.

I hope you like my dinky little gecko.

Picsart review

Posted on May 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Apps, art rage, changing images, Design, Digital drawing, digital sketching, Drawing, Fun, Imagination, Learning, Mosaic, pics art, Sketching6 Comments

Picsart was an app I really liked. I’d used it for a while and you could alter pictures and draw over the top of them if I remember . Now however there are more patterns that you can superimpose over your original art, but it doesn’t seem as interesting.

As you can see from these images I like to mess about with the effects available. On these I used effects to change the colour and hue, distortions, outlining edges and embossing.

This is the original that I drew at ArtRage.

I was trying to get a mosaic effect.

Anyway more later on. Its after 3am!

Dance

Posted on April 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Contrasting colours, Dance, Dancer, Digital drawing, Exciting, Fun, Learning, Playing, Red and greenLeave a comment

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Green and red can really zing. It depends on the brightness and hue of the colours, here I used the sketcher app on my tablet to create a simple image of a dancer. You don’t have to be exact or realistic to create art….. Just have fun. Something will make you happy or sad, will surprise you. Art us learning, sometimes every day or month. You do art and it can move you. It grabs you and wants you to make more. It is a buzz….

Doodling again

Posted on April 25, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Abstract, Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Face, Learning, Picture, Sketching, Tablet2 Comments

I’ve been playing with a sketching app on my tablet, I haven’t used it very often, so the results are very experimental, I just tried as many pens and brushes as I could, some of them are difficult to work out. I decided to do something bold!

Trafalgar Square

Posted on April 25, 2020April 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art. Drawing, Digital drawing, Life, London, Pencil sketch, Sketching, Trafalgar Square, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

Today for our virtual sketching visit we drew Trafalgar square in London.

Every weekend Stoke-on-Trent Urban Sketchers chooses a venue to draw from and this week was a view of Trafalgar Square with the National gallery and one of the famous lions in the foreground. The image was taken from Google maps and each sketcher drew it or another view of it. There were about ten artists drawing and sketching or using ink pens, some of them were using watercolours too. At the end we had a throw down (a digital view of all the drawings). An enjoyable couple of hours.

Digital drawing, Picard.

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Borg, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Fun, Picard, Portrait, Sci fi, Star Trek2 Comments

I’m a big fan of Star Trek, and one of my favourite characters was Jean Luc Picard from the Next Generation series. I think the actor Patrick Stewart gives the part a great gravitas, although sometimes it can get a little weird.

I don’t have a favourite episode, but I do like the film where the Borg go back in time to an Earth where Zephram Cocheran is about to use warp drive for the first time. I can’t remember what it was called. Something like First Contact. But that’s the title of a Science Fiction film with Jodie Foster, about aliens contacting the Earth. Written by Carl Sagan, so I’m not sure.

This portrait was drawn on the sketchfu website that I used to work on. I think this is about seven years old. I will probably find more of them popping up on my Facebook memories.

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