I forgot the arm!

Posted on May 20, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged arm, Doodle, Drawing, Glasses, lenses, long sighted, short sighted, Sketching, Vision4 Comments

How would these stay up?

I’ve made an ‘armless’ sketch of big glasses. I was just trying out some textures in my sketchbook app.

Do you know you can tell if someone is short or long sighted depending on whether their eyes look bigger (long sighted) or smaller (short sighted). That is dependent on the convex or concave nature of the lenses in their glasses.

If you are very short sighted your eyes will look smaller than if you are only mildly affected. It also depends on whether your spectacle lenses are made of glass or plastic.

If you ever watch a TV programme or film with an actor wearing glasses then look at the lenses. If the light catches them you can see if the glass is flat, then you know they don’t really need glasses!

Variation

Posted on May 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Artrage, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing apps, Green bird, Life, sketchbook app, Sketching, tree branches2 Comments

Using sketchbook app to draw tree branches. It’s interesting how you can import images and add to them, this is all a bit scruffy but I had fun doing it X.

Old digital sketch

Posted on May 18, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, Dotty, Drawing, Eyes, Face, Pattern, Pointellist, Sketchfu, Sketching2 Comments

Drawn with dots at a now defunct site called sketchfu. The site had a colour picker, about six round brush sizes. An opacity/transparency setting, zoom option and a pallette. Not many tools, but simple to use and it attracted a lot of traffic (thousands of users). In the end the owners abandoned it, they ghosted us moderators (I was one) I think they sold the site off.

Guess?

Posted on May 14, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized, SketchingTagged Art, Sketching, Doodle, Bird, Life, Cartoon, Guess, ArtRage app, #bandofsketchers, silly sketch2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was guess.. Guess what bird this is? A teet owl….? Just a silly digital cartoon drawing using Artrage and trying to use all the different tools on the app.

Tweet bird

Posted on May 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Bird, Budgie, Colourful, Doodle, Drawing, Fun, Parrot, Sketching, tweet2 Comments

Drew over yesterday’s monster to create something else. A little parrot or budgie? If I don’t do anything else artistic I’m still doing doodles. Still using Artrage app to draw interesting images. It’s just an imaginary bird. Tomorrow is a new day, perhaps I can do something more than a sketch. X

Artrage face

Posted on May 8, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodle, Drawing, Face, Life, Mark making, SketchingLeave a comment

Abstract face finger painted with the Artrage app on my phone. I like the way the different brushes and changing the roughness of the surface and grain size gives it a real textured surface. I added lines on the eyes and mouth rising a roller tool that left a line if you dabbed your finger on the surface of the phone. I also added spirals on the edges of the picture, I was trying to make it look like material. If you turn the pen up to 100% metallic the colours get darker.

Not art?

Posted on May 6, 2023 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Digitally manipulated, Doodle, Drawings, Sketching, Stripes, Tabby, tortoise shell cat2 Comments

Playing and learning, using metallic felt pens and the filters and mosaic tool on my phone.. It’s the sort of thing you might call a doodle or an illustration. But is it art? I could imagine using these images for cards or for a children’s book. The cat is titled “tortie”. Not much more I can say.

Doodle to face

Posted on May 3, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Analogue, Art, Design, Digital, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Felt pens, Fun, Life, Photodirector, Sketching2 Comments

I decided to play with my latest doodle, I used a sketching app to add the facial details, then photodirector to smooth out the rough edges. I do like to experiment with analogue and digital images.

Got new Glitter pens

Posted on May 3, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Black ink pen, Doodle, Drawing, Felt pens, Glitter pens, Gold pen, Life, Sketchpad2 Comments

Doodling on cartridge paper which was a nice surface to draw on. I’m using a different sketchbook and got some new glittery felt pens. Unfortunately the sparkle is not very strong. I then added black liner pen and some gold pen. I almost added a face to this, but left it as finished. However if I can add it digitally as a background I might have a go at drawing over it in a digital app……

Statue scribble

Posted on April 27, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged blue crayon, Children, Crayon, Doodle, Life, Lines, Odd, Scribble, Silly, Sketching, StatueLeave a comment

A few days ago there was a news story about a museum that gave children crayons and paper when they visited. Unfortunately one of the children used a blue crayon to scribble all over an old sculpture. I was drawing a female head and shoulders and it suddenly struck me that it looked a bit like the statue. I added lines, and it seemed even more like the scribbled statue. Strange what your mind takes you.

Mallaband-Brown

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