Jack Frost?

Posted on September 17, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Sketching, Doodle, Life, Imagination, Jack Frost, Silly, Thorn, FairyLeave a comment

When I’m not painting or sketching, I’m doodling.

Meet Jack Frost, or the Thorn Fairy depending on the time of year? I don’t know where the idea came from. But nights are getting a bit longer and colder and today seemed really cold in our house. It was so chilly I put a jumper on! Then this evening I looked up at our bedroom window. The top pane was wide open, no wonder it was cold! Hubby admitted it had been open since this morning. We agreed heating the outside atmosphere with our central heating system is not a good idea!

So now Jack Frost is a Thorn Fairy. A useful creature to keep people out of our garden, perhaps!

SuperCat

Posted on August 17, 2022August 18, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cartoon, Cat, Doodle, Felt pen, Fun, Sketching, supercat, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

I wanted to get a photo of my cat in this pose but he moved. The way he was sleeping reminded me of Superman in flight. The photo of him is transposed because he wouldn’t turn round for me. Now he’s asleep again on the arms of our chairs, he lies on a cushion that straddles the two armchair arms. I would like to do a cartoon strip about a cat. I had done one online a few years ago called the adventures of Tig, but that site is now defunct. When I think about it I have done a lot of art over the years!

Digital face

Posted on August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Artrage oils, Doodle, Filters, finger drawing, Fun, Photodirector, Pleased, SketchingLeave a comment

Combination of artrage oils sketch and then worked on in Photodirector, oo I like it! Sounds simple but I did a lot of work on the digital sketch before I started using filters. I won’t post the original, it’s a bit too scrappy.

Fly

Posted on August 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Doodle, Fly, fly in the ointment, Insect, post it notes, SketchingLeave a comment

A couple of splodges of black ink on a post it note inspired this fly doodle. Just waiting for my PC to sort itself out, I haven’t switched it on for a while and it’s playing up… So a fly in the ointment?.. Maybe

Too many colours?

Posted on July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Doodle, Drawing, Poem, Poetry, prime colours, Rainbow colours, Rhyme, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Triangles and squares

Tangled nightmares?

Or coloured patches

Tiles as thatches

Worn and softened

By digital drawing hand

Playing with space

In this doodling race

Rainbow that rhymes

Abstract at times.

Tour time

Posted on July 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, Drawing, endurance, Sketching, three weeks, Tour de France, TV coverage, Yellow JerseyLeave a comment

Over the next three weeks the Tour de France is taking place. Its an annual bike race like the Giro D’Italia or the Vuelta d’Espania and on a slightly smaller scale the Tour of Britain.

These bike races challenge cyclists of the world to race their way round mountains and plains, to fight their way through crowds and over gruelling roads. In heavy rain, even snow, or sweltering heat.

So many well known names in the cycling world have held the Malliot Jeun (yellow Jersey) such as Eddie Mercxx, Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome for example. I hope I’ve spelled their names properly. It’s certainly a spectacular sports event. There is a lot of expensive equipment and amazing feats of endurance (plus some drug scandals). I’m looking forward to the final day on the Champs Elyssais In Paris (pardon my spelling).

One more for tonight

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Doodle, Environment, Eyes, Hay-fever, Life, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Pollen, SketchingLeave a comment

A doodle based on the previous post about the environment. They say allergies are caused by being bought up in conditions that are too clean so the body does not learn how to react normally to its surroundings.

Feeling stressed

Thinking of nature

But suffering hay-fever!

Eyes water

When I try and commune

With the outside world

The pollen

So tiny

Can keep me trapped.

Sneezing

Enclosed

Removed from nature!

Abstract into face

Posted on June 24, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Glitch, Life, Photodirector, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

A digital drawing or doodle. Started with a blue and yellow drawing, then I used photodirector to add glitches and texture. Once I had saved it I thought I could see a face so I sketched one in using purple then white blue and black.

Histology.

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink fine line pen, cells, Doodle, Drawing, histology, Life, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

I don’t know what I was doing but this emerged today. It looks like a slice through some tissue. Maybe animal or vegetable. I kept doing lay ers of pattern. A line of the drawing had to stick to rules that I set for myself, like a curve every few centimeters or a wobbly line, so that some areas are lighter and less marked than others. It actually drawn on the back of the bird doodle I drew yesterday. I could see where the ink was showing through, but then I decided to extend it further. This was the result.

Clownfish

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, clown fish, Colours, Doodle, Drawing, Fish, fountain pen, Painting, SketchingLeave a comment

Last night I also tried drawing a clown fish and thus is what I came up with. I used a fountain pen to draw over the acrylic paint. I hope this isn’t too silly. It looks like a happy fish. Maybe I should have tried lighter blue and red so that you can see the pen drawn on top of it.

Not sure if this is a sketch, cartoon or a doodle. And in a way I wished I had done a bit better details on it, maybe including scales? I might do more to it, I might play with it more….

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Doodle