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

My manifesto at the moment

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Calligraphy, College, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Ideas, Ideas generation, Manifesto, Random, Thinking, World peace?2 Comments

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It’s quite simple at the moment. I think college want something a bit more thought out though? Ideas anyone?

I know I left off world peace. Please forgive me. It’s a bit tongue in cheek (humorous) but why not. With everything so grim at the moment.

Anyway back to typing things up. Later x

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!

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” →

Drawing portraits

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Design, Drawing, Faces, How do I?, Life, Measuring, Pictures, PortraitsLeave a comment

_20200717_170656_optimized This is from a few years ago. I think it was just someone in a cafe or a pub. I don’t remember asking permission to draw him. But this is about twenty years old, so there is no reason why I would. What I like to do is draw carefully. I don’t pick my pencil up to measure, but I do look carefully. I try and get the proportions right. I look at the length of the nose, the width of the lips. The length of the hair and the shape of the person’s face. Portrait drawing and painting can be nerve wracking. But I enjoy doing it. I’m addicted to art.

Mallaband-Brown

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