Splodges morphed

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Layout app, Photodirector, Sketching, Sketching with patternLeave a comment

This image has gone through a lot of processes. It is actually the coloured splodges that I played with to create Tiger cub and clown fish. I’ve added texture, changed the hue, duplicated sections of the image, and put it through various apps. I have increased its sharpness and added grunge and structure. I know, you’re asking why? Because it’s interesting. You can create a massive amount of colour and pattern. I don’t know when I start how the image will turn out, I just keep playing till it looks done. I’m sketching with pattern, digitally manipulating the splodges. X

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….

North

Posted on June 12, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cat, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, North, Sketching, weather vaneLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was North. I decided to draw a design for a weather vane that points North. I thought I’d rather draw this rather than someone standing at the North Pole. Either that or a compass could have been a choice. Felt pen drawing in my sketchbook.

Never say bad art

Posted on June 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black pen, Bricks, Chimney, Design, Drawing, Etruria, Hubby, Life, Sketching, Stoke-on trent2 Comments

When we went to the canal festival a few weeks ago we both sat and drew. My hubby did a quick sketch of the large chimney at the back of the museum. You can see that although he doesn’t normally draw he’s got the idea of perspective and the regular lines on top of the bricks are the iron bands supporting the chimney all the way up its length. He’s also included a roof and trees and a brick wall.

Art isn’t something he generally does. He will pick up an adult colouring book sometimes but he tends to colour in with lines rather than shading things in fully. I think that is because he has a lot of anxiety and his mind bounces about and he doesn’t settle to one thing. But he is willing to try. I think that’s important. Art should be for everyone. They might not be Raphael or Titian but who knows what might emerge? Art is, I think, very important to humans, for aesthetics or design, communication or lifestyle. Just do it! ❤️

Eye

Posted on June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Drawing, Eye, flames, Life, Photodirector, Sight, Sketching, Star, YellowLeave a comment

Look at you,

Star-ing out at me

Flame of yellow eye

Iris shaped and twisted

Sight burnt by the light

Scrunched into a small space

Tears flood your lashes

Dark shadows cast

Hard stare

Thoughtful and sad.

Movement

Posted on June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, cartwheel, Doodle, Drawing, Falling, Felt pens, Fun, hop, Jumping, Life, Movement, Scribble, Sketchbook, SketchingLeave a comment

I do odd doodles in my sketchbook. This wS a drawing of someone falling, then I added stick figures of jumping and handstands and other movements. Why not? It’s a good mental exercise to try and think what the positions of limbs are when the body moves. It’s a bit scruffy, but I’m trying to get the shapes right. I think the falling one was hardest. Positioning of hands and arms from a memory of someone falling is not easy!

Pigeon

Posted on June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bird, Biro, Drawing, Fun, Life, Pigeon, Sketchbook, SketchingLeave a comment

Pigeon, today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was bird. I decided not to Google a bird, but to try and draw from memory. I think it’s a reasonable representation, I dare not look at a photo of one to see how wrong I’ve got it!

Biro drawing in my sketchbook.

Odd story

Posted on June 8, 2022June 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Life, Odd story, Plot twist, Portrait, Short story, Silly story, Story, TwinsLeave a comment

I saw the twins again today, she said. They are getting older, but they still look the same. Craggy, serious, hard.

Yes, I know, he said, they were never cute, but they certainly have character.

I think I will ask them if I can draw their portraits she said. It would be interesting to chat with them and find out a bit about them.

So three weeks later she say down with a pen and paper and started to draw Kim and Jen. She started slowly, trying to find their differences and their similarities. Chatting with them she found they finished each others sentences. Kim was a Chemist, Jen was a Jeweler. Both had problems with their lives. The world couldn’t get its head around identical sisters. Well, not exactly that, she could see what they meant.

Wooden puppets! Who knew they could be alive and walking round the world. Pinnochio had a lot to answer for!

Rocky

Posted on June 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Photodirector, Prompt, Rocky, SketchingLeave a comment

Well I decided to play with this. I could have chosen a photo, but this turned out a bit like a multi coloured jelly! Two versions, one digitally manipulated. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Rocky.

Coastline

Posted on June 5, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Australia, Coast, Colours, Drawing, Felt pens, Ocean, Sea, Sketching6 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was coast. I have done a few coast drawings recently and wanted to find a really picturesque view. I randomly chose a photo of the Australian coast to draw. When my felt pens run out I will have to try another technique!

Mallaband-Brown

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