Look into my eyes

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Amazing, Art, BBC, Drawing, glow up, Life, Make-up, Sketching, TV programme2 Comments

I was just watching a programme called ‘Glow up’ about make up artists competing to win a make up artist of the year award. They are all young, enthusiastic people and the work they did was amazing. The first challenge was to create fresh makeup for an advertising campaign. The results were varied between very subtle and very bold. The second challenge was to create a make up which represented the place the contestants came from. One competitor came up with a bee for Manchester on her models nose, and eagles wings using feathers on the models eyebrows.

I’ve never seen this programme before on BBC 1, but I’m glad I did. I have done a small amount of face-palming in the past but this was on an entirely different scale. Really amazing and artistic! My sketch here is nothing in comparison. X

Profile

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodling, Drawing, Glowing, sketchbook app, Sketching2 Comments

A doodle drawn in sketchbook app, there are a lot of pens and brushes on the app, so I chose glowing colours and then a thin magenta pen to draw a profile over the top. Spirals are one of my favourite geometric patterns. It’s just a finger painting.

Atoms?

Posted on May 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Atoms, Crystal, Drawing, Energy, Fun, Imagination, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching, ThinkingLeave a comment

Atoms surge

Vibrate and link

Molecules appear

Crystals, compounds

Quanta of energy

Scrambled electrons

Muons and Gluons

Barely existing.

Tiny and powerful

Forces pulling

and pushing

Making, creating

And destroying

Conservation

Of energy

Universal

Drop

Posted on May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Drops, Felt pens, fine black ink pen, Sketching, WaterLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was drop. Drop or drops. Tried to imagine how water drops fall and splash… I know drops fall like a flat oval, not the pointed ones that kids draw, and water splashes back up like a crown…. I didn’t use a reference picture, just tried to remember…

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

Circle

Posted on May 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Circles, Drawing, Felt pens, Pareidolia, shower curtain, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was circle. I drew Circles. I used to have a shower curtain showing bubbles, a bit like this… It drove me mad because I kept seeing bubble people like this on it! It was an example of Pareidolia.

Manipulated images

Posted on May 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, but different, Drawing, Fun, Photodirector, Playing, Sketching, The same2 Comments

Both these images started out the same. One I adjusted to add texture. The other I used a mozaic, fisheye and inverting tool. It’s fun to digitally finger paint. I need to get my PC working so I can do something more complex and finely manipulated. I’m learning all the time.

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.

Listening.

Posted on May 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Ear, Felt pens, Listening, Prompt, Sketching, Thursday2 Comments

Hubbys ear with hearing aid sort of visible
He’s got grey hair but I didn’t have the right felt pens to draw them so I’ve suggested dark hair. Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was listening. Felt pen drawing.

Owlish

Posted on May 4, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, metallic sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

Waiting… Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt. Digital finger painting in Artrage app of an owl waiting for prey. . Ready to fly and pounce on a mouse! I decided to do something other than a felt pen drawing. Done while watching Jim and Nancy Moir programme about Owls on Sky Arts TV. ‘Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir’.

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