Eye doodles

Posted on December 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Doodling, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Learning, Life, nostrils, Photodirector, Sketching2 Comments

For as long as I can remember I have drawn eyes. Sometimes I’ve even just painted them. I have always drawn faces, my Mom would ask why I drew nostrils when I was about nine or ten, and I said it was because people had them! I’ve never stopped drawing eyes, but I have a definite way I learnt when I was a child and its hard to get out of the habit, they just don’t look realistic. It’s something to do with the shading of the eyeballs, and the eyelids and flesh around them. Hence doodling to play with my technique and used photodirector to change the texture on the drawings.

Pets

Posted on December 29, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, Pets, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was pets. This is one of our black and white cats, his eyes are very dark gold so when he’s in shadow they are hard to see. He’s the biggest of our rescue cats, he used to be the outside cat but has migrated in and now lives happily with our other two.

Integrity

Posted on December 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, fingerprint, honesty, identity, integrity, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt today is Integrity. To me that is also part of my identity. I had fun trying to recreate fingerprints (not mine) after watching the royal institution Christmas lectures about crime scene investigation. Having Integrity is also somehow about honesty.

Joy

Posted on December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, angels, Art, Black ink, Christmas, Drawing, Joy, Life, metallic pens, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

#bandofsketchers prompt for Christmas day was Joy. I decided to sketch a sort of nativity scene. I wasn’t totally happy with it so added texture using the photodirector app on my phone. Merry Christmas x

Blank

Posted on December 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, blank, Drawing, Life, self portrait, Sketching, TiredLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Blank. A blank stare, my face in the mirror this morning. Still feeling like all the energy has been sucked out of me with this horrible cough. I used a tiny hand mirror so the face is distorted, it was like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together!

Life drawing filtered…

Posted on December 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital filter, Drawing, Filtered, Life drawing, negative filter, Picture, SketchingLeave a comment

Filtered from an original black and white drawing.

You can use digital filters to play with original drawings. It’s something I do occasionally to see how the image will look if it’s altered. There are so many different styles that you can use. So many apps out there that offer different filters.

I did this drawing a couple of months ago, I want to get out and do more, but the cost of living means things are getting a bit to expensive. I paint and draw because that’s what I have to do. I don’t necessarily think about selling things and making money. If and when anything happens to me there will be a house full of art that needs sorting out! ❤️

Elegant

Posted on December 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Clothes, Drawing, dress, sewing pattern, Sketching, skirt, topLeave a comment

Sunday’s #bandofsketchers prompt was elegant. My elegant idea was to draw a sewing pattern with a figure in a dress. I was inspired by 1970’s patterns which had elegant ladies sketched onto the sewing pattern cover. But my drawing does not really get the feel. It’s more like something I would have drawn as a teenager! I’m also showing my age. I’m sure I had a stripey skirt a bit like this, that flared out when you moved.

Thursdays prompt..

Posted on December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, Car, Drawing, Funny, Graffiti, Odd, Pink, Prompt, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Car. I had drawn an abstract pattern and could make out the shape of a car in it. Not exactly inspired, but I had fun. A bit like graffiti. I could imagine it spray painted on a concrete road bridge. It does look like it’s been in an accident. Still got to do today’s prompt.. Maybe tomorrow.

Sundays prompt

Posted on December 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Antarctica, Art, Bird, Drawing, Felt pens, Ice, Life, Nature, Penguin, Sea, Sketching, Swimming, Water3 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Antarctica. As penguins live in Antarctica I decided to draw one swimming in the sea. I did think about drawing them huddled together with chicks but they look so streamlined in the water. As usual a felt pen drawing.

Substantial

Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, burial site, dolmen, Drawing, Prompt, Sketching, standing stones, WikipediaLeave a comment

My #bandofsketchers prompt today was ‘substantial’, I can remember seeing photos of standing stones with a flat stone on top. This was done from memory. I didn’t even know what they were called so had to look it up. Felt pen drawing. Wikipedia says: dolmen (/ˈdɒlmɛn/) or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or “table”. Most date from the early Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound). Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance.^[1] In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone “skeleton”.

Mallaband-Brown

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