Spiralling

Posted on October 11, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, Drawing, Meditation, Memories, Pattern, Sadness, Shape, Sketching, Spiral, ThinkingLeave a comment

This drawing is another meditation. As I spiralled around drawing complex patterns I thought about aspects of mine and my siblings life. By thinking about her as I drew I could concentrate without getting too upset. I let myself think about how things could be different, and that she may have been spared. I don’t know if it was a comfort but I had been watching a programme about quantum entanglement and the possible multiverse. I am not an astrophysicist and I have no idea if this theory would have any effect on variations of people/places/times, but it gave me a little strange comfort.

Angles

Posted on October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Angles, Art, Doodling, Drawing, Graffiti, graffiti style, grunge, metallic pens, Pastels, Sketching, TextureLeave a comment

A graffiti like image that started as a doodle with pastel and metallic pens. The scratches and textures were created using the photodirector app on my phone. Trying to create something that looks like it could have been painted on a wall and weathered over time.

Donkeys

Posted on October 10, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Donkey, Drawing, drawing in food, Drink, Food, Galloping, Horses, Life, Mark making, Silly, Sketching2 Comments

Does anyone else draw donkeys around the edge of their hot chocolate cup? Asking for myself!

I have to make marks. I think I would have been a cave painter.

Pixel power

Posted on October 9, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, graphic novel style, Life, pixelated drawing, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

I just sketched this closeup using a pen on a sketching app that can create pixelated lines. I used dark gray and black that gives a little more depth than just one shade. I think it vaguely reminds me of a graphic novel sort of style. I do like trying out digital sketching ideas.

Hor-eye-zone

Posted on October 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, Colours, Drawing, Eye, Felt pen, Horizon, iris, Pattern, pupil, Sketching, sunburst, SunsetLeave a comment

Playing with colours and the image of an eye /sunset. Felt pen and black ink pen. I don’t quite know what I was doing with it, but it’s interesting. It started out as just an iris but I got a bit carried away.

Etch-a-sketch

Posted on October 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Buttons, Curves, Drawing, Etch-a-sketch, Favourite, fond memory, History, Memory, Sketching, ToyLeave a comment

Who remembers these? I loved mine and by twirling both buttons together I found I could draw curves! I used to draw mazes. I remember turning it over and the shake of the silver dust as it covered the trace of your sketch. Also the twanging of what might have been elastic bands moving a stylus? Against the screen. It was just a tiny dot. A bit like a computer cursor! I’d love to get one again!

Meditation finished

Posted on October 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, black fine liner pen, Curves, Drawing, Meditation, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

Curves filled in with lines, then the blank spaces walled off with black. I think it looks a bit like a script but it’s unintentional. I left the blanks because it making the patterns stand out more. I could add more black lines or adding colour to it, but for now I’m calling it finished.

Mirror

Posted on October 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Life, Mirror, Mirrored, Reflection, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was mirror. I drew a face reflected in a jug of liquid, sitting on a chequered table cloth. After all anything reflective can be a mirror. I didn’t add the person whose face is reflected. Just being a bit spooky.

Spirograph

Posted on October 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memories, Patterns, Sketching, Spirals, Spirograph3 Comments

Does anyone remember this. It came with pins to hold the circles down that you drew around. You had to use thick card board to pin into otherwise as you used the small circles the paper would slip. Over the years I did hundreds of these patterns, I could almost draw them without the plastic circles and getting pens to fit in the little holes. I liked some patterns more than others. Maybe it explains my obsession with them now?

Animated?

Posted on October 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Animal, animate, animation, Art, Canter, Drawing, Gallop, Horse, Life, Movement, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was animate. I tried to work out how a horse runs and if I could try and draw overlapping images of them. I know there are books you can get that show you how to do animations but I just did this quickly without any reference. I’ve always enjoyed trying to draw horses, I have a basic idea of how they look. X

Mallaband-Brown

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