Imagined aurora

Posted on October 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Aurora, Colours, Drawing, Green, Life, magnetic field, Memory, Pink, Sketching2 Comments

Still obsessed by not seeing the main auroras so I tried to imagine them and their spectacular colours. When you look at the incredible photos people have taken my rendition isn’t very exciting but I would have liked to see more than I did. Auroras are charged particles that follow the Earth’s magnetic field down to the poles. Without that magnetic shield we would be exposed to the radiation of space that would slowly deplete our atmosphere. Our magnetism is caused by Earth’s rotating molten core. Life on Earth is protected by it. Mars, a smaller planet has no magnetism and has lost its atmosphere because of this .

Playing with Artrage app

Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, Colours, Deleting, Digital drawing, Drawing, Life, Memory, Pattern, Sketching, symmetricalLeave a comment

Playing, digital drawing, trying to add colour and using symmetrical mirrors images.

I’ve had to delete several images again as I don’t have enough memory to keep all of them. If you find some of my blogs without a picture, that’s why!

Variations

Posted on October 1, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged ArtRage app, asymmetry, Drawing, Face, Image, Life, Mirrored, Sketching, Symmetry2 Comments

Playing with illustration ideas. If you mirror image half a picture you can create completely different faces. Asymmetry and Symmetry. Artrage app.

When you look at a real face it can be lopsided. Often one eye will be higher up than the other. The underlying skull can be lopsided too. This can be because one side of a brain may be more dominant than the other. I’m not sure of the actual physiological causes of this. I could find out, but just enjoyed experimenting with the original drawing. X

Fly

Posted on September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Acrylic paint, Art, Drawing, flies, Fly, Insects, Life, Sketching, Wings2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt was fly. I had to ask for a pallette on Saturday at the Orme Art Group because I’d forgotten mine. I splodge some paint on it, but had some left at the end of the day. I doodled wings and legs on it because the splodges looked like insects.. So I’m calling this “flies”!

Cartridges

Posted on September 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cartridge pen, Drawing, fountain pen, Ink, Memories, Old technology, Pen, Quink ink, WritingLeave a comment

The obligatory post on Facebook was asking if you knew what these were to prove you were a child of the 90’s. Why? I knew what these were before the 90’s!

Most people answered these were from fountain pens, but I disagreed, these were from cartridge pens.

A real fountain pen was one with a bulb in it that you squeezed to suck the ink up, or a lever on the side that squashed the inner bulb flat and when it was released pulled the ink in. I always used quink ink.

The cartridges were from cartridge pens, you just unscrewed the back half of the pen and swapped them out when they were empty… The only risk was if the cartridge leaked, the top end of the pen had a bit of metal that pierced the cartridge to allow the ink into the pen and nib. Sometimes you would end up with a pocket or pencil case full of ink if they leaked.

Digital “fire”

Posted on August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 7 years ago, ancient elements, Art, ArtRage oils app, Drawing, Fire, Memory, SketchingLeave a comment

A digital drawing I did 7 years ago from my Facebook memories. It was one of four, earth, wind, water and fire. Each was a face portraying the four ancient elements. I don’t know if I posted all of them on Facebook. Done in Artrage oils.

Shoes

Posted on August 25, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, pair, Prompt, Red, Shoes, Sketcher app, Sketching, stilettos, symmetricalLeave a comment

Another #bandofsketchers prompt was Shoes. Another digital drawing, I then put it through the collage app on my phone to make it a pair not a single shoe. I liked trying to get some reflections into the drawing.

Diamond prompt

Posted on August 25, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, diamond, Drawing, Life, Prompt, sketchbook app, Sketching, SymmetryLeave a comment

It’s about time I tried to join in again so here’s a digital drawing attempt of a diamond stone for the prompt diamond for #bandofsketchers.

Drawn in the Sketchbook app on my phone. I’ve missed several weeks of drawing and sketching. I just haven’t felt well enough to do it but I wanted to try. Watch out, more to come! It was interesting to try and a crystalline symmetry.

Terry

Posted on August 8, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Hat, Life, Pencil sketch, Portrait, Pub, Sketch, sketching group, TerryLeave a comment

Ten year old sketch. I used to like drawing people when we went out to the local pub, or to visit friends. It’s just an easy and quick way of keeping my hand in for drawing portraits.

There are groups you can join on the Internet to draw portraits of each other but I always forget its on until it’s over and I hardly go anywhere anymore.

Black and white

Posted on July 30, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white tree, catching up, Drawing, Life, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Black and white tree doodle I did a few weeks ago. I really want to go back to drawing #bandofsketchers prompts but life’s been a bit up and down lately. Black and white was today’s prompt.

Mallaband-Brown

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