Spent all day fighting PowerPoint!

Posted on May 9, 2021May 9, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Computer problems, Design, Drawing, Illustration, Learning, Need a rest, PowerPoint2 Comments

Today was hard. One of our college presentations has to have our illustrations in a PowerPoint. But my computer was playing up and instead of being able to use the tabs at the top of the page they were greyed out. So I started a new presentation, copied and pasted the work over… Then I had a break for lunch, and the new powerpoint would not work, but the old one would! So I shifted all the new work over and continued. I just finished it. I don’t think it’s well presented. PowerPoint gives you design options so each page looks good, but together it’s a bit of a mush mash.

I have got to finish off another piece of work and hand both in this week so I might be missing for a few days.

A is for

Posted on May 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A, Alphabet, Apple, Art, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Letters, Life, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Avocado?

No…

Aubergine

Aardvark?

Maybe

Alpha Centauri

Er…

August

Not yet…

Aniseptics

Not quite..

Autumn

Now that’s silly!

Argonaut

Yeah right

What then

Apple!

Spring collage

Posted on May 7, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black fine liner, Color, Design, Drawing, Experiment, Flowers, holographic paper, Illustration, post it notes4 Comments

Post it notes, holographic paper and fine liner pen.

Just a drawing of the tulips, I decided to use these colours to represent the spring and added the holographic paper as shards of pottery. You can make up all sorts of ideas in a collage…

A pile of….

Posted on May 6, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Coloured pencils, Drawing, Felt pens, pile of.., Prompt, Rings, SketchingLeave a comment

A pile of…. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. My rings on my little finger. I didn’t really wear any rings except my wedding ring and my mums that I inherited from her. But gradually my hubby has bought me more. I don’t want or need any more, this is enough of a pile of metal!

Coloured pencil, metallic pencil and felt pens.

Old digital doodle

Posted on May 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, eyebrows, Eyes, Face, Faces, Mouth, SketchingLeave a comment

Faces, I love them, portraits, doodles, there’s something that makes me draw them. Trying to get features right. I’ve always drawn eyes as well. I try to get them right, but I have a default eye or face, the way as I sketch I try and it from memory. Things like the size of the eyes. The eyelids, the shape of lips. The size and shape of eyebrows. Hairline. I find hair the most difficult. I need more practice, even after sixty years!

Something different

Posted on May 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colours, Design, Drawing, Experiment, ink liner pen, Metallic pencils, Pattern2 Comments

Had no idea what to do so drew the pattern on my trousers that is black and white but then added colour for today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. It’s not very good but it’s definitely different to what I’d normally do!

A few sketches

Posted on May 2, 2021May 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Chimney, dinner plate, Drawing, fine liner, Ink pen, Ornament, Sketching2 Comments

Learning to resize images to save file space. These are three sketches I’ve done over the last couple of days. The chimney at the Beehive pub, a dinner plate and an ornament.

I like drawing in black and white and using cross hatching to shade the images. I’m drawing every day and I don’t want to stop.

Sketch of Boatband

Posted on May 2, 2021May 3, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Beehive, Black and white drawing, Boatband, Drawing, fast sketch, Music, People, SketchingLeave a comment

Violin, accordion, guitar, also two others playing banjo and harmonica but I couldn’t fit them in.

Black and white drawing using ink fine liner. The Boatband this afternoon at the Beehive pub.

Mystery….

Posted on May 2, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, Drawing, Mask, Penkhull mystery play, river spirit, SketchingLeave a comment

Mask I painted for Penkhull Mystery play in 2018? It was for a river spirit character. She danced around the stage on the village green in flowing blue and green robes. This is the drawing I did for today’s, #bandofsketchers prompt.

Three minute cat

Posted on April 30, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Design, Drawing, Fun, Greek letters, Ink roller, Sketching, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Cat I drew at the start of march. I used an ink roller that you can blot out addresses with. I would have done more of these but the cat decided to play with the roller and I think it’s been knocked under a cupboard. I will have to try and find it. Sometimes the simplest experiments work well.

I noticed the letters on the roller are Greek, I don’t know why? If you tip it on one side you can achieve thin lines and also get some curves.

Mallaband-Brown

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