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.

Cats

Posted on October 18, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white drawing, Cats, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Life, Play, Poem, Poetry, Sketch book, SketchingLeave a comment

Cats seem to be a theme in my sketchbook at the moment.

I love cats

Their eyes

Their whiskers

The shapes they make

The fun they create

Bouncing and pouncing

Bounding and jumping

Faces all furry

Twisting and whirling

They cheer my soul!

Digital again

Posted on September 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Blur, Colour, Drawing, Faces, Flood fill, Fun, Lines, Playing, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

An ArtRage background with added drawing on top. This is a sketching app that has some basic tools that are different to the ArtRage app. I used lines, a flood fill and a blurring tool to create this. I like combining different apps, you don’t know what you can get till you try.

Splodges into heads

Posted on June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on paper, Art, Faces, heads, Images, Pareidolia, Real life, Sketching, SplodgesLeave a comment

Paint splodges turned into heads. First I saw an eye, then a nose. An open mouth and teeth. I just like looking for things. I was always good at spotting things on those spot the difference cartoons in magazines and newspapers.

I’m good at navigation too and I think that’s the same kind of thing- pattern recognition. I think it’s something humans can practice. Maybe digital and social media is a bad thing if it does not help you interact with the real world.

Symmetry

Posted on June 14, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, Cat, Clouds, Eyes, Faces, Fun, Green, Nose, Pattern, Sky, SymmetryLeave a comment

The things I can see when I add symmetry. A large green nose? Frowning eyes? A butterfly, a cats face? Two faces in profile looking downwards. There’s probably more that you can see too. Human eyes are always looking for patterns, shapes, looking out for monsters or problems. I guess it depends where you place the connection between the two sides. You can get more or less pattern by changing the centre line. I think there is also a 3d feeling because of where the hedge in the center is positioned.

Clematis faces

Posted on May 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clematis, Duplicated, Faces, Flowers, horns, Looking, Pareidolia, Patterns, Photo, spikes2 Comments

If you duplicate or mirror an image, then turn it on its side you can get some quite interesting images. This was clematis growing along a fence, but something magical happens when you add some bilateral symmetry. The fence spikes look like goats or sheeps horns. There is something that looks like eyes and if you look closely you might see faces? This is an example of my Pareidolia. I see faces in a lot of patterns.

Plant monster

Posted on April 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colour, Faces, Fun, Green, Mirrored, Orange, Pareidolia, Pattern, Photo, Tipped, turned2 Comments

Squint and see faces, patterns, monsters. Tipped over doubled image. The colours help make it vibrant and interesting. Plant life can be amazing.

And then there’s faces

Posted on April 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Layout app, Life, Pattern, Sketching appLeave a comment

Digital drawing I did six years ago. I think in the sketcher free app and then I used the layout app on my phone. I’ve tried several art apps but I can’t keep all of them on my phone because I still haven’t increased the memory on it. I don’t want to lose my images if they get deleted by accident. I could imagine this being a tapestry or embroidery.

I see sheep!

Posted on April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Drink, Faces, Fun, Hot chocolate, Humour, Life, Pareidolia, Pattern, Shapes, Sheep, SillyLeave a comment

Pareidolia, the ability to see creatures in patterns. This was a drink of hot chocolate that I had mirrored to make a pattern. The two shapes in the white area look like annoyed sheeps heads to me. I’m funny like that!

Past times

Posted on March 31, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 2004, Art, College, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Life, Memories, muscle memory, Portrait, Sketching6 Comments

Sketches from 2004. The main drawing was a friend and I think the other two were practice faces. I draw faces less now. I try and draw them convincingly but I think you can get tied down into the same lines, the same shapes. It’s hard to break through muscle memory when you have drawn and painted for more than fifty years! I must say I owe a debt to my mom who let me go to college instead of insisting I got a job at the end of my time at school. That time was instrumental in making me the artist I am! X

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