Proserpine

Posted on September 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawings, Drawing, Images, Life, Portrait, Proserpine, Youdraw, Youdraw.comLeave a comment

Youdraw is a website that used to rely on Java script but after a while of being down its started up again. The area you draw on is only an inch by two inches in portrait orientation. You have a thick and thin black pen and a thick and thin eraser. But despite the limitations if you played with it you could thin the black lines or reduce the eraser marks. I did thousands of drawings there as Christine M-B. I’ve done just a few since it’s started back up. They are trying to collect 500,000 drawings. I copied a lot of my drawings and added colour to them.

Finding things to draw.

Posted on August 19, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Cafe, Drawing, Ink drawing, Life, Meeting, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

No Urban sketchers challenge today so I drew a friend (we met in a cafe to discuss art today), it’s not a brilliant because I got the eyes and nose too big. You can see the grain of the paper, it’s a handmade sketch book and the paper is thicker than I normally draw on. It’s grey because the day was very overcast. This was taken with a light on, but it didn’t illuminate the photo very well. It was good to draw a person again

I love the LOTR

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Aragorn, Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Digital portrait, Digital sketch, Drawing, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, Portrait4 Comments

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A drawing of Aragorn I did about ten years ago at a website called sketchfu. I loved drawing there. I miss it. But it closed. I really want to find a simple drawing application that I can do this kind of thing in again. Any suggestions? Everything these days seems to be on Google play. But that’s not how I want to draw. Yes I’m moaning about this again. I did a couple of months ago I think. I just want something where I can get the freedom to do what I want to do. Even if it is just drawing portraits of my favourite stars!

Moan over.

Backgrounds

Posted on July 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Backgrounds, College work, Decisions, Drawing, Ideas, Illustration, Landscape, Portrait, Sketching, VariationsLeave a comment

I’m working on a background to place my four images on fro my illustration course.

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I will be cutting this up into four. I think the cat and the man will be at the bottom and the tree and the house at the top. My idea is that it will be November fifth. Bonfire night. The man is looking for the cat, which is scared. The house and the tree are going to be at the top. I will then colour round the blobs in black so that it’s nighttime. I might use fine liner pens to make the background black but with texture…

Got to decide portrait or landscape? What do you think?

Portrait artist competition

Posted on May 10, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white, Drawing, Forty minute sketch, Pen and ink, Portrait, Portrait artist competition, Quick drawing, SketchLeave a comment

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The Sky portrait artist of the year competition is on. Its not something I would do, but I did a quick forty minute sketch of the sitter, Rankin, to see how I could do. Working with a 0.5 unipin ink pen. Not too bad a likeness. I think I’ve got his nose too long and his eyes are a bit small…. But it’s good to practice.

Portrait of hubby

Posted on April 27, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged A5 sketch, Art, Charcoal drawing, Grayson Perry Art Show, Hubby, Portrait, Reading, Sketch, Watching TVLeave a comment

He was watching a TV programme about portraits. Grayson Perry’s Art Show. So I decided to draw my hubby. He also reads a book at the same time. Talk about multi tasking.

I woukd like to do a portrait of him but he doesn’t keep still. Might have to find a photo.

Plans..

Start painting again.

Tidy up the house.

Try and do some relaxation.

Try and sleep better.

Take care of us both.

New USK Stoke challenge, day 2.

Posted on April 20, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Hubby, Ink, Kitchen, Life, Pencil, Portrait, Sketch, View, Window1 Comment

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Portrait, today’s #uskstoke challenge. Hubby in the kitchen, looking out the window. That’s some oo gauge track on the cupboard, soon after he went out to work on his train set. That’s why it’s a quick drawing. Looking forward to tomorrow’s challenge….

Digital drawing, Picard.

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Borg, Digital drawing, Digital sketch, Fun, Picard, Portrait, Sci fi, Star Trek2 Comments

I’m a big fan of Star Trek, and one of my favourite characters was Jean Luc Picard from the Next Generation series. I think the actor Patrick Stewart gives the part a great gravitas, although sometimes it can get a little weird.

I don’t have a favourite episode, but I do like the film where the Borg go back in time to an Earth where Zephram Cocheran is about to use warp drive for the first time. I can’t remember what it was called. Something like First Contact. But that’s the title of a Science Fiction film with Jodie Foster, about aliens contacting the Earth. Written by Carl Sagan, so I’m not sure.

This portrait was drawn on the sketchfu website that I used to work on. I think this is about seven years old. I will probably find more of them popping up on my Facebook memories.

Memory of Stephen Hawking

Posted on March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad rhyme, Digital art, Digital drawing, In memory, Life, Poem, Poetry, Portrait, Remembering, Sketch, TimeLeave a comment

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Is it two years since he died?

The world has turned,

and moved on in space,

his time line has ended,

gone away from this place.

Professor of physics,

thinker of time,

despite limitations,

he was free in his mind.

Living with illness,

he did more with his thoughts,

gave us new insights

into the Universe.

Looked at Blackholes,

from inside and out,

and Big Bang theory,

he knew such a lot.

Famous for explaining,

in book and in words,

the working of the universe,

in ‘A brief History of Time’.

Apologies for this poem, it is not well written or rhymed, but the image popped up on my memories page, and I was surprised at how much time had passed. I wonder what he would make of the world now?

Quick drawing

Posted on February 25, 2020 Posted in SketchingTagged Art, Drawing, Life, Picture, Portrait, Sketcher free, SketchingLeave a comment

I’m trying sketching in an app called sketcher free, it’s interesting drawing with textured pens, but it’s not easy to control. This is drawn on a tablet, so the format of wordpress is different in it, not wordpress classic. I’m not sure this is going to work. Anyway you only learn by having a go at things, if you don’t try you never know if you can do it. I’ve found the categories tab but I can’t find the sharing tab . So at least I’m doing something , still not feeling well.

Mallaband-Brown

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