Digital art 8 years ago

Posted on April 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Facebook, left handed, Life, Memory, Profiles, right handed, Sketching, TimeLeave a comment

Another semi abstract digital drawing that popped upon my Facebook memories, long enough ago that I can’t remember the apps I used.

I’ve noticed that if I draw profiles of faces I usually draw them facing left. That might be because my right hand might obscure the drawing of they faced right. I did ask some other artists and concluded the left handed ones draw profiles facing right? But the sample size (3 or 4 people) is far too small to draw an accurate conclusion. I also draw horses heads and other animals facing left. I do wonder why.

Random art

Posted on December 9, 2023December 9, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Colourful, Drawing, Facebook memories, Memory, Photodirector, Profiles, Sketching4 Comments

An image of a punk woman came up on my Facebook memories today. I decided to draw another, older profile, thinking of the years that have passed since those days. I had done them both in the Artrage app. I then added texture and an overlay in photodirector. I’m trying to imagine it printed on old newspaper. Whatever I do, I have to draw.

Heads up

Posted on April 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cards, cover, deck of cards, Design, Experiment, Fun, heads, Profiles, Sketching, topsy turveyLeave a comment

I’m imagining the back of a playing card with a pattern on it like this? Two profiles facing each other, one turned upside down. It’s based on the idea of the two heads on the King, Queen and Jack cards. Are they designed to read from both top and bottom to make it easier for all players to read them?

I am not a graphic designer so I am not sure what criteria I would need to actually make these, but I’m having fun as I experiment again.. Hope you enjoy my scribbles x

Tired

Posted on April 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Hubby, Midnight, Night, Profiles, Shakespeare, Sketching, Sleepy, Time, TiredLeave a comment

Watching a film about Shakespeare after he had finished writing plays and returned home to Stratford on Avon. I drew my husband last night, and I’m struck by the similarity of their profiles. Now I’m tired, I want to watch the film (starring Kenneth Branagh) but I didn’t sleep at all last night. Its almost midnight and I need a rest. Goodnight world.

Portrait session

Posted on March 20, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fun, Ink pen, Ink roller, Portraits, Profiles, Sketching, soft pastels, weekly portrait session6 Comments

This weeks portraits using a little ink roller that normally is used for blotting out addresses to draw the basic structure, then soft pastels to colour them and a bit of black ink. Used hairspray to fix them.
The second set were played with in the Photodirector app I have, but I only put them through one filter.

Drawing a kiss

Posted on February 16, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digital art, Digital pencil sketch, Digitally doodling, Drawing, Faces, Fun, Kiss, Life, Profiles, Sketching2 Comments

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How.?

Noses get in the way

Mouths don’t fit together

Where do they look?

Do they close their eyes?

This turned out closer to a little peck on the cheek than a full blown kiss. Maybe it’s a first kiss. They are looking at each other quizzically. Is this OK? What is their back story? They are not children or teens. They are about the same age, young adults. Life is ahead of them, do they have a future together.? Can they trust each other. It might have been easier to draw real people, but I don’t think two models would stand around for an hour while I drew them. The same goes for photographs, I don’t know anyone who would want to let me do that.

Trying to imagine how to draw this was interesting, it’s not something I normally do. I used a drawing app and a stylus to do this and a pencil setting on 3 and 5 pixel widths in black, grey and white.

It’s a doodle, a sketch, a bit of fun.

Twins?

Posted on July 27, 2018 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Copies, Painting, Portraits, ProfilesLeave a comment

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One of the things about being a painter is being asked to do copies of your work. This was the case with these paintings. The original was painted by looking at the photo on my mobile phone. The second was copied from the first.

Question, can you tell which is the original? When I asked my husband he recognised the first one straight away ( although he had seen both of them being painted so that was not difficult).

It’s actually quite hard to copy a painting, especially as I do it free hand without drawing it out first. I think I didn’t make a bad job of it and I hope its new owner will like it.

Why this painting? Because I like both the colours and the challenge of painting her hat/snood? Trying to get the colours and details right. I hope you like it too….

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