Digital urban sketch

Posted on April 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Artrage, Artrage oils, Drawing, Footwear, New challenge, Shoes, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

Today’s challenge for usk Stoke was to draw my favourite footwear.

I don’t own many pairs of shoes. I’ve got these banana yellow ones, but I haven’t worn them in yet.

This drawing was done on an app called ArtRage. I got the pro version last year as a birthday present.

The drawing is difficult because the colours mix on screen and it’s a bit like painting in liquid butter with a stick, as I was using a stylus. I found getting the size of pens, pencils, or brushes hard, as the size goes from very small, to smallish!

Anyway after faffing about for a while I managed to get a reasonable representation.

Cupboard, USK S-O-T challenge day 6.

Posted on April 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Crockery, Cupboard, Cups, Drawing, Glitter, Pottery, Sketching, Staffordshire, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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DAY 6 in the new Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent challenge. I used gold glitter and purple pen to cheers this up. I should have let the glitter paint dry. It clogged up my 0.5 ink pen. I used permanent black and purple pens to draw and add shade…. Noticed I’ve got a lot of egg cups and extra mugs tucked away in there.

“Cupboard” isn’t the most inspiring subject, so instead of drawing cans I decided to draw crockery, pots, glasses and egg cups.
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Spocks

Posted on April 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Layout app, Memories, Pattern, Playing, Sketching, SpockLeave a comment

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Funny what pops up on Facebook memories. I don’t exactly remember when I did this, or how. I know how I duplicated it.. But I don’t remember the process of getting to there. I think this is a few years old. It was a quirky idea. Drawing Spock. It must have been when one of the new series of Star Trek films came out?

Man-cave

Posted on April 23, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Challenge, Day 5, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Lockdown, Man cave, Mess, Pasting tables, Shed, Sketching, Toy trains, Train, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

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Urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent day 5, draw inside your shed or garage.

Where do I start. In my case our shed has had all the tools expelled to the outer darkness of our little shed. Instead some rickety pasting tables have been put up. The tops are covered with boxes, lengths of train track, bits of trains, engines, train trucks, stuff…. Plus he’s got different controllers to send power through the tracks. The pasting tables are so warped it’s like the trains are running through hills!

Then he’s got his bike bits, wheels, and a box that the stray cat sleeps in, which is surrounded with bags of straw… I’m allowed in as long as I don’t mess with anything… In the meantime he wants to upgrade things when the lockdown is over. We are going to buy some better tables. Exciting eh?

Fairy drawing

Posted on April 23, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Fairy, Fun, Life, Sketch, Sketching, Wire fairyLeave a comment

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I drew this last night. I interpreted my wire fairy as a real one (with embellishments). I wanted to get the picture to look like one of those adult colouring books. I drew the outlines first with a thin black pen, then I shaded it in with spectrum noir coloured metallic pencil crayons. I finally outlined the fairy with a slightly thicker and darker black ink pen. Drawn in a Windsor and Newton heavy weight case bound sketchbook. A5 size.

Day four of the new challenge.

Posted on April 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Breakfast, Challenge, Drawing, Food, Fun, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trentLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge was breakfast. Unfortunately I’m setting the challenges and I didn’t get up till almost noon! When I finally did break my fast it was two pm. Apologies to any vegetarians out there. But I’ve got to say bacon butties really taste nice when you are hungry.

My drawing was with a black felt pen, then coloured in with blue, red, brown, yellow, green and purple felt pens. The USK challenge is getting a few participants, its enjoyable to draw every day and having set themes makes you think!

New challenge with Stoke USK

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Cat, Drawing, Local to me, Neighbours, New challenge, Sketch, Sketching, Urban SketchersLeave a comment

_20200419_190902 We all agreed after completing the thirty day challenge that London Urban Sketchers had put together that we would like to continue. We have a new list of about 37 challenges, which may well see us out of the lockdown.

Today’s challenge was ‘local to you’.

I was going to draw all the lovely terraces up the hill behind us. But I failed to realise how much next doors bushes have grown. So this is the cat and the 70’s houses behind us. Then someone walked into the bedroom opposite. It was like a scene from the film ‘rear window’ so I retreated!

I have the list somewhere. I’m setting the daily challenges. A few people have joined in so far.

Liverpool metropolitan cathedral.

Posted on April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Colour, Curves, Drawing, Lines, Liverpool metropolitan cathedral, Pattern, Sketching, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent, ZoomLeave a comment

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A sketch of the inside of the Liverpool metropolitan cathedral. This is the Catholic one. There is also an Anglican one. This was our Saturday ‘sketch out’ with urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent.

We did this on Zoom again, although I couldn’t remember how to log on. So although I could see people talking and hear them I could not interact. I decided to sketch it quickly as I was late to the conversation. I tried using blocks of strong colour. The lighting in the cathedral is bright and colourful. This image was taken off Google maps as we are not allowed to visit these places yet.

Day thirty

Posted on April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #uskstoke, Art, Blogging, Drawing, Ending, Fun, Humour, Life, Sketching, Thirty day challenge, Urban sketchers Stoke on trent2 Comments

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The urban sketchers challenge (Stoke-on-Trent) has just finished. We had to do quick three minute sketches each hour to show how our day had gone. I didn’t see the days challenge until just after two, because I got up late. Its amazing how fast an hour goes when you have to document it. And my day was more varied than I thought it would be considering I didn’t do any gardening today. I finished at midnight. Tomorrow we are doing a sketch through Zoom, the meeting app, of Liverpool cathedral. I might try and do a drawing of it. If I get up in time!

Digital art

Posted on April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amy Winehouse, Digital art, Drawing, Fun, Galaxy, Illustration, Pattern, Sketchfu, SketchingLeave a comment

About seven years ago I was doing digital drawings regularly at a website called sketchfu which closed down. I had a notification on my Facebook page because my drawing of Amy Winehouse popped up on my memories. I thought I would put some of these on here.

These were drawn with simple tools, no layers or filters. Just five different sized pens, a colour picker, a pallette, an eraser and opacity and transparency options. I’m sad it closed because it was somewhere I could share my art and enjoy the community of fellow artists.

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