Old cartoon

Posted on January 8, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cartoon, Cat, Fun, Life, Play, Sketching, splashes, Watercolour sketch, WetLeave a comment

I painted this little cartoon years ago. Don’t remember the date but probably 20 years? I think I’d splashed drips of watercolour onto the paper and the cat was a way of using the paper up and not wasting it. Photo taken late afternoon with a dim sidelight on. I could have waited till tomorrow but I wanted to share.

I have a friend that hates cats. I wish I could explain how I love them. Their character, their expressions, their true friendship when you get to know them. They seem aloof, but once you know them they are not…. And they don’t seem to hate rain. I’m often soaked when they come in from a rain shower, but I thought this looked funny. X

Dragon hide

Posted on January 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dragon, Experiment, Fire, Fun, Hide, Scales, Sketching, Skin, smaug, the Hobbit, ThinkingLeave a comment

What does a dragon need to stay safe? If you read The Hobbit, Smaug the dragon was killed by an arrow that pierced a soft area in his skin under his arm. Dragons have to have a strong skin..

So what would it look like? I’ve been experimenting with how big the scales would be. I guess they would have to be like an alligator or crocodile skin, rather than a lizard or snake whose scales seem smaller or softer. The dragon would need fire retardant scales to prevent charring or burning either around its mouth when it is fire breathing or on the rest of its body. Maybe male dragons duel in short fights, if they were to attack each others wings they would need to be strong. Dragons wings always look vulnerable. The skin is stretched between bony fingers. Surely that could easily be holed if it were not well maintained. Lots to consider.

Abstraction, scales

Posted on January 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Black and white drawing, Black ink, Colour, Drawing, Flood fill, Scales, SketchingLeave a comment

This started as a black and white line drawing but then I played with it by playing with the texture then using a flood fill tool to add colour. I finally put it through an Instagram filter to heighten the colours. Just a little abstract pattern.

Glasses

Posted on January 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Fun, Glass, Glasses, Sight, Sketching, Vision2 Comments

#bandofsketchers… For todays prompt. I took my glasses off to draw this old pair. Then I decided to add the bottom of a small glass as the prompt is ‘glasses’. Then I tried to pick the drawing up because I thought these were my current pair!

Exposed

Posted on January 4, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Belly rub, Black and white cat, Black ink, Cat, Drawing, Life, Sketching, Tuxedo cat2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was exposed. I did this fine line black pen drawing. My cat exposing her belly for a rub. Except she moved so I partly used an image off the Internet to get the legs in the right positions. I hope I caught her cheeky personality.

Faded..

Posted on January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Blue, blue Jeans, Drawing, faded jeans, Jeans, Prompt, Sketching2 Comments

Today’s (Sundays) #bandofsketchers prompt was faded.

Faded jeans… I only have a limited pallette I’m working with. It gives me more of a challenge. I was also drawing in a darkened room as hubby was watching TV so it was hard to see the folds and crumples in them.

Two clicks and a crop

Posted on December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged App, Art, Digital manipulation, grunge, murmuration, Photodirector, Sketching, Style, Sunset, TextureLeave a comment

My earlier ‘hope’ drawing with one lot of added texture, a smudge of gundge, then cropped to cut out my writing at the top. It’s amazing how quickly you can change something by just altering them slightly in an app. In this case I used photodirector. It’s OK, some of the stuff on it is too advanced for what I want, but I just use the simple stuff that’s free. What I don’t like is how a lot of art sites charge a monthly fee instead of letting you buy a package like you could in the past. Over time it adds up, and I can’t afford that.

Hope….

Posted on December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Fun, Hope, murmuration, Pandora, Pointellist, Prompt, Sketching, starlingsLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. What to draw for hope? I saw the sunset yesterday and hoped one day I would see a beautiful starling murmuration. But as I drew it I also thought of the Greek myth of Pandora and her accidentally releasing all the ills into the world until only one thing was left… Hope.

I wonder if the name Pandora is linked with the word Pandemic? As with many myths it seems like a woman always gets blamed for causing the trouble! By the way it took over an hour to add all the dots!

Have a great and safe 2022! X

Insomniac again

Posted on December 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Insomnia, Life, Monarch of the Glen, Sketching, Sleeping, Tired, TVLeave a comment

When you don’t sleep well it’s easy to be drawn into watching TV. The last few nights have been horrendous. I’ve not got to sleep until 5 or 6am. Then sometimes there is a programme I really want to watch. Tonight there are four hour long episodes of Monarch of the Glen. It was a series I watched twenty years ago and I haven’t seen repeats of it. The pleasure of watching it outweighs the sleep I am missing. But maybe one day I will get back to sleeping well.

Cat washing

Posted on December 28, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Hatching, Shading, Sketching, Sleep, WashingLeave a comment

The problem with drawing cats from life is that they move! They get into interesting positions and shapes then a second later a different leg is up in the air or they have turned round, head up, down, twisted. Eyes open, eyes closed. The trick is to outline the drawing first, filling in the black area afterwards. This was a five minute sketch. Late night, the cat is settling down for a sleep. I do try and draw from memory but it doesn’t always work, especially with cats!

Mallaband-Brown

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