Myself

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, brush, Canvas, Cat, Drawing, I, Illustration, Pencil, Poppies, Pottery, self portrait, Sketching, Willow pattern, xrayLeave a comment

I was looking for this drawing because there was a prompt on one of the Art groups I’m on that asked people to post #thisisme. I looked and looked for this and could not find it, and yet its on my WordPress media gallery! It was originally drawn for a college project ‘I’. As you can see it includes a self portrait, a canvas and pencil and brush, some poppies, an x-ray, books, an old pottery, a cat and finally the willow pattern on a plate. Each thing means something to me. It was drawn in 2020 so I have changed slightly since then. No bits have dropped off but I’m not as well as I was. Life eh? Gets to us all….

Teary eyed

Posted on April 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Life, Memory, Sadness, Sister, Sketching, Tears, Thought, Time, Twins8 Comments

I found this on my phone and once again remembered. Those thoughts came back again, sadness, guilt, loss. To lose a sister, it’s not right. When it’s a twin it might be worse. I don’t know. But as our birthday approaches, will I be OK? I somehow feel this should be both of us. I want to get to my next birthday, but the idea seems wrong. I will keep going but I’m not sure I will be happy on that day. And it’s not just me, it’s the rest of the family. I guess we will wait and see…. Sorry to post this but I couldn’t get the idea out of my mind.

Windy times

Posted on April 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Dandelion, Drawing, Felt pens, Seeds, Sketching, Wind2 Comments

#bandofsketchers prompt for Thursday was Wind. With the wind that’s been blowing lately if there are any dandelion heads they will all be bald by now! I tried to give the effect of wind by making the blue felt pen streaky across the background.

View

Posted on April 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bird, Colourful, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, Robin, Sketching, View2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was View. We have a Robin flitting round the garden. Rather than drawing a real landscape I tried to draw our bird table and vegetation. I sketched the Robin from a photo because it wouldn’t stay still long enough to photograph! Felt pen drawing.

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

Sundays prompt…

Posted on April 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Artrage, Colourful, Design, digitally drawn, Drawing, Drink, Prompt, Sketching5 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was drink. I’m finally trying to catch up with the prompts. This is a digital finger painting of a drink can. I used the Artrage app to draw it. I’ve adjusted the colours with Instagram because it looked quite dull.

Sleepy (insomnia diary)

Posted on April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Awake, Digital drawing, Drawing, Insomnia, insomnia diary, Sketching, Sleep, TiredLeave a comment

Five hours sleep, that’s not bad for me. I woke up twice in the night, and on the third gave up and got up. I feel so tired, I have things to do, an appointment to keep. Just had breakfast and I’m nodding off… I don’t know how many times I’ve dropped my phone on the floor because it’s slipped out of my hands. I sometimes manage to catch it, but my old phone had a cracked screen because I dropped it so often.

I think I’ll take a nap for an hour!

Dragon sketch…

Posted on April 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage, Colours, Digital art, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Glitter, Sketching, Sketching app, spiky2 Comments

A dragon drawing, I found a spiky line on the sketching app that really made this look interesting. I did my final major project at college on Dragons last year. So when I find a new way to represent them I like to experiment.

This is done in two apps, the initial line work was done on Sketcher app and then I exported it and opened it up in Artrage because the tools there are more flexible for colouring in and it also has metallic and Glitter options. I like it.

Roses

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Finger painting, Flowers, Fun, Life, Roses, Sketching2 Comments

Finger painted in the new app and then collaged. Is anyone getting bored by these digital drawings? I am not going to keep posting these. I will try and do something else unless I can create something a bit better. There are lots of pens and tools on this app and it is interesting, but it’s going to take a while to get used to it….

Twinned

Posted on April 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Gone, Grief, Learning, Loss, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sister, Sketching, Texture, Twin2 Comments

Sleep, memory, chases my mind.

I remember we were twins

When you were still here

Now your shape is gone

A space left in my landscape

So before I weep again

Bring me more dreams of you

Here beside me

Her next to me

Sister, twin.

Mallaband-Brown

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