Swallow falls a year ago

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Colourful, Felt pens, old #bandofsketchers prompt, Old drawing, Sketching, Snowdonia, swallow fallsLeave a comment

I don’t remember when we actually visited Swallowfalls, it’s in Wales near Capel Curig. The water flows off the Snowdonia range. I think I drew this from an old photo. It’s one of my felt pen drawings that I do with #bandofsketchers. This was drawn in May 2022, when we were more restricted in where we could go and I was being so cautious I drew from references more than real life (I still limit where we go). I wish I was up to travelling over there. Wales is a wonderful, picturesque, friendly country. Visit if you can X

Spring sketch

Posted on April 5, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Daffodils, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, Sketching4 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Spring. My sister bought me a couple of bunches of daffodils at the weekend. It’s wet outside so I decided to draw them. Close up and using felt pens decided to make it slightly abstract.

Sunset

Posted on April 3, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colourful, Drawing, Felt pens, Holiday, Life, Sketching, sunpillar, SunsetLeave a comment

Sunset was Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt. As we arrived at our holiday destination one summer I was amazed to see what appeared to be a tall beam of sunshine above the setting sun. I found out later that it was a sun pillar. I think its a phenomenon where sunlight reflects off ice crystals in the sky? A bit like sun dogs. Can’t find the photo to work off so tried to remember it…

Sketch set

Posted on April 2, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Drawing, Life, pad Thai, Portraits, red curry, Sawadee Thai taste, Sketching, Stoke, Thai foodLeave a comment

Went for a meal out at Sawadee Thai taste in Stoke tonight. While we were there I decided to sketch us. I had to imagine my self portrait, and they are all a bit scruffy as I just drew on a bit of old card I had in my bag, each sketch took a couple of minutes. Apple is the Thai lady that runs the restaurant.

The food was delicious, we had red curry with sticky rice and some pad Thai noodles. Not expensive and good company.

Seclusion

Posted on March 31, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Bang!, Colourful, Design, Drawing, Graffiti, Life, Obsessed, Phone, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was seclusion. I was secluded for about 20 hours when my phone battery started to overheat. I took it to the phone shop but it was closed, but I went back later and got a replacement. The pattern on this is meant to be a design for a phone case. Just taking something positive out of a difficult day x

Spooky Stonehenge

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Salisbury Plain, silhouettes, Sketching, Spooky, Stonehenge2 Comments

I did a digital drawing of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plane ages ago and I’ve tried to add a misty, foggy, mysterious effect over the top of the original drawing. Because I drew it in layers, the image in the bottom layer shows the stones and this stayed in place so I could distort the upper two layers of black that I had added and then a blueish grey with a smudging tool. The overall effect is slightly spooky, I could imagine shadowy figures or spooky silhouettes detaching themselves from the stones and moving towards anyone visiting the ancient site. What ghosts of druids reside there?

Digital doodles

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Design, Digital art, Digital drawing, Fun, Layout app, Pattern, Photodirector, Sketching3 Comments

Spring and flower themed digital doodles using ArtRage oils. Then edited in Photodirector for one of the four images and layout app to create symmetry for all four. Finally I stitched them together in layout and have published the variations on my Instagram account. I could imagine this as a woollen blanket.

Rose doodle

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digitally manipulated, Drawing, Felt pens, Filtered, Life, Photodirector, Rose, SketchingLeave a comment

Gold felt pen doodle coloured in with more pens then filtered through photodirector. Made up of dashes, squiggles and dots. I do like playing with images. I tend to use the same filters quite frequently. I may try variations on a theme. I added the thorns afterwards. I decided to leave a white background rather than adding another colour to it. Felt pen sketch.

David

Posted on March 29, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, David, Drawing, Felt pens, Michealangelo, Renaissance, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was renaissance. Since the statue of David by Michealangelo has been in the news lately I thought I would try and draw his head. I really need to get some new felt pens or fish my watercolour paints out of wherever they are hiding.

Digital drawing

Posted on March 28, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, changed my life, conference, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1889, Digital drawing, Drawing, drawing tablet, Life, new skills, Sketching1 Comment

How has technology changed your job?

When I first started using technology in art it was at a conference and there was a stand with a digital drawing screen. It was a large flat screen with a stylus attached with a wire. There was a limited pallette and you drew by picking brush sizes and colours. I have always been an artist, but because it was a science based conference no one knew. I started drawing a horse I think and the people on the stand were surprised by what I could do. But I was hooked. As soon as I could get a small drawing tablet I did. I even had a digital drawing I printed off exhibited in a local Open Exhibition because it was not something they had seen before. Since then I’ve got bigger and better tablets, drawing with styluses attached with wires and then wireless ones. Now you can draw on a phone screen with your fingers. I’m glad I went to that conference.

Mallaband-Brown

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