Myth

Posted on January 16, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Dragon, Drawing, Fun, Life, Myth, Pens, Silly, Sketching, SundayLeave a comment

Sunday’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Myth. Oh what to do? I am in love with gryphons, unicorns, winged horses and many other things, but as my most recent study was about dragons, I chose to draw one. I started out with three pens held together to try and create a triple image, but the middle pen had dried out. So I finished off with two. If you look carefully you can see the outline of two other eyes below the ones I have outlined. Then I coloured it in with metallic felt pens. I might do more to it but this is good enough as a sketch.

Things to do

Posted on January 14, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital manipulation, Dozing, Filter, napping, Photodirector, Sketching, Sleep, TiredLeave a comment

Tired, didn’t sleep last night so had several naps this afternoon and evening. I saw the start and end of one film, but nothing in between. My eyes have kept closing, while I’ve been dozing. But I have lots of things to do. I must get better and find the time to get them done. Stupid chest infection.

I digitally manipulated the previous grumpy drawing to try and make it look sad.

Cross eyed

Posted on January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Black ink fine line pen, Drawing, Eyes, Felt pens, journalist, Lazy, Newspaper, no questions asked, Sketching2 Comments

A felt pen and black ink doodle/sketch of different eyes. I found it hard to blend the colours of the pens because they dry quickly so you have to try and shade in thin layers and build them up. It’s only a small drawing and blowing it up a bit really shows up the blotchiness. Mind you when I paint I do find it hard to blend colours. I think that’s because I use acrylics which dry very fast as opposed to oils that can take a very long time to dry. I don’t do photorealism but I once had the local newspaper art critic talk about one of my paintings in his report about a local exhibition. He said if I wanted to be a photo realist I should try harder! I was insulted because a) I was not trying to be one and b) he didn’t ask me what my style was! I think it was lazy journalism. Filling up a couple of lines. But he didn’t see how much it upset me. And I still feel it, even years later!

Funny face

Posted on January 13, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Face, fun-day, Games, Memories, pulling a face, School, Sketching, sports field, TimeLeave a comment

When I drew a very grumpy picture of myself today I remembered how much I used to like pulling faces. Then a memory came back to me… I suddenly remembered that I won the funny face competition and my twin won the funny walk competition at a school sports-fun day one year. We won a pound and a half of full cream chocolate! I think we must have practiced a lot, but I’m not sure I knew that this was what the prize was.

It’s funny because I can remember the scene as if it was yesterday now. A group of children on the sports field and kids taking it in turn to make the others laugh. Whoever had the idea was a genius, much more fun than running races. No doubt influenced by ‘Month Pythons Flying Circus’ TV show which was on at the time. (Which I wasn’t allowed to watch because it was too ‘rude).

Grumpy!

Posted on January 12, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Grumpy, Life, self portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was grumpy. I had two reasons to be grumpy, a big bill, and still feeling ill. So I pulled this awful face (I look disgusted!) and drew this miserable looking self portrait! I really hope I don’t usually look like this. I’ve already deleted the photo I drew it from.

Musical instruments

Posted on January 10, 2023January 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Music, Prompt, Recorder, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was musical instruments, I drew a recorder. I have a plastic one, but when I was a kid I had a lovely wooden one. The wood was golden and had an amazing grain to it. I’ve tried to remember how it looked. I didn’t do much music as a child and it was one of my sisters that tried to learn more complicated instruments such as the violin.

Close-up

Posted on January 10, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Close up, Cloth, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Life, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was close-up. I decided to try and draw a close-up of some plaid cloth. I used a digital filter from photodirector to add some texture. I think it makes it look more interesting.

Doodles

Posted on January 9, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink pen, Creativity, Design, Doodles, Drawing, Feelings, Felt pens, Life, Poem, Poetry, Sketching5 Comments

Sometimes my pen drifts

Across the paper

Black pen and colour

Shading over the lines

Faces and a donkey?

Why not play

Create a design

Learn and develop

Experience and experiment.

Quick

Posted on January 8, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, clue, crossword, crossword clues, Drawing, Life, quick crossword, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Clue. I only just did this one. I like trying to do the New Scientist Magazine Quick Crossword. I’d like the backgrounds of crosswords to be coloured, but the ones I try and do are always black and white.

Abstract face

Posted on January 7, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract face, Apps, Art, Blogging, Digital art, Filters, Memory, self portrait, Sketching, WordPressLeave a comment

Abstract self portrait. I can’t remember how I got to this point. It’s got to be a couple of years since I created this. I’ve got an idea that I used various filters but which ones? My WordPress Media library has some odd images in it and every so often I have to edit them and delete some of them because my memory on WordPress is 99.8% full. I can’t afford to pay more for my blog page so it’s a case of managing what I have.

Saying that, does anyone know what else I can do? I don’t want to delete blog posts, I don’t have the time or the energy to do it. What I am doing is to delete some of the images as they take up more space on my site. What do people think?

Mallaband-Brown

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