Life drawing filtered…

Posted on December 21, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital filter, Drawing, Filtered, Life drawing, negative filter, Picture, SketchingLeave a comment

Filtered from an original black and white drawing.

You can use digital filters to play with original drawings. It’s something I do occasionally to see how the image will look if it’s altered. There are so many different styles that you can use. So many apps out there that offer different filters.

I did this drawing a couple of months ago, I want to get out and do more, but the cost of living means things are getting a bit to expensive. I paint and draw because that’s what I have to do. I don’t necessarily think about selling things and making money. If and when anything happens to me there will be a house full of art that needs sorting out! ❤️

Elegant

Posted on December 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Clothes, Drawing, dress, sewing pattern, Sketching, skirt, topLeave a comment

Sunday’s #bandofsketchers prompt was elegant. My elegant idea was to draw a sewing pattern with a figure in a dress. I was inspired by 1970’s patterns which had elegant ladies sketched onto the sewing pattern cover. But my drawing does not really get the feel. It’s more like something I would have drawn as a teenager! I’m also showing my age. I’m sure I had a stripey skirt a bit like this, that flared out when you moved.

Thursdays prompt..

Posted on December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Abstract, Art, Car, Drawing, Funny, Graffiti, Odd, Pink, Prompt, Silly, SketchingLeave a comment

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Car. I had drawn an abstract pattern and could make out the shape of a car in it. Not exactly inspired, but I had fun. A bit like graffiti. I could imagine it spray painted on a concrete road bridge. It does look like it’s been in an accident. Still got to do today’s prompt.. Maybe tomorrow.

Falling behind..

Posted on December 18, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, architect, Art, catching up, Europe, Gaudi, Idea, inspired by, Patterns, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Europe. I had no idea what to do for this. I do love Gaudi the architect and I tried to channel the sort of colours and patterns he uses, but it’s all imagined and I have not used any reference.

Sundays prompt

Posted on December 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Antarctica, Art, Bird, Drawing, Felt pens, Ice, Life, Nature, Penguin, Sea, Sketching, Swimming, Water3 Comments

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was Antarctica. As penguins live in Antarctica I decided to draw one swimming in the sea. I did think about drawing them huddled together with chicks but they look so streamlined in the water. As usual a felt pen drawing.

Substantial

Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, burial site, dolmen, Drawing, Prompt, Sketching, standing stones, WikipediaLeave a comment

My #bandofsketchers prompt today was ‘substantial’, I can remember seeing photos of standing stones with a flat stone on top. This was done from memory. I didn’t even know what they were called so had to look it up. Felt pen drawing. Wikipedia says: dolmen (/ˈdɒlmɛn/) or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or “table”. Most date from the early Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound). Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance.^[1] In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone “skeleton”.

Defence

Posted on December 6, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Chess, defence, Drawing, Felt pens, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

I can’t spell Sicilian…. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was defence. I didn’t want to draw an army or war image, so I looked at chess. I don’t know how the Sicilian defence works but it seemed like a good idea. Just a felt pen drawing.

Vow

Posted on December 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Felt pens, gold rings, lace, marriage, Patterns, Sketching, Vow2 Comments

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Vow. Hard one to do, I didn’t want to draw a couple at a marriage do I drew two gold rings and adapted a pattern I’d been drawing to try and make it look like lacework. I only spent about ten minutes on the rings. Felt pen drawing again using some metallic pens.

Digital earth and moon

Posted on December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue and white, Collaboration, Digital drawing, digital tablet, Draw, Earth, Moon, Sketchfu, Sketching, Sky, SpaceLeave a comment

This was an old drawing I did online a few years ago. It was at the website called Sketchfu (closed about five years ago). I’ve always loved astronomy and this was a good challenge to try and get a reasonably accurate drawing using very simple tools. The hardest thing was getting the image blurred enough to feel realistic. Colours were chosen from a couple of hundred choices. There were only five sized circular pens and a slider to alter the opacity. Plus an eraser to clear away mistakes. You could add layers so you could show your progress, or do a collaboration with other artists, the only real problem was the images took ages to load.

Abstract Christmas tree?

Posted on December 2, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, Digital art, Digital manipulation, Felt pens, Fine Art, Fun, Life, SketchingLeave a comment

Art is complex, it can mean anything. Art can be good and bad, but one person’s good art is something someone else might loathe. I just edited this image to crop a smaller area and add a circular frame. Now I look at it I can see a series of stacked triangles that look like graffiti. It could represent a Christmas tree, or a forest, or rain on a window distorting an image outside it. It could also be a Christmas tree bauble. The digital filter distorts my linework, and adds textures and pattern to my drawing. The colours were originally felt pens but they to have been altered by the digital filters.

Mallaband-Brown

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