Quick sketches (life drawings)

Posted on July 2, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Fine Art, ink fine line pen, Life drawing, Model, Pencil crayons, Sketching4 Comments

Warning contains nudity.

A ten minute and fifteen minute sketch I recently completed at a life drawing group a few weeks ago. Looking at them now I can see that the details are not correct, but not too bad. The leg lengths on the second sketch are definitely too short. You can see how I tried to extend them a bit. When you draw a figure it’s a good idea to work out where to place the head. If you are too low on the page you run the risk of losing the lower half of the figure as in the first, ten minute sketch. But these were swift sketches, drawn on pale brown Ingres paper which is suitable for the mid tones then drawn in black ink fine line pen and shaded with pencil crayons.

One thing I hate with life studies is when artists leave the head off. Especially when it’s a female study. To me, they may not be able to draw facial features, but by leaving the head off it makes the figure look more like a slab of meat, disturbing and disrespectful of the female model.

Tour time

Posted on July 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Doodle, Drawing, endurance, Sketching, three weeks, Tour de France, TV coverage, Yellow JerseyLeave a comment

Over the next three weeks the Tour de France is taking place. Its an annual bike race like the Giro D’Italia or the Vuelta d’Espania and on a slightly smaller scale the Tour of Britain.

These bike races challenge cyclists of the world to race their way round mountains and plains, to fight their way through crowds and over gruelling roads. In heavy rain, even snow, or sweltering heat.

So many well known names in the cycling world have held the Malliot Jeun (yellow Jersey) such as Eddie Mercxx, Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome for example. I hope I’ve spelled their names properly. It’s certainly a spectacular sports event. There is a lot of expensive equipment and amazing feats of endurance (plus some drug scandals). I’m looking forward to the final day on the Champs Elyssais In Paris (pardon my spelling).

Lake

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Lake, Reflection, Silhouette, Sketching, Walking, Water, Westport lakeLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Lake. This is a drawing of Westport Lake from a photo I took on Tuesday.. The sky was quite dark and overcast so it gave it a very atmospheric feeling. The silhouetted tries look good reflected in the water. This is a felt pen sketch of it.

One more for tonight

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Doodle, Environment, Eyes, Hay-fever, Life, Nature, Poem, Poetry, Pollen, SketchingLeave a comment

A doodle based on the previous post about the environment. They say allergies are caused by being bought up in conditions that are too clean so the body does not learn how to react normally to its surroundings.

Feeling stressed

Thinking of nature

But suffering hay-fever!

Eyes water

When I try and commune

With the outside world

The pollen

So tiny

Can keep me trapped.

Sneezing

Enclosed

Removed from nature!

Sky

Posted on June 28, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers art, Clouds, Drawing, Hail, Rain, Sketching, Sky, Thunderstorm, weekend2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Sky. I tried to draw the clouds I had seen at the weekend as they bubbled up. Shower clouds not quite thunderstorms. There was heavy rain but not hail. Felt pen drawing. I couldn’t replicate the colours in the sky that day.

Abstract into face

Posted on June 24, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Doodle, Drawing, Experiment, Glitch, Life, Photodirector, Sketch app, SketchingLeave a comment

A digital drawing or doodle. Started with a blue and yellow drawing, then I used photodirector to add glitches and texture. Once I had saved it I thought I could see a face so I sketched one in using purple then white blue and black.

Energy

Posted on June 23, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, Energy, Lightning, lightning bolt, Sketching, ThunderLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was energy. I decided to draw lightning as we are expecting thunder storms later in the week. Lightning is much more complicated when you see a photo of it. Not the single lightning bolt that you get in cartoons or emojis. This is from memory.

Flowers

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Brushes, Colours, Digital drawing, Doodling, Flowers, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

Just a doodle in ArtRage oils. Playing with the oily affect of the bushes in the app. Then adjusted in Instagram. Finger painting and playing is fun. I liked making the colours bright, like printed silk or satin. Just simple lines and dots, but I think it’s quite effective. I enjoyed creating it. I could see this printed on a greetings card. X

Cattle

Posted on June 21, 2022June 22, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers prompt, Art, Cattle, chewing the cud, Cow, Drawing, Felt pen, Guernsey?, Life, Sketching2 Comments

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was Cattle. I looked for something to draw. I did a quick felt pen sketch of a cow. I don’t know the type it is. Maybe a Guernsey cow? Just drawn from the Internet. Took about fifteen minutes. I think it’s probably lying down to chew the cud. I was always told when I was a child that they lie down before rain. I’m not convinced that’s true!

Sounds

Posted on June 19, 2022June 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, felt pen drawing, inlets, Sea, Sketching, Sound, Sounds, WaterLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was sounds. Trying to work out how to draw this. Sounds can be acoustic or geographical. For instance the sound of music, or Plymouth Sound, an inlet into the sea. I decided to draw a combination of sound waves disturbing the surface of water as we don’t live anywhere near a sound. Felt pen drawing.

Mallaband-Brown

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