Making a Zine

Posted on November 30, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged 64 pages, Art, College, Design, Editing, Fun, Learning, Life, Photos, Sketching, zineLeave a comment

Sixty four pages (32 images, 32 text) later. More glue and parcel tape than I can cope with. The parcel tape is white and has fragile written on it in big red letters.

I started by taping 32 a6 cards together with parcel tape, then gluing down an image and plain paper alternating with each other. My measurements were a bit off so some prints overlapped each other. The result works but is messy. I wrote on the blank sheets vaguely telling a story but it needs doing properly.

We will see what happens.

My mouse has died!

Posted on November 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Annoyed, Art, broke, Computer, Fed up, final major project, Mouse, Sketching, Stylus, technical glitch, USB port3 Comments

Tool of my trade…. But its stopped working! The light has gone out. I tried changing USB ports but then the computer said the port is not recognised? WTF… Sorry to swear, but I was in the middle of creating a Dragon Zine. I’d cropped all my photos, all I have to do is click and drag them into place… I can use my stylus from my tablet, but when I tried to click with it, it just drew lines? Argh! Will anything go right? I want to print off batches of four photos then cut them to size nd glue them down. The idea was if I did them inA6 I could fit four to an A4 page and save paper…. Grrr!

February dragons

Posted on November 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, art block, Artists block, Depression, Life, Pandemic, Sketching, Thinking, TimeLeave a comment

Looking back at my sketchbook I found this from February this year. I think I was going put more then. Going for walks and not exactly seeing people but socialising more.

Then I pulled a calf muscle and it really knocked me back. I am seeing a lot less people and turning into a recluse. My walking consists of going to the shops a couple of times a day. This weekend I actually went to my art group meeting. I was trying to finish a dog painting and I used it as an excuse to get out the house and do some art. I think that has helped me break out a bit. My mojo needs to be released again!

Golden

Posted on November 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, British ceramic biennial, Drawing, golden, Metal, metallic felt pens, Sketching, TeapotLeave a comment

I tried to think of something golden to draw. I could have drawn a ring but decided on do a different object. This is based on a teapot I saw at the British Ceramic Biennial this year. I’ve emphasised the gold colour a bit. I’m not sure what type of ceramic it was made out of but I think the handle was metal. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. Golden.

Spinning Top

Posted on November 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, children's toy, Drawing, Fun, Life, Memory, Sketching, Spinning, topLeave a comment

Not feeling on top of the world today so just did a sketch from memory. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Top. I tried to remember what a toy top looks like. I did a sketch with a black ink fine line pen. This is from memory. I can see a bright top spinning in my mind. The top had some holes in so as it span it had a rising and then descending musical tone. Edited in Photodirector to give a slightly abstract effect.

Colours

Posted on November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Artrage oils, Colours, Fun, Layout app, Metallic, Pareidolia, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

Artrage oils sketch. Using orange, yellow, green and purple to make it pop. Because the colours smudge when you overlap them, it’s hard not to mix them up. Eventually I ended up with this abstract pattern.

Finally I mirrored the image in layout app to create a symmetrical pattern. The colour pallette has a slider for metallic and non metallic versions.

I see lots of shapes in it that could be faces or a cat or other animals or even bodies? Pareidolia again (seeing faces in things)

Busy…

Posted on November 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Contrast, Design, Instagram, Pattern, Sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was busy. I’m busy doing pattern designs for college and this is turning out quite ‘busy’ (complicated, convoluted, patterned) so I think it counts…felt pens then edited through Instagram to bring out the contrast.

Tyre track?

Posted on November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, convoluted, Design, Drawing, Felt pens, Fun, Metallic, Pattern, Sketching, tracksLeave a comment

I was playing about with lines then added the grey infill. What does this remind me of? Tyre tracks! So I can’t say much more than that. I may have some more I can do with this. Or not. It’s only a sketch but it was fun to do. Convoluted complications. X

Doodle

Posted on November 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, Design, Doodling, Drawing, engrossing, Fun, Sketching, taking a line for a walk4 Comments

Where do doodles come from, why are they satisfying if you get the pattern right. Simple black lines twisted and convoluted. If I had drawn just a straight line how far would it stretch? Can you see bears or frogs in this? Or Elizabethan ruffs perhaps? Would you draw anything like this or would it be angular or something different? Playing with lines is fun and engrossing. Why not try taking a line for a walk as it’s sometimes called?

Could you knit this?

Posted on November 17, 2021December 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colour, Design, Digital manipulation, Drawing, Hue, Mosaic, Pattern, SketchingLeave a comment

More playing with pattern. I used a mosaic tool on this so it looks a bit like tapestry. I could imagine it stitched as a cross stitch pattern but it’s very complicated. I see butterflies and moths in it. Maybe even bats and little vampires? It’s fun making up patterns, playing with colours, adding shapes and variations. I changed the hues on this a few times before deciding on this blue, yellow and purple pattern.

Mallaband-Brown

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