In moving forward with a project I've found myself going back and doing more research. I've been doodling away but guessing at a lot of anatomy for mice, so last week I drew these wood mouse sketches from images found online.
Animals
All In Gesture – Jane
It's been great to get back to gesture drawing, and what a session to do it with! Jane's a wonderful character. I loved exploring some of the situations from Tarzan - and now I know what I'm watching tonight!
Animation Workshop – New Date!
The Traditional Animation Workshop will now be running on Saturday 11th November! Find out more and book your tickets here.
Jousting!
Back in 2020 I was determined to get to one of the jousting events near me during the late spring ... we all know how that turned out. Now that events are back on I still haven't made it along, but one of my colleagues did! Here's a sketch from some of the footage he...
Sketchbook 2019-2022
I've added a new Sketchbook pdf to my Gumroad page. It's got 54 pages of life drawing, gestures, and animal sketches in a large square format - higher quality than on this blog! For £1 you can own your own copy. Buy it here.
Sketch Club: Wizard of Oz
Wild Child's sketch prompt this week was 'The Wizard of Oz'. My choice of character was Toto, played by a Cairn Terrier in the 1939 movie.
Gorilla Sketches
A colleague took a video of some gorillas while visiting his local zoo, and I asked if I could sketch from it. The interactions between the gorillas were fascinating to study.
Wild Life Drawing – Wolf Pups
On Saturday I joined an online drawing class from Wild Life Drawing featuring five-week-old wolf-dog pups from Watermill Wolves. They were alternately incredibly active or completely asleep.
Lots of Liffeys
Liffey was the Irish Setter my family owned while I was growing up. She was a wonderful companion, if a little odd at times. I must have doodled these caricatures of her at some point last year, but I'd forgotten about them until now.