Today I attempted some gesture drawing from an episode of The Life of Birds. As I reached the end of Planet Earth II last year I realised I really should have had my sketchbook out. It's good training for cafe gesture drawing, which I'm normally pretty hopeless at. As...
A little over a year ago I set myself the challenge of illustrating a short story I'd written. I've posted some concepts and development of these illustrations before, but now I'd like to share a few of the finished drawings. Most of the drawings below are spreads,...
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.
Haven't drawn much in the last few days, so I spent some of my morning doing timed sketches from artists.pixelovely.com [now https://line-of-action.com/] - a great site for gesture practice. These were 30 second drawings.
Last month I got to take part in a fantastic two-day masterclass with Wouter Tulp and John Nevarez. On one day we came up with different character poses and situations for someone saying 'Go ahead, I'll wait.'The drawings above were my first rough ideas. I wanted to...
See my previous Inktober post here. Here are the rest of my Inktober drawings for this year. I missed a couple of days, but otherwise I'm pleased with what I've accomplished. Ink can be very unforgiving, even with a pencil underdrawing. It's been good to try something...
I've been taking part in Inktober - a challenge to do one ink drawing every day of October. They've all been posted on my Twitter but I'm just now getting round to posting them here. I haven't followed the official prompts; instead I'm drawing costumes through the...
I sketched a little in the Botanic Gardens over the weekend. Alongside the plants there were some marvellous statues.
Yesterday I had a wander around Glasgow's West End with some friends from the course. While they had a look round the various exhibits at Kelvingrove I sat and drew some of the stuffed animals. Here are some of the best / least creepy sketches ... I think the penguins...