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...
Gestures
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.
Animal Gestures
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.
Character and Story Masterclass
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...
Inktober #2
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...
Gesture Drawings, August
I haven't posted any figure drawings in ages. They've been building up for a while so here are some of my gesture drawings from a fantastic workshop that Sarah Airriess (former Disney animator, animation assistant on Duet, and animator on Ethel and Ernest) gave during...
Inktober #1
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...
30 Second Horses
Some wind-down sketches from this afternoon. Also, the first little bit has been released about the project I've been working on for the last eight weeks. I've been a Story Artist on the Animation Base Camp, a trainee programme with mentorship from Sony Pictures...
Glasgow Botanics
I sketched a little in the Botanic Gardens over the weekend. Alongside the plants there were some marvellous statues.








