What with packing up and moving across most of the country and Christmas and New Year, it's taken me a while to post some of my life drawing sketches from December. Here's a selection!
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Statue Sketch
I liked this bust of George Roberts, Provost of Selkirk in the 1800s, and had to draw it.
Working on The Gaelic King
The Gaelic King is now available through Amazon, iTunes, HMV and Zoom in the UK! It’s exciting to know the film is out there, and people are watching this story for the first time. I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve done on the film from the last two years....
Life Drawing, 27th June
It was the final life drawing session last week, modelled by Ina. I'll miss the weekly sketching, but hopefully this will push me to draw more the rest of the time.
Show Jumping Horses
I keep mentioning on this blog that I want to do more drawing from life, so when the stable I've begun riding at advertised an informal show jumping event I went along to sketch the participants. At the beginning it was hard to put more than a couple of lines down,...
Life Drawing, May 9th
Had a really lovely life drawing session on Tuesday, with Topaz modelling. I felt I hadn't warmed up enough, but I relaxed over the course of the evening and in the end managed to do some nice drawings.
Ballet Gestures
I thought I'd push my gesture skills a bit and try drawing from moving figures, so I pulled up some ballet videos on YouTube. Very difficult, but good fun!
New Portfolio and Showreels
I now have a new portfolio and two new showreels online! My portfolio has a range of gesture and life drawings, concept sketches, and animal drawings as well as a range of final art from some of my projects. The showreels page [no longer live] has both a character...
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...