This is a little ink illustration I drew for a friend's birthday card. I coloured it in Photoshop, but I think I prefer it in black and white.
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Life Drawing, 20th February
It's taken me a couple of weeks to put these online! A lovely session with Ana modelling. This time I felt a bit more comfortable using conte pastel to draw.
Study Squares #4
Here are some quick pen studies of the views from the train today – mist in front of trees, stubble in the snow, hedges, ploughed fields, footprints, snow melting.
Life Drawing, 6th February
Last week I had a good life drawing session with lots of dynamic and interesting poses. I drew in conte pastel for the first half, which was an attempt to shake me up a bit and loosen my drawings. Though everything felt a bit messy I think it was good as an exercise....
Life Drawing, 9th January
My first drawing session after Christmas, and I was quite rusty ... it took me a while to warm up. We had a break just as I was beginning to feel I could draw again!
Life Drawing, December 2017
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!
Life Drawing … with Dog
Janey was the life model at this Tuesday's session, and she brought her dog along! It was fun to do quick gestures of the dog while also capturing her lovely poses.
Life Drawing, October 31st
Andy was modelling at this week's life drawing. He held some great poses, including one where he played the guitar. As he was actually playing the guitar rather than pretending to, I feel the final drawing has real movement.
Animation Workshops
Recently I taught some animation workshops for groups of mainly high school aged children and youth. This is the first time I've taught animation in any depth, though I ran one workshop on pixelation a few years ago. My main goal was to give a basic framework for...