Persuasion is one of my favourite Jane Austen novels (I find it hard to choose between it and Pride and Prejudice) so I thought I'd draw Anne Elliot for day four. I wanted to draw her in a style similar to some of the cartoons of that time - lots of lines and hatching.
Having lost her seal skin, this selkie meets Fraser and his dog.
Fraser was enjoying a walk on the beach with his dog when he came across something extraordinary ...
Inktober is an annual drawing challenge which I've taken part in before, but this year I've decided to do it a little differently. As the name suggests the drawings are supposed to be in ink, but this year I'm going to cheat and draw digitally. My aim with this...
I was in Edinburgh yesterday for an animation event, so I spent some time drawing in the museum on Chambers Street. I sketched a sperm whale skull and a haughty-looking llama as well as some of the visitors. The sketches are pen on paper, but the tone was added...
I've been busy with work and a family wedding, so it's taken me a while to post anything new! Here's a group of studies from one of Muybridge's wonderful sequences.
More studies from the Bodies in Motion website! I began with some 30 second sketches, all of which were very rough so I haven't uploaded any of them. Next I went through one of the motions spending a minute on every drawing. Finally I spent quite a long time on a...
Last week I went to a show of students' work where Katrina Ellis, a weaver and life model, modelled with some of her fabric. It was fun, and challenging, to draw.
Recently I signed up to Scott Eaton's Bodies in Motion website, which is stuffed to the gills with stunning figure references. The 'Motions' feature sequences of photographs of people dancing, leaping, and fighting. What's lovely about it is that moments of action can...