I paid more attention to the sky today. Though most of the time it was completely cloudy, there was one moment when the cloud thinned just enough for the sun to be seen as a white disc. This one I drew on my phone, using an app called Sketch Club!
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Profile
I now have a Tumblr and a Facebook Page! Here's a new profile picture to celebrate.
How do I delete the white background from line art?
Over the last year I've been Googling the sentence above - how do I delete the white background from line art? I know that I know how to do this, but I keep forgetting. So I've decided to write it down so that I can reference it in future, and hopefully help others as...
Life Drawing, 9th
I'm pleased with many of the sketches I did last night! Regular drawing helps so much, yet it's so easy to fall out of that all-important habit.
Life Drawing, 2nd
Some sketches from Tuesday. Pencil, pastel and pen.
Mount Hood
Using some family holiday photographs for reference, I painted Mount Hood (vaguely based on it) for my father's birthday present. I used gouache and a stencil made from paper which gave interesting gloopy results, especially each time it was reused. Here are the final...
Portrait of a Friend
At the same party a friend kindly sat still long enough for me to draw him. Drawing quickly from real life is great, but I like the more "finished" drawings I can get when I have longer to work on them!