I've been unable to go to the life drawing sessions for the last couple of weeks, so I did some drawing from poses online. They're not ideal (although the model does stay perfectly still) but I do like being able to do the very short poses. The hands below were done...
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,though you are small among the clans of Judah,out of you will come for meone who will be ruler over Israel,whose origins are from of old,from ancient times.Micah 5:2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King...
Since I began playing around with digital gouache brushes I wanted to try out the real thing. I bought some paints today and smudged them about in one of my sketchbooks. I like how they're a combination of acrylics and watercolours! And yet, unlike either, gouache...
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!
I sketched this boy at a party I was at this weekend. I loved the way he was sitting on the chair.
I actually painted this a while ago at a life drawing session. I need to keep practising with watercolours; it's difficult!
I illustrate images for a blog - here are a couple of the sketches I did for it.
I'm thinking about illustrating a short story about Liffey using this style. I like how haphazard I can be using this digital pastel brush! This drawing is of Twoey and Liffey.
Some doodles with new Photoshop brushes.