Various strands of fate were the causes for starting this blog;
I drew a sketch once of a lady, dressed in black, drawing in her sketchbook at a ceiledh. Many years later I have come to know this person, eventually I remembered that I had a sketch of her somewhere. So I spent quite a few hours going through my sketchbooks looking for this sketch, during which time I ended up reminiscing about various sketches and the people in them etc. I eventually found it and sent her a scan. As it happens, she is a superb illustrator, who has her own blog and website.
I have an artist friend at work and we have been encouraging each other to draw and paint more, so much so that he has set up a little art club that meets once a month to draw. We have also started to get together now and again to draw each other. He's always going on at me to put my art on the net so more people can see it. Needless to say, he's a great friend, with a blog and a website!
So I thought why not put my sketches up and just ramble on about them, like I was doing while looking through my sketch books. So here I am!
This blog is mainly for me, but you are welcome to join in.
Oh, and thank you Cathy for that little strand of fate, and thank you Matt for other things but NOT for pressing that damn lever on my chair....!
I have one of those digital PVR thingumummys where you can pause and rewind live tv etc. Great little gadget! The first two are from one of my favourite programmes ever, always full of great dramatic light and shade,and the third one is from a vampire series.
The model for this group is usually Steve. We meet roughly once a month. Nothing of note in this session, except maybe the foreshortening one. All were A3, pen.
The model here was Arthur, great model good muscles, and kept us entertained with a few jokes as well!
Another portrait, this one is A3, pen with a bit of pencil. Good, but the eyes should have been much better! Not natural enough.
A3, pen. I enjoyed doing the arm on this one,
Silly one, but I liked the way the legs were done. This won me a bar of chocolate!
These are from the most recent class, the model was Caroline. Mostly A3.
The next one is A3, done with a gel pen. Quite pleased with this one, the likeness was good.
Also pleased with this one, done in pencil. The sketchbooks I tend to use are from WH Smiths, the paper is smooth, great for using gel pens on and good value!
This one is my favourite from this session, ink and pencil. A shame the paper wasn't a teeny bit wider. These last three were about 15-20 mins. There were some others, but they weren't that good!
