Looking through my old sketchbooks, here are some random people scribbles from January 2015. I love to sit still and quietly sketch people going about their business, unaware that they’re being drawn.
Category Archives: out and about
Sit, Sip, Sketch.
Another little scribble capturing someone reading while they’re having a cuppa at the Waterstones Bookshop café in Swansea. It used to be the old Carlton cinema and it’s a great place to sit, sip and sketch.
Another Random Head In The Bookshop Café
It’s a great place to stop, sip and sketch, the Waterstones Bookshop café in Swansea. It used to be the old Carlton cinema and the café is on the first floor, where the circle was when it was a movie theatre. It’s rather grand, dating from 1914 with huge bowed windows, a glass dome andContinue reading “Another Random Head In The Bookshop Café”
A Random Head In The Bookshop Café
I like to sit and sketch in Waterstone’s café, it’s a lovely atmosphere, it’s a bookshop as well. People are often reading while they’re having a cuppa, so it’s much easier to sketch them than people at a gig.
The Last Of The Old Year
I went up to Elysium for New Year’s Eve with Husb and SIL and had a fab time. I did a bit of scribbling, of course, in pencil into my size A6 Indigo-bound sketchbook, the last of 2025.
Family Heads
Christmas is a family time of year and I’ve been looking back through my sketchbooks to find sketches of my relatives. The advantage of drawing family is they’re FREE hahaha 😀 These are from December 2014 and January 2015, using a variety of materials, including Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens, graphite, compressed charcoal, and aContinue reading “Family Heads”
Portrait Drawing: Week 7
It’s 7 weeks since I started back at life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop after a long break (see here) and here are the warm-up sketches. I’m aiming to improve my portrait drawing over the next year. These range between 5 and 15 minutes, using a graphite block onto a good quality but cheap cartridge paper.
Which Should I Choose?
These are the final three portrait drawings I did recently at Swansea Print Workshop‘s weekly life drawing group. I did these in the final hour of the session, she maintained the same pose so I was able to really look and analyse what I was seeing and try and be accurate. I’ll be choosing one ofContinue reading “Which Should I Choose?”
Portrait Drawing: Week 6
These are the warm-up drawings for week 6 of my return to life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop after a gap of several years (see here). My goal is to improve my portrait drawing over the next year. These sketches range between 1 and 15 minutes, using a graphite block onto a good but cheap cartridge paper.
At The Swansea Fringe: 5
I was one of the “Live” sketchers at this year’s Swansea Fringe, and here’s one of the musicians at Elysium on the first night, in a band called Whilbur. I used graphite onto a thick vintage paper (not watermarked), a water reservoir brush and Derwent Inktense blocks.
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