Category Archives: People watching

Stopover Sketching

I was visiting in the Lake District the other week and travelled by train. I had an hour and a half stopover in Manchester on the way back so I had a picnic and a scribble in my sketchbook. The lad on the right had an interesting hairdo; like a pudding basin cut with flick-upsContinue reading “Stopover Sketching”

Life Drawing: Instinct

This was the final life drawing I did last week at Swansea Print Workshop’s weekly sessions, and although I quite like the drawing, I’m still struggling to get a good likeness of the model. Comparing my drawings with another artist later, I realised that our model has huge eyes, so large that I instinctively andContinue reading “Life Drawing: Instinct”

Life Drawing: Self Censoring

When I first took up social media, way back in the early days with MySpace, things seemed much more relaxed and artists were mostly able to post authentic artwork of nudes without much hassle. Not any more, not for some years now. So I’ve cropped this, which is a shame because I think it’s oneContinue reading “Life Drawing: Self Censoring”

Life Drawing: 15 Minute Heads

I was working with a new model at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, and it takes a while to get used to someone’s features. These are 15-minute sketches, I was able to take a bit of time to get some measurements done. I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and blackContinue reading “Life Drawing: 15 Minute Heads”

Sketchbook Archives: 64

Going back to July 2015 for this group of portrait sketches of elder women. I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and black onto brown parcel paper pasted into a sketchbook.

Scribbleheads…

I keep meaning to do more random sketches from imagination, just letting my bit of graphite scribble away to see what happens, but I find it so hard to let go and not work from life. I MUST TRY HARDER!!! 😀

Life Drawing: Just Back

Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and I’m just doing a quick post before going to bed. I did the drawing using a graphite stick for the finer details and a graphite block (6B) for the strong lines and darker shading. Nos da, goodnight

Sketchbook Archives: 63

Looking through my sketchbooks from June 2015, I was going through a phase of pasting brown wrapping paper into my sketchbooks to give a bit more variety to my drawings. Here are some I did of musicians at one of the local folk clubs.