Sketchbook Archives: 17

Here’s a snapshot of my sketchbook in September 2012, I was getting out and about, two cafes and a blustery day on Swansea Beach. There’s also a strange sketch of three pigs heads in the old Swansea Magistrates Court, I was involved in a very surreal short film…. And top left a scribble of the old Palace Theatre as it was then, in a terrible state. For years we all thought it would fall down or be demolished but our local authority raised enough money to do it up and it re-opened recently with a cafe and modern workspaces. The interior has changed but the exterior is now preserved for another few generations.

#Caturday Silhouette 4

I’m clearing out my plans chests. I have two and I want to cut back to one. That’s a lot of sorting to do. As I’m going along I’m finding lots of nice papers that I’ve coloured up for one reason or another, so I’m having a bit of #Caturday fun with some cat silhouettes I cut out a while back, putting them onto different backgrounds. Art doesn’t have to be serious all the time. The silhouette shows our little elderly rescue cat, William ChatNoir, aka Bill. The background is some paper I experimented with, using textured gesso, acrylic paint washes and compressed charcoal.

Live At The Boxing Club: 6

The last of my scribbles from the Gwent Boxing Club in Townhill in Swansea. The lads are really, really fast so there was no time to do any detailed drawing, I could only do speed sketching. It was good practice to capture movement as quickly as I could. It was very intense, lots of concentration, but worth it because I started to capture the dynamic movements.

Live At The Boxing Club: 5

Speed sketching gives variable results, sometimes catching fleeting moments quite accurately, sometimes the scribbles look like…well…scribbles. Sketches from my recent visit to the boxing club, these guys are so fast.

Live At The Boxing Club: 4

Scribbling away at the boxing club the other week, I was sketching movements and positions I hadn’t seen before, but these guys are so fast, I struggled to get anything resembling a human down on the page. But it’s really good practice, each tiny figure adds to my knowledge of how humans move, how we’re made up.

Live At The Boxing Club: 3

The other week, I went and had a scribble at the Gwent Boxing Club in Townhill in Swansea. The lads are really, really fast so there was no time to do any detailed drawing, I could only do speed sketching. It was good practice to capture movement as quickly as I could. I could see movements and body shapes that I wouldn’t normally see.

Live At The Boxing Club: 2

Just a quick blog post this evening, just got back from a gig at the Patti Pavilion, Warmduscher was headlining. Great vibe, jumped about a bit too much and I’m aching. A nice cup of tea and a couple of paracetamol is what I need now 😀

The speed sketch was done recently at Gwent Boxing Club in Swansea.

#Caturday Silhouette: 3

I’m clearing out my plans chests. I have two and I want to cut back to one. That’s a lot of sorting to do. As I’m going along I’m finding lots of nice papers that I’ve coloured up for one reason or another, so I’m having a bit of #Caturday fun with some cat silhouettes I cut out a while back, putting them onto different backgrounds. Art doesn’t have to be serious all the time. The silhouette shows our little elderly rescue cat, William ChatNoir, aka Bill.

Skipping.

I drew some of the guys at the boxing club as they skipped the other evening. They are SO fast. The skipping ropes were a blur!

From The Ceiling And The Floor.

My first sketch from the boxing club last week, a warm up to get some proportions using continuous line, looking at the punch bags connecting to the ceiling and the floor, before the boxers arrived.