Tag Archives: sketchbooks

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.

Imaginary Head

I was playing with some Derwent Inktense blocks the other day, using them to draw on top of a very bland pastel drawing that I didn’t like. I let my imagination lead the way, which is something I rarely do and should do more often. It’s Christmas so I put my imaginary head in aContinue reading “Imaginary Head”

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”

#Caturday Archives: 35

Looking back through my sketchbooks to February 2015, I spotted Little Ming aka Ming The Merciless. She was a tiny, fluffy Tortoiseshell with one eye and a giant personality! She was a sweet, delightful, cuddly little cat UNTIL we took her to the vets. She had a red marker on her notes at the vetsContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 35”

#Caturday Archives: 34

This #Caturday Saturday I’ve gone back almost 11 years to January 2015 and some pen and pencil sketches I made of the late, great Bobbit, a rather curmudgeonly calico cat.

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. 

Sketchbook Archives: 52

Some of my out-and-about sketchbook drawings from December 2014, I think some of them are from a visit to Malta that month.

At The Swansea Fringe: 4

When I start a sketching session, I usually do a few quick warm-up sketches, to get in the groove. Here are some from Thursday and Friday at Swansea Fringe, at Elysium. I generally do these on cheaper cartridge paper with graphite, and I don’t normally use colour on these. Their purpose is to get up toContinue reading “At The Swansea Fringe: 4”