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Playing With Pattern

This is the final sketch I did at the last life drawing session of 2025 at Swansea Print Workshop. Although she has short hair, it is styled and I used my pen to create patterns. It’s given me ideas for how I might develop it.

Textures In Pen

During my last life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, I switched to a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen and started to enjoy playing with textures. This is a 10 minute pose onto vintage paper (no watermark).

Switching To Pen

For the last few sketches at the recent life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, I switched from my usual graphite block to a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen. The graphite is great for tones and simple line work, but I wanted to get more fine details so I made the switch. I did theContinue reading “Switching To Pen”

More Time, More Accuracy

This is a 25 minute pose from my most recent life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. Having more time doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a lot more content than in a quicker drawing. This 25 minute pose doesn’t have much more than one of the 15 minute poses, but it’s a lot more “correct” –Continue reading “More Time, More Accuracy”

Trying Out Textures

Here’s the middle poses at my last life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop , two 15 minute poses using graphite onto a good quality but reasonably cheap cartridge paper. I started to play with the texture in the model’s hair, she has a short yet fairly elaborate hair style.

Portrait Drawing: Week 8

It’s 8 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 are 5 minute sketches, using a graphite block onto a good quality but cheap cartridge paper. Sometimes I makeContinue reading “Portrait Drawing: Week 8”

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”

Seasonal Sparta Puss

Many years ago, Husb did a digital sketch of Sparta Puss. She was tiny then, but still had masses of Cattitude! She’s sixteen now and this drawing was done a few weeks before her first Christmas. It sums up her philosophy in life really. Anyway, Nadolig Llawen, Merry Christmas to you and yours. Never letContinue reading “Seasonal Sparta Puss”