It was ....

Playing around with a waterbrush...one little doodle, and the other is the doodle from gandy street the other day

Inner gremlin

Theres a theroy that I recently read about onner gremlins and that each one of us has a living breathing gremlin inbedded in our brain. It constantly dimishes our self esteem and confidance, yes its a big mean nasty bully haha. I read that drawing or write it down, so you can visualise it, so you can tell it to shut its trap! So here is mine, except theres one problem... I rather like him, so I guess hes more the opposite sooo i shall have to try again, but it was fun trying to make somethibg ugly but then to find the results endearing and cute. C'est la vie.

Drawing Gandy street

Just playing around ( I say playing as if it took me under five minutes, that's not true it took me over 45 mins, perhaps an hour I wasn't really watching the time) with some new fineliners I bought. Well you see the thing s, I bought a few liked them, but then they faded and well it turns out that they didn't like watercolours either... but on these pens its actually written across the side of the pen"water and fade proof, pigment ink" so I shall see.

This would be the beautiful Gandy street, most known for its fantastic independent (yet some of these are more south west chain shops now, but some aren't ) shops and for being the inspiration behind THE  Diagon Alley, yes the street in Harry Potter!!  

It's not a great drawing, but it's practice which I need to do clearly :D I kinda took a photograph at angle, and for some werid reason that was entirely subconscious that I would draw as if it had been taken from a "normalish" angle, hence everything's everywhere.

p.s. In case that you're wondering all those delightful scribbles that are in the bottom half of the drawing are ivy, its pretty dense, should have drawn more... maybe I will go over in watercolour... rambling thoughts continue.

ATLAS and beyond!!!

I'm starting a new personal project called atlas, I was going to enter the sktechbook project ( Yes, I know I've mentioned this before and said that  I would enter)  this year but it just hasn't happened yet, so instead I looked at their list and saw that they had a project called atlas.

Below is what I've done today  as a cover for my little sketchbook, sadly none of the imagery used to create this is mine, esstentially it's a collage of stuff I've collected and found browsing the internet. Now thinking about it, I proabably have all my own imagery that I could have used to make this ... like the space scene, that seems so long ago and the key I recently did... oh well. I did debate earlier whether or not draw up my own map, then I came across this one and it just stayed. But  I really actually will draw up my own map and use that instead, eventually, however this could take a few weeks and I wanted to see what it would look like with a well drawn map, not some of rushed thrown together drawings, and I proabably will repost this then.

(NONE of the imagery is mine :(  sorry just though I'd throw in an extra repeat disclaimer, I really need to check copywrite rights etc.)

Drawing again

I came across a photograph of a key today whilst surfing pinterest, and well here's the result. Sorry about the picture quality, it's just I'm not sure where I've left my camera.

Drawing in my Garden

Well you can probably tell that it's not still life I've been drawing from my garden today! These were copied from a calender I got last year, with some pretty awesome photography of monkeys.  I've been wanting to do this awhile and I had the free time to sit in the actual sun today and do it which was nice. Yay heat wave! I have to side with the line drawing as I just like it, it reminds me of a few people! On the right is my first attempt at using oil pastels, and like I've already mentioned it's been hot today, so it probably wasn't the best time to try them out and actually have a go at using them. i will admit the nostrils are a bit werid as for some reason I haven't got a black crayon. It's not perfect but I guess it is a start of using something I'm not used to at all. I'm sure people would have laughed at me drawing today, as my old still life lecturer says became scared to make a mark of the page for around half an hour. It slowed me down :D But hey that's what trying something new is all about!

Here comes the sun

Paper cut out I've worked on today :)
Very loosely based on the Beatles song . Just a small thing that I'm starting to enjoy in my free time, it my second attempt at this paper cutting technique.