Sketchbook - page fifteen, sixteen and seventeen

Three more sketch pages, this time filled during a day out first to the Tank Museum and then to Lulworth Cove, both in the south of England. I only had a pencil, eraser, black fine line and warm gray+1 tria marker with me - hence the style.



Two exhibits at the Tank Museum - the left imge is part of a 'walk through' experience, where you get to see up close and personal (albiet in a very sanitised fashion) what the Trenches were like in WW1. This particular exhibit is a man huddled into a small dugout, clutching at his hair and weeping. It's kinda creepy and rather upsetting to view - even though you know it's a manaquin and tape-recording...

The right image is a very quick, rough, pencil sketch of a 'Baby Gas Mask' - an all body suit that you placed baby in and hand pumped filtered air into. Apaprently it was never actually used, but during trials, it had a tendancy to send babies to sleep (probably due to carbon-dioxide build-up in the suit itself.)

I found both these exhibits intriguing, so I sketched them.



This is a page that I started in the museum - sketching visitors and children - and finished off at Lulworth Cove later in the day, sketching families at the beach.



This last is the view from my spot on the beach at Lulworth Cove. (I say beach, by the way, but it was really just a big, huge, long pile of pebbles of varying sizes >> Lulworth is NOT a good place to go wearing sandles...)

One of my favorite things about Lulworth Cove is the cliffs - they are cleared of any over-lying soil or grass, so you can actually see the rock. Lulworth's cliffs are the best examples I have ever seen (literally, with my own eyes) of the folding of the Earth's crust.

You can sit there and litterally see time on those cliffs, from the way it is folded and rippled. It's bloody gorgeous.

Sketchbook - Page twelve and thirteen

These two pages were filled while at Bromham-On-Sea, during a very british day to the sea-side (in this case, the tail end of an estuary, rather than the actual sea - but close enough)





The top page are all of the same family, playing in the sand, flying kites and so on - quite amused by the baby boy sitting fully clothed in the wet sand, picking up handfuls of muddy-sand XD Also a dead crab I found in a pool! I love drawing crabs.

The bottom was an attempt at sketching the donkey/mule riding stand. Apparently I fail at mules and donkeys XD and fail even more at trucks XD

All in pencil, fine-line pen and shades added with warm gray+1 Tria marker.

Sketchbook - Page seven & eight

These two pages were drawn while tending a carboot sale - all the people shown were random customers who either stopped at my stall or who looked interesting to draw but were standing further down the line of stalls.




Very, very quick sketches - no more than about twenty seconds each. Fine-lin pen straight into the sketchbook.

Windows and Doors

Here's the first image I've completed.


Started a new project, with the specific intention of making prints to sell at the local craft fair that's held every month.

Pen and ink on A4 printer paper - too many hours to count. Line work darkened slightly in photoshop, for clarity.

Sketchbook - page six

Today's and Yesterdays page - doubled up, because I had a busy couple days and could only manage one drawing each day XD





From photographic reference.

Note to self: Practice feet.

Darkened the lines in photoshop, so you can see them XD

Sketchbook - page five

I'm not sure I like this one, at all. Too.. girly? Mom said it looks like something a twelve-year-old would paint, and I find I agree.

Neh.

Either way, at least it's only a rough practice thing, done in my sketchbook XD

Mixed media - acrylics (again treated like watercolour) detailed with felt pen, glitter-gel pens and a silver paint pen.

Ick.

Sketchbook - page four 'Elegance'

Here's the page I did Wednesday. And, I was so pleased with it, I cropped it and framed it c.c



About 4 hours.

Acrylic ( treated like watercolours at first - layered on - and then painted thickly, with plenty of finger-smudging ) on brown paper. A little light shading with a Derwent Drawing Terracotta artists pencil was applied to the left side of the image after the paint had dried.

The background colours were applied Tuesday night, using various ' Pretty Colour ' pigment stamp pads and left to dry overnight.

The Kanji reads: 'Yuuga' ( Elegance )

Painted from ref.

Considering I haven't painted in over three years, I am damn pleased with this.

Sketchbook - page three

I've known BSL Fingerspelling since I was about 12, (and I'm in the process of self-learning the wider BSL) and all this talk about Braille (and the project idea I am now working on) got me wondering about incorporating BSL into the project somehow, as well...

So, for my hand studies, I decided to use fingerspelling images as refs (I even looked up the American version and doodled those as well) - so you have my name in Braille and Fingerspelling on this page XD As well as the Braille alphabet at top-right (which is 'bumpy' - like 'real').

Sketchbook - page two

Same media as page one, but this time, portraits from photographic reference. And yes, I stuck brown-paper into my sketchbook again c.c

Oh - the pink squares? For some reason, the scanner picked them up as white, so I put the pink back in, using photoshop.

I'm now aaiming to do a page a day - and I'll put each page here, as I do it ^^

Fresh Sketchbook - Nude Ladies

Opened a new sketchbook today, for to work on my portfolio. This is the first page ^^



Drawn from photographic references in mixed-media (markers, pencils, tipex/white-out, biros, felt-pens and ball-point gel-pens).

I can't keep my fingers off the white-dots on the black hair. It feels like brail and makes me want to do some hands-on art, using real brail, on purpose for people to touch...

More to come ^^