Observing, looking ,seeing

Well despite everything that's gone recently, or perhaps because of, I've been trying to connect with my sketchbook to stay sane! The fact that I'm nearly at the end of this one is giving me a bit of a creative spurt; "If I finish this sketchbook, I can start a shiny new one - yippee!"

Anyway this piece, is just lots of faces from last sunday's Observer. Really had fun doing this page.

Becktacular

What's going on? I don't blog or draw for weeks on end, then suddenly 2 blogs in as mainly days? Madness, utter madness!


This is a pic of my lovely friend Becky, from when we went out to Twenties Judder. What I love about this pic, and thought would make it interesting to draw, is that it's Bex, but not. It's got the cheeky fun loving side and the bracelets, but not the ginger hair that she probably gets defined by. I thought it would be cool to draw Bex, without that defining feature and see if she was still definably her.

Paltry Offerings

This is the sum of my efforts drawingwise for Oct/Nov. This is something I'm determined to recommit to in the coming weeks, as I think it'll help preserve my sanity as Chrimble marches on towards us and the stressometer gets turned up to eleven!

Anyway without ado...


This is the pirate duck we brought home with us from Minehead.




Two of Antnee from last weekend, I thought we should have a portrait party although I dont know where Antnee's sketchbook is so I can't show you the ones of me! I didn't realise I'm made him look quite so angry at the time! I love how drawing can really connect you to that particular moment too - these pics are always gonna remind me of the sunday afternoon we sat and drew together listening to AIOTM oh and the policeman who was randomly staring in at us!



And finally, this is one of the v. cool toys Krist and J9 sent me for my birthday, best described as a wingheaded toadstool baby I think!
That's all for now, hopefully there'll be much more sketch blogging over the coming weeks, I've just ordered a cartload of photo's from holidays/weddings/judder so -fingers crossed - they'll kickstart some inspiration!

Holiday Horse

Well, I've been really bad at keeping up with my drawing recently, and even worse at blogging about it - but here's a pic I did on holiday. I always hopefully pack my drawing book in the suitcase everytime I go away, and as often as not bring it home just as pristine as when we we left, so then fact I got one drawing done this time is an achievement! This is the ceramic horse who sat in our Tower window, he was electric blue and utterly fab - if only I'd taken my paints with me!

Introducing sketchbook 2

Ordered myself a nice shiny new sketchbook from amazon and I've been drawing every day since.

Flight of the Birthdays

This is the card I made for Tony's birthday, It's me and him as Brett and Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords, only with a guitar hero controller and a ukelele (a spongebob square pants flying-V no less!) 'cause thats what he got for his birthday

End of a sketchbook

Well, I 've still been drawing it got a bit wonky there for a bit, I wasn't drawing everyday, but then I realised there were only a few pages left in my moleskine and got a second wind!