Other People

The blog where I've done pictures from life, of people who aren't me!

Stuff 'n' things

Continuing the themed series of blogs from my current sketchbook, this is the inanimate objects one.

Reflections of Myself

Yeah, poncy title but I didn't wanna call it "Self Portraits 2" which is basically what this is; self portraits but done with objects other than mirrors!

Self Portraits

I haven't blogged much recently, but have been drawing an awful lot so over the coming days will be posting some themed blogs on what I've been up to in my sketchbook.
Today is self portraits. If I've learned anything it's that I should stop holding the mirror down low, cause I'm giving myself a double chin! It was also pointed out that I tend to frown in these, but we put that down to concentration.

Finally!

Today, along with Barbara, I took myself off to a life drawing class. This is something I've been wanting to do since I don't know when! I missed out on life drawing at school, I think I got ME around the time that would've happened. So in a way, tonight was a gift to my fifteen year old self!

Forgive the dirty converse, I just wanted to give a sense of scale. It's also a long time since I've worked at this size. I don't think I'm going to find my A5 sketchbook intimidating again!
Had a brilliant time tonight. I knew doing this would probably help me to see better, but I didn't know I was going to learn a whole new way of seeing.
Off to bed now, all that creativity has made me sleepy!

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.