Tag: sketching
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Sketch and Image Transfer
This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…
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Sketching Therapy
Today’s twenty minute sketch is a mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 437/500
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Contrast
That feeling when a sketchbook is so close to finished, and it’s stappit fu o character. Twenty minute sketches, graphite on 9×12 sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 423/500
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Mood
Sketchbook practise twenty minutes portrait. More chat tomorrow. Til the morn Suzanne 420/500
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Sketchbook Pages
I haven’t been posting from my sketchbooks recently, so here are a couple from the sketchbook I’m working in the most at the moment. It is a 9×12″ spiral bound sketchbook in portrait format with slightly toothy paper. I use it for my morning sketch practise, which is currently focused on portrait drawing, but that…
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100 Day Project Day 1
Today was very odd. Yesterday I was fired up and excited about starting the new 100 Day Project, and then today I was feeling very blocked. No, not blocked, tight. I know why – I am used to sharing my art here, and I’m comfortable with that, but this project also has the social media…
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Nasally Challenged
This is a very challenging reference, and I feel I am going to have her on my table for a while, working away until I master the nose. The head tilt and the hair makes what’s happening around the nose and hidden eye very difficult to translate. I started out with a twenty minute sketch,…
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Closed Eyes Pouting
I rocked the day today. I am trying out a new app that is recommended for overcoming neurospicy Things. It’s called Habitica, and I am liking it a lot. Of course it’s a very neurospicy thing to start a new Thing and rock the first day or even ten, so I’ll see how it goes.…
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It’s very pink, darling
After a lot of pottering cleaning gel plates, and gel plate storage clamshells, and cleaning stencils, and brayers, and brushes, and brush pots, and then sorting out the cat litter bucket for all my acrylic water, ready for collection tomorrow, I got stuck in to working on a 16×20″ canvas. For some reason this pic…
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Sketching Ideas
Today I had another not-good day. It seems the festive season has gifted me with a sharp lurch into the next phase of perimenopause, and by fuck is it a complete and utter bastard. I did manage to spend some hot sweaty time in my sketchbook marvelling at how hot and sweaty I am as…
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Look Up
I used my jumbo retractable pencil with the 5B lead for this one, and played with the reference a little. After the art, I went for a 5 mile walk, and while we were out, felt the weather change and get colder, which it hasn’t been this week, it has been far too warm for…
Thrummie Bizzum 