Drawings: 2020
This was the year that the world was introduced to Covid and lockdown. By this time I had already formed the idea that I wanted to draw my own assets for my own training slides and presentations. Interestingly I never once considered taking an online course during this phase. Date: 12/4/20 Comment: As always, the […]
Drawings: 2014
After a gap of 4 years, I started drawing again and yet again the main spur was signing up to a class in this case, illustrating children’s books because at that time, in person illustrating classes were extremely limited in availability. The structure of the class included a lot of theory around what it takes […]
Drawing months 1 and 2 reflection
Today is 28th of Feb and I’ve just done the drawing for the day. So for the first two months, I’ve tracked what I’ve done (offline at the time of writing this as I’ve yet to upload the drawings) and some stats. So for Jan, I drew on 14 days out of 31; February I […]
Drawings: 2008-2009
In 2008 and 2009 I was living in France and the small town where I was living, they had a local art class which I joined to draw but also to practise French. I wasn’t working too much so I had a lot of spare time. This probably explains why I did a fair amount […]
Drawings: 2021
2021 was a year 2 of covid and lockdowns where I had many troughs and a few peaks of drawing and building a habit. This was also the year that I discovered and fell into the Youtube hole. Date: 20/6/21 Comment: This was an attempt at a cat. I think I was following one of […]
Drawings: Jan 2022
Date: 01/01/22 (1) Comment: 5 mins (guestimate) 100 Faces Nos. 1 and 2 In both cases, I tried to keep it broad and not get bogged down into detail but that just meant that I abandoned it because the hair was hard. No. 2 was even harder to get the angle. I realised that I […]
Drawings: Feb 2022
February was in general a good month. I drew most days than not. I spent longer on individual images (rather than get bored and abandon) and I think it was during February that I started to get an idea of certain things like values, paper quality and how difficult faces are! Date: 1/2/22 Comment: Total […]
Digital Pathway Target 1 – The pen and lines
1. Introduction I spent a long time thinking about what is needed foundationally to learn to draw digitally and whilst I am not sure about future targets, the first target has to be getting used to the pen and some basic tools of Sketchbook Pro. If you are interested in how I got here, you […]
Pathway Drawing: Targets 1-3
PD Target 1 – The Habit Target: To develop a drawing habit Measurement: To draw 5-6 days a week Criteria: At least one drawing or doodle with min time of 1 min Achievement: Consistently drawing most days in a week and month and have a feeling that you’ve forgotten something if you’ve not done a […]
Pathway – Drawing
Introduction All drawing is based on a number of technical skills – proportion, perspective, shading, colour, etc. These are applied to whatever you want to draw – such portraits, animals, scenery, robots, monsters, concept art, aliens using whatever medium you want – pencil, pastels, paint (including digitally). After this you find a style such as […]