I was able to get into the groove during this session. It was one of those better days… 🙂
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| 5 Minute sketch |
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| 10 Minute sketch |
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| 2 Minute sketch |
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| 2 Minute sketch |
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Back to basics
I left my watercolours at home this week, I wanted to focus on improving my drawing skills. I used Gioconda synthetic charcoal and a Koh-i-Noor pencil. The life drawing session was at Konstnärshuset, Stockholm.
See more sketches here.
Here are some sketches from Tuesday’s life drawing session. More can be found here or visit “My Life Drawing 2012”.
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| 2 minute sketch with Hero pen. |
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| 5 minute Koi watercolour and Hero pen sketch. |
I was relatively happy with my life drawing on Saturday. I have been studying my Charles Reid DVDs and some of his expert knowledge seems to have penetrated my thick skull. It is hard to apply new techniques when one is sketching and painting so fast, one doesn’t have time to think really, it’s instinctive. That is the benefit of practising, one improves slowly but more importantly, skills become second nature.
This week, I created frames for my sketches before the drawing session, I like the result of this, they feel like graphic novel stories. Three more drawings can be found on ” My Life Drawing 2012“.
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| 2 minute ink and watercolour sketches |
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| 2 minute ink and watercolour sketches |
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Life Drawing
I was not really in form yesterday evening, a bit too tired to fully apply myself. Still, I gave it a go and a few sketches turned out okay. Visit “My Life Drawing 2012” or click here.
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| Five minute pen and watercolour sketch |
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Life Drawing
I am really pushing myself at the moment, I am trying to improve my sketching skills by practising – a lot. Yesterday I used my hero pen and watercolours for life drawing. It was fun trying to complete an ink and wash of the male figure in two minutes flat. The sketch below was completed in 10 minutes, if you would like to see some more, visit ‘My Life Drawing 2012‘ page.
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| Body builder |
Coming home from work I noticed a man listening to music on his phone. I wondered if he would stay put long enough for me to sketch him. He travelled two stops before getting off at the central station. ( I watercoloured later when I came home)
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| Commuting pastimes |
I sketched my sister sleeping while we were sailing last week. Someone has mentioned that she is ‘Hot!’ on my Flickr Urban Sketching page. I agree with them of course 🙂
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| Sleeping Sister |
Yesterday, I went to my first Life Drawing evening since the summer break, I tried out some new techniques I had been studying, if it were a cake it would not have raised, but it was fun trying and that’s the whole point, isn’t it! 😉 Visit “My Life Drawing 2012” if you would like to see more.
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| Koi colours |