I am well and truly on a roll. I only started this little blue tit yesterday and I was determined to finish it today. At one stage I thought OMG this is going wrong but no. It was that ugly stage plus I had not got the main wing in, which I needed to give …
After losing my darling Inga, I have said to myself that I really need to draw so much more, so that I can improve my skill, to develop my own style and to learn new techniques, building the muscle memory by drawing every day. Some days things will flow and like life some days they …
I have finished my cats eye study in monochrome. I have learnt a lot by doing this short study that I really need to pay attention to the fur direction. I find my eyes gets distracted and I know I can’t possibly do every single hair. I need to work harder on the tonal values …
Here is a little bit more progress. Me personally I don’t like it, but that’s my head telling me it’s rubbish, because my fur looks scruffy, the eye is perfect. Maybe it’s at the normal ugly stage and if I put a little bit more work into it, it will look much better. Let’s see. …
This cats eye drawing has only 2 colours of pencil used, it is all about tonal values. I have used Faber-Castell Polychromos Black and Cold Grey 1. I’m following a Teresa Joy Fine Art Tutorial for this drawing. Till next time,
I thought I would have a go at drawing a little quick red robin today. This time of year really does make me feel down in the dumps. I’m now counting the days to the shortest day on 21st December. Like most of us we hate the dark mornings and evenings. But I really do …
I’ve drawn a bumble bee before I did some housework this morning. Just something quick, it only took 2 hours do draw, it’s only small so I couldn’t get a lot of detail in. It’s about 70mm by 45mm. I have really enjoyed drawing this bee, even though I find hot press paper hard on …
