Coffee Spill

Waiting for the train this morning

. . . and a bit of colour

Tube

On the tube this evening after an exciting meeting.

. . . busy

Really busy at work this week doing fun stuff. Not much time or energy for my own drawing. I did do these on the train though.

Out of focus

Spent the afternoon messing around in Photoshop. Doing lots of playing and experimenting at the moment. Which is good. Feel like I could do with getting my teeth into something though Ineed a project. Probably something brief . . . maybe its time to reboot the Fourteen Nights blog . . . . not sure, but need some focus.

a little bit of something

Having a tough week. Lunchtime sketches aren't amounting to much. These are from the train

Sketchbook

Just a few of the pages scribbled on the train this week

Two studies

Nothing really new here. I need to try something different. Starting to wonder what I am getting out of doing these . . .

and something a bit looser

For Lunch

Two studies done in photoshop. This is all I had for lunch! Better dash out and get something to eat now, I'm starving.

Vanity

A few self portraits I did this evening to kill sometime before going out to a gig.

Four More For Fun

Vintage vogue for lunch

A few quick studies.

Sunday Scrawling

Some quick felt tip scrawlings on this soggy sunday afternoon.

Space Scribbles

Some rough stuff. Trying to get something worked out for the Fourteen Nights blog. Fun to do a bit of scribbling.

Home again

Back from a short break to a swing dance festival in Como Italy. Had a great time. Awesome bands, great friends , amazing dancers and then there was all that great coffee. Here are a few sketches.

Walt

I finally received the amazing Walt Stanchfield books, Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes this week and have been emersing myself those. So many exciting insights to keep me thinking and developing my drawing skills. The sketches above are unrelated although some of Walt's lessons on gesture and acting are probably already coming through a little. I filled my water brush with some diluted ink and am enjoying trying a bit of ink and wash.

Week 2 of 10 - Mother and Baby

We had two models this week. A mother and baby. It was an interesting session. The baby meant more shorter poses (5-10mins) which I quite liked. I wasn't happy with most of these during the session but actually they aren't that bad. The drawings are a bit more confident this week but no great change. Next week I'll aim to challenge myself a bit more.

edit - replaced image with better colour balanced version

Yeehaw

I did these this afternoon. A little bit of gunslinging after two days crashed out on the sofa. Too tired to tackle Alice.

Sketchbook

some of todays scribbling

170th Post

Sketches done during lunch today.

170 posts! Blimey, that's rather a lot. I only really mentioned it because I missed 150 which seemed like something of a landmark. But I was quite suprised to realize that I only started this blog a year ago. I shall have to have a look back over it all soon and take stock. I wonder sometimes if I should just make significant posts but then I quite like scribbley 'diary' entries. So I imagine I'll doodle my way past 200 soon.

Doodles

Some sketches on the Tablet-PC. Haven't used it much this week as I've been enjoying good old pen and paper. Also busy with digital illustrations for work. Pleased with these though. Nice just to do some doodling.