Finally . . .

Finally started drawing again yesterday after hardly doing anything outside of work for a few weeks. Feels good. Was starting to get me down. Nothing special just scribbling with a brown felt tip. Challenging but fun.

All Alice posters have gone and have a few more orders so will try get a new batch ordered this weekend. Hope to set up a PayPal buy now thing for the blog. Etsy isn't really working for me.

Rehash

A quick lunchtime rehash of this unfinished project for fourteen nights. Need to push on with this as soon as. It is weighting me down

previous version

Mislaid Muse

Just can't seem to get going at the moment. Momentum mislaid in work and play. Hope to be back to the drawing board soon.

Added footer to blog.

I have added this slide show of images from past posts to the bottom of the blog. It's in a random order and is only a small selection. It is a nice way to review past projects and doodles without crawling back though the archive though.

nb. the + and - buttons will adjust the playback speed.

Type Trouble

Edit: Added right hand layout . Probably final. I'm not sure I prefer it but it seems more functional

Always really unsure of what to do with type and layout. Knowing me this will all change before printing. Some of the text is wrong and the night probably needs a better title . . . . I won't post the final though so hope you like this.

If anyone has any typography/layout suggestions or can point me in the direction of a good book I'd be very grateful.

Edit: Here are some earlier layouts. Looking at them this morning I think I prefer the title text in these . . .

Gangsters and Molls

A poster/flyer for a swing dance party.

ps 200th post :)

Alice Arrived

Hi guys, The alice posters have arrived and look great. I am really happy with them. If any of you want a copy please leave a comment and I'll work out the best way of distributing them. I only got 8 made up for now, so let me know quickly. Click on the image in the previous post to link to the full picture.


edit - I just realised that I forgot to say what size it was. It is roughly 42x15 cm

and more - I only have one of these left now. I will order another batch and get them up on ETSY soon. Thanks for the support guys :)

Waiting for Alice

I have ordered some postersof my Alice piece. I expected them to have arrived already but I'm still waiting. When they get here I hope to put them up on my new Etsy shop. Watch this space those who were interested.

In the pipes

fourteenth night . . .

. . . and I'm a long way from finishing this. Having lots of doubts. Just need to push through but also need to have a break from it too. Need to make my Fourteen Nights posts less ambitious. . . another lesson learnt.

Week 10 of 10

Tonight was the last of the life drawing classes I've been doing. What a good session I had. I did loads of drawings. I was feeeling quite relaxed and playful and really had fun with these and got some good results. The drawing at the top is my favourite for the 10(8) weeks. It was a two minute pose that looked quite tough but the drawing came out very nicely. Hopefully we will get to do another session in the autumn. My drawing has definately improved and I had a lot of fun.

Damned windows

A small detail from the current illustration. Looks like it is gonna take a lot longer to finish than I thought. Damned windows.

A good morning for commuter sketching

Pencil Rough

This has come up quite nice. Looking forward to colouring it now.

Long Week

Last week was a really long one. Despite still being tired from Italy I was out dancing a lot and drinking and drawing the rest of the time. I didn't really settle into work all week (suprise suprise). Although I still managed to finish one illustration and rough out three more to tackle this week. In my spare time I did these thumbnails for fourteen nights. I'll try and find time this week to work one of them up.

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.

Alice Finished!!!

Well here it finally is. I have procrastinated over this one long enough. I could fuss over it for ever but I think it is probably as good as it's gonna get, give or take. I have a lot of thoughts about the lessons I learned on this piece but I'll save them for a post at a later date. For now I'm gonna sit back and enjoy having finished.

I am thinking about having this made up as a print. What do you think?

edit - colour/saturation is quite different on my other computer! I reserve the rght to colour balance when I get to work. Thats not fussing right ;)

Week 7 of 10

Good to have a bigger model this week. Lots of interresting shapes. Hope we get her again before the end. Might try and use a different media than charcol for the quick ones next week as I would like a bit more control.

edit - just realized I am going to be in Italy next week so I'll miss the session. Oh No! On the other hand. Lots of lovely Gelato, great coffee and swing dancing til dawn . . .

Sideshow

For Fourteen Nights. I feel it needs something else but it's fine and today was the deadline.

Week 6 of 10

Good to get back to life drawing this week.