A BEAUTIFUL NEW DRAWING TOOL My latest drawing tool - a real treasure Some time ago I bought a cheap proportional divider to help with my continual problem of getting size and proportion correct in my drawings. I am improving in this direction, but sometimes it is extremely helpful to use this tool,…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - SELF PORTRAITS For our final project in the portraits module, we had to draw a self portrait. Initially I really wasn't sure about this. I haven't got any decent recent photos of myself and wasn't sure I really wanted to draw myself at all anyway! As a second choice,…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH DARK HAIR This was the final directed project of the Portraits module, which Phil told us would be the most challenging project of the whole course. Methods of drawing portraits In the first project in this module, the portrait of a young boy, we…
VINES AND TRELLISES IN UFO - A NEW ZENTANGLE I am currently working on some interactive elements - pop-ups and pop-outs, and decided to decorate one of them with Zentangle. Browsing around I came across a very attractive new (to me, at least) grid pattern called UFO by Ginny Lu, and thought I…
WATER DROPLETS IN COLOURED PENCIL Following on from my previous post, with my drawing of some water droplets in graphite, here are some more, in coloured pencil. I thought it would be fun to do a whole collection, in different colours. I think they turned out OK. This time I did them without…
WATER DROPLETS IN GRAPHITE It's been a while since I did anything in my Coptic-bound sketchbook. I was browsing Pinterest yesterday and came across a YouTube video demonstrating how to draw water droplets on lined paper, and thought I'd give it a go. The artist did the whole demonstration at an angle, unfortunately,…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN A HAT For the second project in the portraits module, we had to draw a man with ink pens. This was a real challenge. With the first portrait in the module, we used "partial tracing" to get the proportions right, tracing small marks at…
3-D HOLES - ANOTHER DRAWING IN MY RHODIA DRAWING BOOK I really wasn't sure what to call this drawing! It was inspired by a picture I saw on Pinterest, which I think was actually a photo of a wood carving rather than a drawing. It didn't come out quite as I wanted, and…
ONLINE ART COURSE - PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY The portraits module We are rapidly approaching the end of this course, with the penultimate module which is on portraits. Hard to believe we are now at this stage! The time has raced by. Introducing portraits We have done some portraits earlier in the…
A TINY BOOK TO CELEBRATE A VERY SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY Today, 22nd September, is the 40th anniversary of the day I became a Christian. I was an Anglican church-goer, and was invited by some friends to attend a large non-denominational rally in a neighbouring city. For several months I had been struggling with my…
