The weather has been topsy-turvy over this Easter Long Weekend, but I managed to fit a few in. To see all my sketches in full go to my Urban Sketchers page. Cheers!
Urban Sketches additions
Are you ready to rock?
Creating music opens wide the doors in terms of how hands can be manipulated to play a multitude of instruments - striking, stroking, plucking, strumming, shutting, dampening, stretching... It is a very skill-orientated domain and what you can see in the hands are the technical demands (and years of practice) an instrument needs in order... Continue Reading →
More Urban Sketches, Addison Road
Spent a Sunday afternoon at the Addison Road Community Centre. The organic markets are on, and after 10am the Bower and Reverse Garbage are open. It's has a great vibe and very encouraging of the arts. To view my Urban Sketches of Marrickville, click here. For more info: The Bower, Reverse Garbage and Marrickville Organic Market I've... Continue Reading →
Urban Sketchers Sydney
Through my friends at Sydney Sketch Club I have been invited to contribute to Urban Sketchers Sydney. All I know about Urban Sketchers is that it is a massive online group who are a passionate about drawing, drawing journals and the urbanscape. Put it plainly, if we were watching a Star Wars film - they'd... Continue Reading →
more hand studies
Work has been crazy, so I haven't had a chance to do much drawing. all I have to offer are these three: This one was quite tricky because I had to completely trust what was in front of me. The forefinger looked as though it was also the finger that curls up under the thumb,... Continue Reading →
Drum • draw • drum • draw • drum • draw • drum • draw • drum • draw
Hello February! This is going to be a crazy period for me - I have Chinese New Year commitments coming up for a few weeks so will find it difficult to do much sketching. But I hope to at least get some decent research material for it. I also just returned from a 4 day... Continue Reading →
Step by step – hand on mouse
This is one of three [maybe more if I feel it is a constructive enough excercise] step by step breakdowns of drawing hands. I had some notes I wrote to accompany this, but I cant find them. So hopefully it will all come back to me. Anyway, I will be doing a series of hands... Continue Reading →
Step by Step: pen in hand
Aah! My new best friend - the pen. Sorry about the wonky dissolves – George Lucas would fire me on the spot! 😛 Some easy tips I'd like to give people on shading: 1. If you have very strong shadows on your object, especially anything spherical/cylindrical, don't shade right to the edge. You can see... Continue Reading →
Step by Step: pen resting in hand
See more Hands Study: Holding Objects
What do I hope to achieve with this blog?
I have always illustrated for other people to suit their needs (it’s a commercial thing), but I've never had my own style. I was taught to be versatile, which is still important I guess, but these days, you can be who you want to be and it’s okay. It’s acceptable. Maybe it’s to do with... Continue Reading →