This latest large sketch work is based on a photo of 2 small dogs laying on a sofa. As you can imagine getting the it to look right is more than just perspective and getting the face look right - there's loads of fur try and capture the look of. So the line drawing started … Continue reading Sketching Little Dogs
Category: Art Work
Simon’s Sketch Work – 3D Ball
I've been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques... I enjoyed this one, for some reason a bit of a pain getting the circle the right size and position but the shading seems to blend well. It's amazing that a … Continue reading Simon’s Sketch Work – 3D Ball
Simon’s Sketch Work – Human in Perspective
I've been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques... Perspective is something hard to get right when drawing something let alone someone but with a little help and practice this sketch worked out quite well I thinkWhat do you think?
Simon’s Sketch Work – Cosmic Eye
I've been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques... This is something I felt inspired to draw rather than a copy. I'm not sure I totally know what it means - maybe it's about the cosmic, human perspectiveWhat do you … Continue reading Simon’s Sketch Work – Cosmic Eye
Simon’s Sketch Work – Dancer
I've been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques... People are interesting to draw, the form and perspective makes it a challenge. This Dancer image was a struggle to get right and even now isn't perfect... but good enough.What do … Continue reading Simon’s Sketch Work – Dancer
Simon’s Sketch Work – Butterfly
I've been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques... This is the next sketch I'm showing off and I kinda like the intricacy of it, it almost looks delicate on the page like the butterfly is in real life.I made … Continue reading Simon’s Sketch Work – Butterfly
Simon’s Sketch Work – Praying Hands
I've been trying to hone my sketching skills, having a sketching workbook has helped a lot to give me ideas and methods and techniques... I've done a few recently and the first one was of some praying hands. There's something about praying hands that's peaceful, there's many things human hands can do for good or … Continue reading Simon’s Sketch Work – Praying Hands
Sketching of Virgin’s Galactic Spacecraft
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spacecraft has finally flown, to some fanfare and a lot of controversy the Virgin Galactic took its first commercial flight some weeks back. Aesthetically it's quite a pretty thing, something that looks quite swan like and graceful. Finding a picture that inspired me - I created this sketch. There a few … Continue reading Sketching of Virgin’s Galactic Spacecraft
Sketching Scarlett
I've been working a bit on my sketching, especially with portraits as they're quite interesting, my latest work was of a portrait of Scarlett Johansson. This was the finished sketch: The hardest bit I found with this is the charcoal pencils, the fine detail with them seems hard to achieve and I'm wondering if I … Continue reading Sketching Scarlett
Space Art – The Clouds of Jupiter
After the fairly successful Horsehead Nebula I dived into a bit of planetary art this time the clouds of Jupiter were the subject. This took a fair bit of time this piece as the colours and patterns had to be shaped and merged and all of that good stuff. I'm quite pleased with this one … Continue reading Space Art – The Clouds of Jupiter
Space Art – The Horsehead Nebula
I had an urge the other week - that was to create the Horsehead Nebula, I've been shying away from digital painting and I simply decided to have a go and see where it took me. Taking a shot of it from NASA I painted, smeared and added stars and all of that - piled … Continue reading Space Art – The Horsehead Nebula
Space Art – Saturn and the Distant Sun
As part of my aim to create more art in both digital and traditional ways I wanted to re-create the space scene that I use quite a lot on my site and see how well I could make it using what I had. Unlike the previous times I have created planet rings I didn't take … Continue reading Space Art – Saturn and the Distant Sun
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