Sketchwork – Top Gun Maverick

Here's a lok at my latest sketcwork, taken from the Top Gun Maverick movie poser I saw it and it was to me this brilliant blend of old and new, a now much older Maverick looking up at the twin fighters from a P51 Mustang. I (for some reason) had to draw it... So I …

Waters of Fire – My First Painting

For ages now I've decided I wanted to try my hand at painting. When I say ages I mean years. The other week I decided enough was enough, I sat in front of a blank canvas, with paints and brushes at the ready, not really sure what to do or how to start. and tried …

Cassini’s Grand Finale – 5 Years on

On the 15th of September 2017 the completing the last of it's 'Grand Finale' maneuvers the space craft Cassini entered Saturn's atmosphere and burned up. This ended a mission that began with it's launch in 1997 with the exploration mission lasting 13 years from 2004 until it's destruction in September 2017 when the last images …

2001 – An Art Odyssey

Any of my long time bloggiesw ill know that one of my favourite all time SciFi stories is 2001 A Space Odyssey. For quite some time I've been thinking about what piece of work I could do for this. Eventually I chose this one, alshtough I have to say now that I would have done …

The Squirrel Cage Cutter

Back in early spring when food was hard to come by for all our feathered and furry friends the local squirrel (or one of them) was as is usual helping himself to the birsds nuts and it seems they were having some difficulty getting to the nuts inside. Squirrel on bird feeder - Copyright Simon …

Sketching Little Dogs

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …