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 …

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 …

Color Sketching an Alfa Romeo

I've had a picture of this car for ages, it's so bright and red and the shine on it was amazing - I wanted to draw it or at least have a go. I don't know why it's one of those itches I think someone who does art gets...This is how it went. I got …

Drawing Sci-Fi and finding Imagination

I've been very much in a creative lull lately. Since pretty much the beginning of the year I've hardly written, drawn, sketched or done any digital art... I needed to rejuvenate my creativeness. So I looked about a bit and I found myself a book on creating Sci-Fi concepts! Mechanika from Doug Chiang is packed …

Comic Relief – Alien Contact

For Kate's Comic Relief Isolation Fun I thought I would see what I could do - as a first attempt I came up with this: Enjoy! I hope you're all well.

Icy Moonlit Wolf Scene

Hello everyone, I was going to share this ages ago - I have no idea what got in the way but it did. Anyway I created a howling wolf scene that had been stuck in my head.You know like sometimes you have something in your mind and you have to create it? Like scratching an …

I’ve Been Doing a Bit of Doodling

Hello everyone, as you might have guessed from the title I've been doing some doodling. I've not been able to dedicate much time to big designs so I've been having a play with what I can do in about an hour or less.These are what I've come up with:This came straight out of my mind, …

Simon’s Sketch Work – The Aston Martin

I have had a little break from the human face and wanted to draw something more mechanical. So I have stored a few pictures for inspiration and I found an Aston Martin to draw.  One thing I have found with art that is useful is to start with a basic shape and then modify to …

Simon’s Sketch Work – Drawing the Human Face

As my regular bloggies know I've been messing about with art work for over a year now and with this I've been sketching out ideas and transferring them to digital and doing fun things. But I've also wanted to improve my sketching. So I've looked on Youtube on how to draw the human face and …