Sketcher's Block

I still haven't got back to the sketchbook for a while. I seem to get creative when I have time to relax but our postcard hobby takes up a lot of time organising trades, searching for new postcards, and keeping track of it all. I'm loving it so I'm not regretting the lack of sketching. I will still be taking the sketchbooks away on holiday next month to see if inspiration hits.

Slacking off!

Just popped in to say how slack I have been. I haven't entered anything for Illustration Friday for two weeks! We have been really busy though and have finally been able to buy our new car so we've been out and about a fair bit. No time to sit still!

Hoping to get back into Illo Friday next week.

Sketching in the front garden

A couple of days ago I was motivated to take the sketchbook out the front and have a go at the big blob of fungi growing at the base of a lopped palm tree near the driveway. I was sitting in the hot sun so I then moved to a shady area and sketched a garden light and bit of a zig-zaggy plant that grows along the fence...



Closer look at my fungi pic...



Still in the shade, I thought I'd have a crack at a perspective drawing - our house. I've got many sketching books on loan from the library at the moment and had just been reviewing perspective. I'm pretty impressed with this effort, though I know some bits aren't quite right. Who wants perfectionism anyway? :-)

Illustration Friday - Year of the Rooster

Illustration Friday - Year of the Rooster

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Seeing as we are changing from the Year of the Monkey to the Year of the Rooster, Monkey is helping Rooster to see the Chinese New Year in. I used coloured pencil but the colours are a bit dull for my liking.

Illustration Friday - Friendship

This is my very first entry for Illustration Friday (link button on sidebar).


Illustration Friday - Friendship

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Notes:
I took a photo of my son and daughter holding hands and that became the basis of this drawing (I have trouble when drawing from memory). I sketched it in pencil and when happy with it went over it with two different sized black ink pens. I'm not totally happy with the shading (my weak spot) but like it nonetheless. I grabbed my watercolour pencils and just blended them for the background. This is very different to the basic pencil sketches I usually do.