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Tag Archives: Sketchtember

Inktober

01 Monday Oct 2018

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Drawing, Drawing Challenge, Ink, Inking, Inktober, pen, Sketchtember

Well, Sketchtember is over; how did you get on? I think I did okay considering it was my first attempt. I only missed a few days due to illness, and most importantly I really enjoyed it. It brought back the childhood joy of mark making, something I feared four years of art college had destroyed.

So what now? Well, how about Inktober?

Inktober is another drawing challenge. The only difference from Sketchtember is that your drawings must be in ink. Here are the rules:

Inktober rules:

1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).

2) Post it*

3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2018

4) Repeat

Note: you can do it daily, or go the half-marathon route and post every other day, or just do the 5K and post once a week. What ever you decide, just be consistent with it. Inktober is about growing and improving and forming positive habits, so the more you’re consistent the better.

That’s it! Now go make something beautiful.

*Post it on any social media account you want or just post it on your refrigerator. The point is to share your art with someone. 🙂

Check out the official Inktober site here.

The official site has lots of advice on what to draw, how to draw, post etc.

Have fun!

Millenium Gorilla

30 Sunday Sep 2018

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Art, Birmingham, Charcoal pencil, Drawing, Millenium Gorilla, Sketchtember

For some unknown reason, I always called this toy Space Monkey, but it quite clearly says Millenium Gorilla on his round badge – in reality, not in my sketch.

I’m feeling even rougher than when I last posted so ten minutes or so was all I could manage with this. It’s drawn with charcoal pencil from Tiger. They’re quite lovely to draw with, and you can get a decent black out of them. I’m not sure how well Millenium Gorilla gets on with those massive feet. It must be a bugger getting in and out of airlocks.

Heads Down

27 Thursday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Exam conditions, pen, Sketchtember

I had a stinking cold yesterday which has now transformed into a head full of sludge leaving me with the need to be curled up in a ball, not at work. Nothing was happening yesterday, so no sketch, but today I managed to scratch something out.

These were all done really quick and in pen. They’re not that accurate, but you get a feeling of their intense concentration.

Cannon Hill

25 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Drawing, pen sketch, Sketchtember

Today was a wonderfully bright day, so I went for a lunchtime walk through Cannon Hill Park. This pen sketch captures the dramatic long shadows cast by the trees.

Comic Biog #2

24 Monday Sep 2018

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Art, comic books, Drawing, Music, Sketchtember

I’m going to be busy this evening so I’ll post the second page of my biographical comic strip. It’s not great, but you gett the idea.

Image-2

Squeak Sqeak

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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Art, Birmingham, Drawing, Sketchtember, Toys

Whoops. I missed a couple of days due to being very busy and very tired.

I was tidying up yesterday and I found some charcoal pencils I’d forgotten I’d bought. I thought I’d give them a go today. Desperate for ideas of what to draw I asked my daughter to pick out some toys I could sketch and here they are.

This first one isn’t great – the ears are way too short. The second one is much better.

Comic Sketch

19 Wednesday Sep 2018

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Art, Biographic, comic book, Drawing, Sketchtember

This is a bit of a cheat, but it’s been a long day, and I’m pooped. This is a biographical comic I knocked out a while ago.

I remember being quite chuffed with this when I first did it, but with hindsight, it’s not that great.

Graham.

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Graham Coxon, Ink, Music, Sketchtember

I missed yesterday’s sketch because I was at a gig in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Swoon, how exotic. I went to see the incredibly talented Graham Coxon. It was one of those gigs that you know will stay with you a long time. Coxon is moving, evocative, at ease, awkward, brave, nervous, challenging, innovative and most of all mesmerising. His guitar playing leaves me speechless. Such a huge talent.

Anyway, after all that build up, here’s my average sketch of the great man in action.

GC

This is Staedtler pigment liner straight onto paper – that’s fibre-tip pen to you and me. It’s not too bad considering – guitars are always a bastard to draw. There’s lots wrong with this, shush, but I think the hair’s okay.

Speedy Pen

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, pen, Robot, Sketchtember

A quick robo sketch for yesterday.

Biro on paper.

There And Back Again

16 Sunday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Sketchtember, Train

An art filled day in London lead to trying to sketch on the train – not great. The sketch below is from a photo I took on the train.

The one below was abandoned due to the ricketiness of the train.

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