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New challenges in drawing

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Claire B

I’ve had a project in mind for a while now but know my drawing skills aren’t up to the job so I’ve bitten the bullet, invested in some basic drawing books and picked up a pencil. I love fashion illustration … Continue reading →

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Drawing: A bit more nature

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Claire B

Simple plant shapes from a variety of visual resources, before adding some to my alcohol inked background. I have one more coloured background but it wasn’t usable as the background was too heavily coloured to see much imagery.  So I … Continue reading →

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Drawing: A bit of nature

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Claire B

Having used alcohol inks to colour some thick textural hand-made paper I decided to use them to make a criss-cross accordion book which I’m doing for my on-line flexible book structures course.  But, as I’m keen to practice my drawing, … Continue reading →

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Drawing – still life

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Claire B

This One and Twenty exercise got off to a slow start.  After agonizingly drawing the main sweetcorn kernels I realised that time was about up on my allotted 20 minutes.  Was I to leave my food in place until I … Continue reading →

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And back to pencils ……..

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Claire B

Just a quick cube continuing to look at light sources. Followed by a composition of Okra.

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Still drawing – just differently ……….

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Claire B

I’ve just attended my first Adobe Illustrator course (seriously need this skill for work).  Wow, masses to learn.  After 7 hours tuition I reckon I’ve almost scratched the surface. Daunted?  Hell, yes! Excited?  Definitely! Know what I’m doing?  Not even … Continue reading →

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Feb drawing challenge: Day 10

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Claire B

A few quiet minutes sitting in the garden looking at my terraces. Not enough tonal variety, the wall isn’t high enough for the first garden bed, proportions are seriously out of whack.  Poor drawing, need to do better next time. … Continue reading →

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Feb drawing challenge: Day 9

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Claire B

A shell.  I’ve done this before and got either a very flat unrecognizable piece or some very nice sylised drawings, like this one here. Today I’ve gone for something more realistic. Took about an hour to complete. Fun – hard … Continue reading →

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Feb drawing challenge: Day 8

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Claire B

A bit of doodling to get the hand moving, then a simple sphere with shadow.  Learning how to match the light source and the shadow direction.

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Feb drawing challenge: Day 5, 6 & 7

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Claire B

Slightly behind and only a short amount of time each day, so I’ve got one project completed over 3 days.  Continuing along the landscape theme I’ve added more detail than previous days. Day 5: Day 6: Day 7: It’s interesting … Continue reading →

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Feb drawing challenge: Day 3 & 4

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Claire B

Last weekend a quick stop in the newsagents found me leafing through the magazine shown here. I particularly liked some interesting tutorials and examples of work where landscapes have been roughly produced in a quick time frame without too much … Continue reading →

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Feb drawing challenge: Day 1 & 2

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Claire B

I’ve had a busy start to the year with printing and travelling overseas so my normal routine didn’t really start until a few days ago. I’ve set myself a challenge for February: my weekly one-and-twenty drawing exercise is being changed … Continue reading →

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One & Twenty: getting started

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Claire B

My friend Judy and I have started a new weekly challenge.  We gave it the name One & Twenty.  The idea is to select an area/place, for example: the kitchen, back garden, view from the window, etc. then give ourselves … Continue reading →

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