Sketchbook - critters

Sketches at the Birmingham Sealife Centre

Like a good dad, I took my little girl for a day out in half term. Life a good art nerd I did some sketches whilst I was there. We went to Birmingham Sea Life Centre. It was rather good, also it turns out fish are really cool to draw! (who knew)

Sketchbook - Now with added paint!

I have a new moleskin sketchbook and I've taken to drawing buildings recently.  I also stole my daughters watercolours to give them a wash.  I must get on to Santa about getting her some better quality art material

Sketcheeeess

it was a nice day. I went for a walk. I did some drawing. The end :)

Zoo sketches (Part 1)

On Easter Sunday I visited another zoo which is pretty close to me, Whipsenade. So obviously I got my sketch on. the Hippo is my fave

Sharpie

Here is my latest sketchbook offering. Still trying to get in shape again. I went for the sharpie (brave I hear you cry) I quite liked it but didnt factor in that it would bleed through to subsequent pages (Doh!)

Ive got to try and find a new angle on these as even though these are only from the second sketchbook session I feel like Im treading old ground. Any thoughts or suggestions please feel free to share.

Spring Sketches

It's that time of the year again. Yup, get the old sketchbook and out and start using physical media. Man, it was tough again. Not so much the quality but having the guts to just jump straight in, and the speed! oh, I need to get quicker. Anyways. Hopefully more coming soon. I may even indulge and do some on my iPad but I really want to finish this sketchbook.

As before these were literally seconds worth of work in order to capture a gesture or pose.

Nothing to see here

not been 'feeling it' this week but carried on regardless. I may give these a treatment at some point. I have nothing else to add..

Selected Zoo Efforts

Please excuse the lack of blurb to go with the sketches. In the last post I wrote a whole thing about studying a subject but blogger is rubbish and didnt allow me to copy and paste within itself so I lost it. Anyhooo.. here are a few more sketches from the zoo