Ink and watersoluble pencil on fabriano paper.
The second in the series.
Category Archives: Drawing
Doll and Crow – ‘Sleeping’
Water soluble pencil and ink on Fabriano paper. This is taking my original idea and developing it, using some of the observational studies.
Sketchbook studies for ‘Doll and Crow’ series
Having developed an idea for a drawing, I then needed to get a better idea of what the component parts of the drawing might actually look like. These studies in my sketchbook are taken part from life, and part from photos sources from the internet.
Drawing from imagination
Pencil in sketchbook.
This is a new and challenging exercise for me. Usually, I find an image to paint or draw, and then work out what meanings can be read from it. To try something different, I tried to think how to express an idea through drawing. This is entirely done from imagination with no visual reference (can you tell?!) It is the first part of a series which I am working on, exploring my reactions to fairy tales – and the role of the ‘princess’ in particular.
Related to this, I’ve rediscovered the old Ladybird Books ‘Well Loved Tales’. I’ve managed to find a couple of these books which seem very familiar from my childhood – ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Looking at them again, some of the illustrations are very familiar indeed, whilst others I can’t remember at all. Obviously as a child, I had favourite pictures which I looked at again and again. I plan to use this somehow – but I’m not sure how yet!
Three more dolls
More observational drawing. Trying to loosen up a bit. Brush pen and watersoluble pencil in sketchbook.
Spank
Ink and wash. I need a lot more practice with watercolour washes. I think I am using too small a brush, so I’ve bought a size 14 round brush to have a play with.
Strange siblings
Charcoal and chalk on tinted fabriano paper
Soft sculpture and drawing practice
Remember ‘id’? Well, I made another one.
But what do you do with them? I decided to use them for drawing practice. Because I do a lot of my work from photographs, I need more experience drawing from life. I did the following small sketches (about A5 size) using the dolls as still life models. I used dip pen and indian ink, which forces me to focus on making an image using lines only, therefore thinking how to use a range of marks to suggest areas of tone. I also drew them fairly quickly, and directly with the pen.
Same picture, different medium
Pencil and colour pencils in sketchbook.
Bookish
Wax crayon in sketchbook. I was concentrating on negative spaces and forms, and drew in blocks of colour rather than doing an outline drawing of the whole thing first. Now that I’ve scanned it in, there are bits that look distinctly odd, but overall I quite like it. I’m playing with children’s media – crayons, felt tips etc. to see what effects I can get (and to start playing again, as I’m still feeling a bit stuck.)