Day 81: Autumn leaves are coming
Today was a lovely sunny day and I decided to wander down to the park at lunchtime - where I found out that it was also »
Day 80: Giving life to my cup and jug arrangement
It's becoming something of a tradition. Yesterday I used a grid overlay to help me draw this jug & cup group more accurately. The reason for »
Day 79: Adding a grid to my jug and cup group
Following on from my reasonably successful attempt at a group of cans I looked for another arrangement which might benefit from the grid treatment and chanced »
Day 78: Filling out my group of cans
In my study yesterday I placed a regular grid over my picture of some cans to assist me in getting the basic shapes down on paper. »
Day 77: Revisiting my can group with the grid method
Way back in June I tackled this group of cans totally freehand, using the contour approach, and wow but the results were pretty bad! It's actually »
Day 76: Tuning the shading of this lock
In yesterday's post I talked about using a grid to help me put together a decent sketch of this padlock. Well today I decided to take »
Day 75: Putting a grid over an old photo
For the first day of this new month I felt like returning to contour drawing and, more specifically, doing this with the aid of a grid. »
Day 74: Potatoes are the best vegetable
For the last day of August (and the summer I suppose) I decided to try something a little different. With a baked potato left over from »
Day 73: Another apple but tinted
Following on from my tinted sketch yesterday I decided to attempt something a little more organic today. Not for the first time I frisked the fruit »
Day 72: Using a tinted wash for the first time
After dabbling with watercolours I figured that I should get back on the program today as I needed to try out a wash tint for real. »