The final few from the October challenge:


Romeo - quickie sketch, acrylic and pen, worked from life, no undersketching

Another of Romeo, quickie, from life, no undersketching, diluted acrylic (paynes grey)

graphite stubby, quickie, from life

graphite stubby, quickie, from life

A quick Aussie, worked by loose eye from photo, black acrylic diluted and washed

NOW... since the October challenge got to be a bit of a flop I signed up for WC's page-a-day challenge for November. I decided not to force myself to stick outside my comfort zone but simply do whatever appealed and being okay with the fact some days I have a good bit of time (La at school, Lily cooperates with a nap, not lots of other chores, bits of time snuck in waiting for dinner to cook, kids go to bed easy) and somedays (sick child/ren, not feeling great myself, heaps of stuff to do, La in a full on mood etc.) I will barely have time to scratch myself let alone sketch. I used the same style paper - A5, 100gsm, white paper. Unfortunately a few of the images have a shadow from my camera taking the pictures. Here's the first few days of that:

Day 1: Ink

Day 2: Ink and acrylic

Day 3: Ink and acrylic

Day 4: Ink only (eep, obviously my first kitty... poor Jaspy!)

Day 5: Ink kelpie head - actually about life size here

Day 6: Jahzy and Sam (people are hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhharrrrrdddd *whines* Even using grid reference for proportions it was impossible to define features and muscles without badly representing how much nicer my poor victi... er... subject, looks in life. ~_~

more from WC sketchbook in october

Ballpoint pen echidna - and oh my... as it happens, shading in ballpoint pen is a pain in the bum!

Attempt to loosen up my style - Lily and the dogs

Contented duck - ink

Cinnamon - watercolour pencils

Figure 8 lamb - his coat is done in nothing but figure 8's... fat ones, skinny ones, long ones, short squashy ones, big ones, tiny ones, sideways, angled and twirled around ones but figure 8's all the same. Weird sense of humor I have.

Fresh

King parrot - part of the October Sketchbook In A Month Challenge
Derwent Watercolour Pencils and Aquarells

October Challenge

So, the idea for the October "Sketchbook In A Month" journal was to expand from the only thing I've ever drawn (dogs) but still stay 'close to home' with subjects I'm familiar with.

The point was to practice and experiment, not refining things to the point it's art but just to learn and develop myself. I'm cringing a bit but posting them anyway under that reason.

First up - pekin hen Derwent Watercolour Pencils and 0.8mm UniPin pen.

First attempt (hey I DID say attempt) at drawing a human! EEP! A picture of Laurent, hamming it up. Pencils. 3H, HB, 2B, 6B


Lily, with Timtam the lamb. There is more detail than shows as I photograph rather than scan them. Pencils, um... 3H, B, HB, 2B, 5B? I think?

Cute little finch we saw on a bird feeder at Yarram. For the birders, it's a Red-browed Finch or Neochmia temporalis temporalis. Derwent watercolour with one or two Aquarell colours I think. Surprisingly the paper doesn't buckle too bad even though it's 100gsm!

Flyball doggie. It was supposed to be my girl Hope but I'm NOT happy... normally I'd bin it and I'm struggling with the fact that these are meant to be relatively quick/unfussy/nonperfect sketches and posted with their warts and all. Derwent Watercolour pencils.

One of my neighbors ganders being a bit haughty while trying to decide if I have goodies. ;p Background was totally unintentional - my daughter grabbed my arm while I was drawing and made a big old mark. Crud... what to do? Pretend it was intentional and hatchmark everything! Not great but such is life! Unipin fineline ink 0.8mm. The marker is WAY too fat for drawing a white bird where delicate lines are called for!