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Digital sketch based on the pencil heron drawing.

Digital sketch based on the pencil heron drawing. I thought I'd better get to grips with colours etc so I roughed it all out in Clip Studio.

Frankly, its too post-apocalyptic to be useful to the client (😂) but it gets that stuff out of my system before I start trying to make a more thought-out version.

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Back in my comfort zone: sketching creatures of th

Back in my comfort zone: sketching creatures of the field with a pencil and cheap cartridge paper.

This will be a digital painting eventually (those lines in the background are there to remind me where I thought the rest of the art should go and the angle it should be at).

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Over-designed and (quite rightly) rejected logo id

Some website design. I just put this up on my FB f

Some website design. I just put this up on my FB feed and thought it might look good on here too.

Its a website I designed and built for urban planners Urbana. I really enjoyed it (as I do anything that gives me some creative freedom). They wanted the black and white artwork you can see above to compliment the photos of their building projects.

The cartoons at the bottom aren't mine BTW.

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Freddie Mercury prototype for a client. My client

Freddie Mercury prototype for a client. My client wants famous portraits so this is the first version I'm happy with.

I wanted to do my own version of airbrush art (the phantasmogorical style, rather than the clean looking stuff) in the vein of Doug Johnson. I'm battling clean lines (fuzzy, broken lines make it hard to recognise the subject) but I'm on the right track I think. Next one should be better!

Pencil portrait that I used as a basis included.

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Whale In The Wood is finally available to buy. Ju

Whale In The Wood is finally available to buy.

Just head to www.whaleinthewood.co.uk and grab a copy.

All drawn and coloured in #clipstudiopaintpro

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Pencil-only drawing of Hen Cloud at The Roaches.

Pencil-only drawing of Hen Cloud at The Roaches.

I'm considering designing some more cards, but this time just doing Peak District landscapes in pencil.

This is just a mechanical 2h and a mechanical 2b on Bristol board.

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We got the first batch of Whale In The Wood childr

We got the first batch of Whale In The Wood children's books through. Obviously, I want to change loads of stuff (I was THIS close to sitting at the table for 3 days and taking a fineliner to each one 😂). That aside, it's still great seeing your work in print.

I'll put a website together next week so we can sell some.

I feel a bit deflated now it's finished! I need a new visual art project/challenge I reckon.

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Practise portrait of David Attenborough using the

Practise portrait of David Attenborough using the Loomis method (well, the bits about scaling and feature-placement anyway). It turned out OK I think (it could be improved but you can just about work out who it is 😂).

Capturing the human form with a mechanical pencil and a bit of printer paper is really, *really* hard but I'm enjoying learning how to do it.

I've got a load of these to do for a client so there's more to come.

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Watercolour practise. This is my daughter on the b

Watercolour practise. This is my daughter on the beach (minus the beach 'cos that seemed to detract from it). It's definitely useful to do the same thing several times and compare.

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Portrait practise for a client's project, with the

Portrait practise for a client's project, with the Loomis method (for the pencil drawing and structure), a photo of Alan Turing and the oil painting brush (and only that brush) in Clip Studio Paint.

Its not as good as it could be (Rishi Sunak seemed to creep in at one point 😂) but I think I've got a basis for a portrait technique.

More to come in this style.

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Spent an enjoyable morning trying to teach myself

Spent an enjoyable morning trying to teach myself how to draw freehand portraits with a photo of Alan Turing and Harold Loomis' Head And Hands book. I've largely abandoned Loomis' technique to be honest and gone with his ideas about placement of features only.

I want to be able to draw faces using only lines (no shading at all) and still have them be recognisable.

Need more practise but I'm getting there.

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