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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 ๐Ÿ˜‚). 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 ๐Ÿ˜‚). 

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 ๐Ÿ˜‚) 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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Finally finished the art for the children's book l Finally finished the art for the children's book last night. I'm onto tweaks in the next day or two and after that I probably won't want to look at it again ๐Ÿ˜‚. 24 pages of art overall.

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Panel detail from the children's book I'm drawing. Panel detail from the children's book I'm drawing.

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Panel detail from the children's book I'm working Panel detail from the children's book I'm working on.

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Digital drawing for a website. Always enjoy puttin Digital drawing for a website. Always enjoy putting hand drawn digital illustrations together for websites. These things take minutes in Clip Studio Paint.

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Another page from the book I'm working on. It does Another page from the book I'm working on. It doesn't really make any sense out of context, but I quite like it all the same. Just finished this illustration today.

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