Wow! It's been a while. I have well over a year's worth of life drawing to post, but I'll just leave some of my favourites here...

Inktober 05 with an okapi warrior

Inktober 1-4 with a cheeky digital inky 5

One for Hong Kong on October 1st

Pre-bed doodles

Japanana

So I visited Japan recently and spent a few days as a resident artist at Kayamori house and farm project in the mountains of Nara.

The weather wasnt great, heavy rain for the most part, so what was intended as a plein air visit was reduced to a more house-bound approach.

A charming building, with lots of character (and I became convinced that there were ghosts after my host, Aiko, showed me a number of books by the fantastic Shigeru Mizuki). In the 3 days I got a few paintings done, but another visit is definitely on the cards! 

Thanks to Jamie and Aiko for being such great hosts!

 A sheltered corner of Kayamori house's garden, where I hid from the rain and got eaten by mosquitoes

And then some random sketches done before bed!

 

 And this is the linework for my Yokai pinups project, starting with the Shirime!

quick warmup

Pre-bedtime doodle.

So much wrong with it, but hey, at least i had fun!

Death by chocolate

This week I went to an unusual event held at the flagship Cass Art store in Islington- a life drawing session run by Death drawing, an art macarbre drawing group.

The theme was Death by Chocolate and it featured 2 models interacting with cakes and chocolate. The poses were short, between 2 and 10 mins, which was great for loosening up. It would have been great to have a longer pose nearer the end as I really liked the way one model was costumed. Covered in gold dust, painted face and tribal decorations- she looked pretty badass. They were voluptuous ladies too, who are always fun to draw.

If you get a chance to go to one, i'd definitely recommend it. The venue wasn't the best; it's quite a small space so there's a bit of overcrowding. But if you want something different from the standard quiet room with only the sound of scribbling pencils and odd cough, then this is a nice change. I couldnt get Sugar, Sugar (oh honey honey) out of my head for rest of the evening!!

Roxette

Carrie

this week's life drawing

marker fun

happy happy joy joy 2

not internet still but a photo will do

lunch time doodle

Take me away from here

Life studies

WIP

Alla prima oils

Update!

I'm so behind! Here's a backlog of stuff:

Quick characters.



Random sketches, new and old.








speed enviros. Need to get faster T.T