Dancer

I managed to take a one-off drawing class the other day where we got to draw a group of young ballet dancers doing bar exercises.  I didn't get as many solid drawings as I would have liked to as the class was very much aimed at folk who hadn't had much experience with life drawing, so we did a lot of expressive exercises where the outcomes were meant to be quite abstract.  It was still a fun class though! a nice change from your typical life drawing classes where the model sits on a stool for two hours.

The Dress Rehersal

This started as a doodle of a wee girl in an over-sized costume and it eventually became this bigger painting. Another very girlie piece, I am one after all, but I suppose in my next painting I'll at least try and hold back the sparkles but I'm not promising anything! ^_~

Whitby Sketch

I love to travel but this year I opted for a cheap and cheerful holiday in the UK (I'm saving up for a big trip to China next year ^_^). I could easily spend a summer in Whitby drawing and eating ice cream, what a lovely little town!

Miniature Sushi

I make these things just for fun. Each piece of Sushi is approximately 1cm long and they are made from polymer clay. I upload this sort of stuff mostly on my deviantArt.

Coffee shop sketches

People's Palace Sketch

It was just too nice to not draw outside today. Sat in the park, had an ice-cream and I drew this.

Medusa

My slowly dying computer is not so much forcing me to do more traditional work but I really want to be able to paint well, I'm particularly bad at watercolours so this was a fun wee doodle and I didn't have to put up with my infuriatingly slow computer!

Sophie Collage

Another attempt at a 3D-ish paper collage. This time I designed an original character rather than a piece of fan art. I think it worked out better and I have to say that it was a lot of fun making her, very girlie and flamboyant, I should probably challenge myself next time and try and create something more atmospheric or serious.
(Full view Please!)

York and Chester Zoo sketches

Two quick sketches from my wee trip to York last week, one of which was in the National Railway Museum. Spent more time shopping than sketching really, the town looks just like something from Harry Potter!


Also spent a day at Chester Zoo. I'm embarrassed at how much fun I had at this zoo because it just shows how little I've traveled to more exotic countries. Just a few sketches here but I did manage to fill up a whole book! Lots of great ideas and inspirations for fun little characters which I hope to create this week - there was this one orangutan that kept doing rolly-pollies!

Recent Life Drawing

Sketchcrawl

Sketches

Some sketches from yesterday, I guess this would be called a 'sketchcrawl'(?)

Botanic Gardens

Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Coffee shop

Kelvingrove Art Gallery Sketches

This one actually started off as a double page sketch but I was just too cold to finish it off, next time I'm going to sit in the cafe across the road to draw to outside of the gallery!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Here is my drawing for this years celebration! It is the year of the Rabbit after all! ^^
恭喜發財!

Recent Life Drawing

2 minute poses

My doodle for today

The little mermaid, quick sketch all done on photoshop.

Old Batman drawing (cheat entry :P)

I actually went back to life drawing tonight but the long break - holidays plus canceled classes due to snow - has erm...left me out of practise. Here's hoping next week I'll get back into the swing of things!

In the mean time, I recently found this drawing I did way back in high school, about 6 years ago. I went through this phase of copying out of this Jim Lee comic but I never finished this one. So I touched it up and here it is! If I have another 'off' week, I'll work into this more, colour it and give it a proper background.

Recent Life Drawing

Recent Life Drawing

No lines and just tone again! I should probably make myself draw like this more and maybe it will help improve my painting.

Gigi Paper Sculpt

Another attempt at this type of '3D' collage. This time it sits in a box frame and is at least half the size of the Moulin Rouge collage. Gigi was on tv the other day which was what inspired me to do this but I really don't think this type of medium has captured the gorgeous design of the original dress worn by Leslie Caron. I will need to design it better next time.