Category: The Look

  • Doodle Time: the Art of Self Torment

    One of the exercises on the drawing course is to develop a “selfie” cartoon … a character self portrait. This caused me to use up a lot of pages in the sketch book. And to get really upset. Vanity struggles with realism. Ageing is not a good look for me, never mind the artistic challenge…

  • Noir

    Why are we in black & white? “I bought a book: How to Draw Noir Comics by Shawn Martinbrough. He says you have to draw from life or photos … and to start taking lots of photos in black & white. Does it make us look sinister?

  • Drawing Syb & Me: The Discussion

    Ta-da! You could draw us like this. “Yes Mum.”

  • Curtains of Desire – Episode 4

    “Finally, you enter a big department store’s fabric sale. Feeling very tired, you offer up a little prayer.  And my sister unearths a roll of linen … … with a butter yellow background, birds, flowers in coral, a little pink frog or two … and leaves the exact colour of your carpet … The moment of truth is that you need 11 metres and there are just…

  • Curtains of Desire – Episode 3

    “My sister goes off to buy the curtain material you have set your heart on but someone else has bought it. All 36 yards of it….  you write that you “could weep”. “And when she suggests you come with her and your granddaughter on a trip to the nearest big city one hundred miles away, your first reaction…