Category: Drawings

  • Inktober 2021

    I have done the Inktober challenge for three or four years now and loved doing it. I enjoyed it as a daily practice and it helped me to develop style and technique with various ink media. Most of all it disproved my belief that I couldn’t begin to think of a story when I found…

  • Doodle Time: Getting Perspective

    Another exercise from Mattias Adolfsson’s Domestika course “The Art of Sketching” brings me the delights of isometric perspective. I really enjoyed this one. It didn’t hurt my head half as much as linear perspective. Would you believe that no one taught me linear perspective at art school? Though my Foundation course did give me a…

  • 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…

  • Cissie and Bea in Colour

    The final step in Domestika course “Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper”. Colour! Technical pen, brush pen and watercolour on 300gsm watercolour paper.

  • Cissie and Bea Go Learning

    I have been doing an online course from Domestika – “Illustrated Stories: From Idea to Paper” by Alfredo Cáceres . Because I am thinking that maybe I should be learning something. Who knew there was a difference between illustrating an action and illustrating a concept? That is how little I know. I take the challenge…