Hands On T-shirts
A little story about some t-shirt designs It started with a goal of getting better at drawing hands. Ask any artist and they will say drawing hands are one of the most frustrating areas of the human anatomy to make look right. So I did a lot of sketching hands of strangers in cafes, from […]
Some New Drawing Videos
I made a couple of videos. One’s a tutorial video on warm up exercises for drawing, and the other is a speed drawing video. The quality of these will get better as I work out the technical stuff! Have a watch and let me know what you think… Drawing Warm Up Exercises
Small Head
When: Aug, 2017 Duration: Can’t remember What: A woman enjoying her lunch and phone Where: Tumbalong Park, Sydney Details: Here is another sketch from that one Sydney park at lunchtime. I gave no respect to proportions here whatsoever, and I love the result. Her head and body are really small compared to her legs! If I’m sketching for my own […]
Hands Up
I’ve been working on some hands lately. I wouldn’t say I’m “fluent” in hands, meaning I can’t get always get them right off the top of my head. But I feel I’m getting there. I’ve been working on different hand gestures that put the fingers into some interesting angles. When it comes to drawing anatomy […]
Bench Reports
When: Aug, 2017 Duration: Can’t remember What: Man needing to finish the reports by lunchtime Where: Tumbalong Park, Sydney Details: I had a lot of time to kill and it was a nice sunny day in this Sydney park. It was lunchtime and many office workers were taking a break in the sun. My eyes were drawn to this chap […]
Vietnam: Woman Waiting
When: Aug, 2018 Duration: 37 mins What: A woman waiting in a cafe Where: The Coffee House, Ho Chi Minh Details: Sunday afternoon cafe sketch of a woman across the way. I used intermittent, stealth-glances to get the gist of her without blowing my cover. After she left, the gentleman next to me, who was watching me draw this, leaned […]
Baby Legs
When: Apr, 2018 Duration: Initial sketch – 20mins, post-sketch touch-ups – 90mins What: A man with baby legs Where: Another cafe in Melbourne. Details: “Why the long face?” “I woke up this morning and I had baby legs.” “I’m sure it’ll pass.” The results of another half finished sketch; this time I failed to get the legs in on […]
You’re Next
When: Apr, 2018 Duration: 90mins What: A man in spandex latin-dancing his way towards his next victim Where: In my head Details: It’s not his moves that will get you it’s his eyes. Sometimes I like to have a go at doing my own silly drawings off the top of my head to exercise my imagination. I started with […]
Good Fat Stores
When: Feb, 2018 Duration: Initial sketch – 30mins, post-touch-ups – 40mins What: Another dude just chilling in a cafe Where: Some cafe in Melbourne Details: Arms are difficult. Well they’re not, they’re difficult if you’re trying to draw them and the inconsiderate person keeps moving or flailing about like a crazy idiot. I can’t quite remember what happened when […]
Reading Man
When: March, 2018 Duration: Initial sketch + watercolour – 60mins, post-touch-ups – 15mins What: A reading man Where: Krimper cafe, Melbourne Details: Here was a man reading in a cafe. I was grateful for him sitting in the same position for pretty much an hour, allowing me to go to town on that there shading. I even had time to […]