Birthday Card.

It was my dads birthday the other week and I made him this A5 drawing and popped it on a plain card. Cards are boring and drawings you can take off the front are fun. 

Hannya: The Hannya mask portrays the souls of women who have become demons due to obsession or jealousy.

Hannya mask A5 drawing.

Sketchbooking.

This is the first update on the progression of my work during the summer. Here are a few things I've been doing this week in my newly made sketchbooks. 

Mixed Media Houses.

Dripping Ink Skull.

Skull and Daisy.

Mixed Media Block of Houses.

Mixed Media Colour Leaves.

Mixed Media Coloured Leaves.

Mixed Media Cacti.

Pencil on Black Paper Whale.

Two Tone Ink Drawing of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tracing Paper Removable Sunglasses.

Wax Crayon and Ink Yoda.

Wax Crayon, Ink and Pencil Bikes. 

Observational drawing at the UEA (University of East Anglia).

For today's workshop, we made our way to the UEA. Here we were asked to make 13 different drawings of around the buildings, the things inside the buildings, the architecture, etc. These drawings had to be based around the texture of the thing, angular drawings and drawings which show distance. We were also asked not just too use ordinary everyday materials, this meant using pencil crayons, colour marker pens and so on. I went on to draw a multiple amount of things but these two were the ones that really surprised me with what I can do. The first is an image of a small vase of flowers on a table top with a chair behind, I did this piece to portray how the chair was in the distance and in the background. I used complimentary colours in this piece. The second piece is the view from behind a Rodger Moore sculpture, looking in on the sainsbury centre. This image is also meant to show distance.

Flower Vase and Chair.

Henry Moore and Sainsbury Centre.

University workshop photographs.

Here are a few photographs of what I have been doing during my first few workshops at university!

Drawing machine.

Kite making.

Drawing machine.

Drawing tools.

Mark making techniques.

Mark making techniques.

Mark making techniques.

Black And White Drawings.

Recently I have found out that I rather like making completely contrasting black and white drawings. I have been experimenting with different ideas, where the background is black and any part of the image/detail is in white. To start off with, I found this to be a bit of a challenge, I found that the pens i was using were either too thick, or would bleed through the paper making the drawing a mess, and ruining the white in the drawings. After some experimenting, I have come to start perfecting this technique of drawing. Here are some of the images I have drawn using this technique so far!

Hot Air Balloon Skull.

Planet And Pyramid Skull.

Sun And Moon.

Crying Skull.

Each of these images are available to order as digital prints here!

Sketch to finished piece.

For the first time, I sketched down a simple little idea yesterday so I didn't forget it, and today I actually made it into something. It's strange because in always jotting down ideas but have never done anything about them. Must like this one in particular. Here is the final outcome, ghost/ghoul crying skull, (white paper, black acrylic paint, black marker pen). 

Heinz.

I've been playing around with lots of different silly ideas and techniques recently for my new college project. Here is a small piece I've just finished. It's orange acrylic ink finger prints I've made into happy beans with a permanent marker. Sort of pun on hi/hey/hello and Heinz.