Archive for the 'sketchbook' Category

Underground Academics

sydney May 27th, 2009

Is there some kind of conference on? Because there seems to be an unusual number of professorial-looking people on the Jubilee line these days.

Burlesque Life Drawing

sydney April 28th, 2009

Fun night of life drawing with a burlesque-costumed model with the London Life Drawing Society… I always wind up doing my best drawings of everyone but the model!

If burlesque becomes banned, what about burlesque life-drawing? Is it kinky because it has clothes?

Ponies!

sydney April 24th, 2009

Just a few ponies from a sketching/walking expedition.. some bunnies and deer, too, but they were a bit shy.
pony sketch
pony sketch
pony sketch

Arty Boys

sydney January 16th, 2009

Here’s some arty boys from my sketchbook winnow… I think all three of these are from Annecy last year (click for larger if you like):

arty boys

Dorking Out at the Medieval Festival

sydney August 27th, 2008

Last weekend I went to the medieval festival at Herstmonceaux Castle, where a fabulously geeky, if damp, time was had by all. Pictures of me in a fairy princess getup have most unfortunately all mysteriously disappeared.

The amazing thing about this festival are the dozens and dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of re-enactors who don’t only spend the weekend in meticulous period dress, but camp in period tents and cook over period fire eating period food– and fight some pretty serious battles in head-to-toe period armour!

I did masses of drawings but only a fraction of the ones I wanted to, with the amazing costumes and scenes and horses and objects everywhere! Mostly I focused on the costume for this trip, here’s a couple of pages:

Long Time No Post

sydney March 31st, 2008

Yikes it’s been ages since I’ve posted.. very tiring production; also, the dailies room where I’m working is really terrible for drawing in. I got only a few drawings of the folks around here (click for larger, resemblance to persons living is entirely coincidental):

Dailies

meetings

more meetings

Underground

sydney November 6th, 2007

Another day, another tube ride. If I’m luck I can wedge myself against the back wall and do some drawing.

underground

Indulge me

sydney October 9th, 2007

hubby

Some sketches of my babe obsessing over his work.. isn’t he adorable? :D

City Farm

sydney August 12th, 2007

I’ve been meaning to draw at the local mini-farm for ages. There was one rooster with a hideous but useful disease which revealed some of his featherless anatomy in a kind of cross-section.

farm animals

Dailies

sydney July 11th, 2007

Not much time to draw these days, but there’s always dailies:
dailies

We’re all getting kind of tired..

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