ART | PORTRAIT PRACTICE

The pursuit of perfection

As much as I love creating sketches of panda's and other whimsical little illustrations, it's always annoyed me that I can't draw realistically. For some reason, I find faces, hands and feet really difficult to draw. I think this is partly because I've got it in my head that to draw someone, it has to look exactly like them - and that pressure just stops me from even starting.

New year, new perspective

So this year, I am making a conscious effort to try and draw people and specifically their faces. More importantly, I'm trying to remember to just enjoy the process of doing it and not expect the outcome to be absolutely perfect. In line with this, I've had a recent spurt of practising portraits and I'm actually really pleased (and surprised!) with the drawings and paintings I have done so far. Nope, they definitely don't look exactly like the person, but I'm pleased with the composition and more to the point, I really enjoyed doing them! :)

Let me know what you think in the comments below!

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ART | A LITTLE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE...

I love looking back through old photos, facebook albums and anything else I can get my hands on. In my last minute packing for my upcoming move to Brighton, I came across these pieces of artwork in a rather dusty plastic folder tucked behind our piano in the garage and so I thought I'd share a few of my faves...

All of these are from my days of life drawing at college and it's made me remember just how much I enjoyed it. I created them using charcoal and chalk on fine textured charcoal paper and looking at them now, think that the combination has worked really well. I will definitely think about signing up for some classes once I'm in Brighton.

Have you ever tried life drawing classes?

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ART | DIGITAL PANDA DOODLES

SO, my obsession with drawing pandas continues. And now, my pandas have gone digital! I really like the contrast between imperfect hand drawn elements and perfectly symmetrical digital elements and so I decided to mess around with some of my sketches on the computer.

I created my backgrounds and added the text that you can see in the images using Inkscape. The font I used is called Amatic SC by Vernon Adams which is not only ridiculously cute but also free for all to use - whether that's for private use or commercial use (yipee!). I downloaded both the regular and bold weight from Font Squirrel, which has lots of other beautiful fonts available to download. Finally I edited and created the final images using Adobe Photoshop Elements. I will post more as I make them, I've been so busy lately it's just a matter of finding the time, but I hope you enjoy these until then!

Thank you for dropping by, I'll try not to leave it so long until my next post...

Let me know what you think of my doodles in the comments below!

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