For the Sketch Hub - What would you like to learn to draw?
Animals in different poses/angles
Still life objects (Like the keys we practice in week 2)
Humans (Faces, hands, feet, postures etc)
Plants and nature
I bought a blending stump. It really does make smudging easier. Over these past few weeks I realized I really enjoy creating patterns/texture. The repetition really is soothing.The fourth succulent
I already had a blending stump but until we started doing these sketches, I didn’t know what to do with it. It’s really added texture and shape to your leaves here
I started to shade in the leaves, but ai preferred them with less shading and my pen kept making blobs. So I stopped at this stage.
Good morning everyone, I hope you had a lovely weekend.
These are my sketches for this weeks sketch hub:
and I’m also working on a new course: colourful pencil portraits. This is a sneak peek:
I decided to replace the original course with two new courses- colourful pencil portraits and wonderful watercolour portraits. Participants of the ‘old’ course will be added to both and I will include the warm up sketches and exercises too- I’m currently going through all my materials and figuring out what will go in which course and what I’m refilming. The old course was a bit too big for its own good which is why I’m changing things.
The perspective is a bit off, and I am struggling with random ink blobs, but I an enjoying shading with ball point.
It’s fun to try to make everyday objects look special with shading. Of course this is only working because the subjects themselves are simple shapes, relatively speaking.
Interesting experiment. I love the color of this fountain pen ink but only for writing because it is not waterproof So it was fun to exploit its one “fault” lol. definitely need to work on my waterbrish control. Water kind of dripped so the top of my wheelbarrow look like it was eaten by rust!
I had a lot of fun trying to shade these with my ballpoint pen. I changed pens because I read that it is easier to control ink flow (and therefore get lighter lines) with a stick ballpoint instead of the click ball point I had been using. To me the shading on the left side of my shovel is not quite right. it doesn’t seem to go in on that side. Maybe my shadow is not quite dark enough? Ideas? Or is it just me being critical?
Hi Sandy, I am looking at the shadow and I made the shadow a bit darker on my ipad - is that what you mean? I dit not look at the reference picture again so not sure where the shadow was in the photo, I just added it using my intuition.
I’ve had a Pentel brush pen for years but have never used it because it is so hard to control. So I dusted it off and tried again. Still hard to control lol.
I love that you have this pen and I agree, it is hard to control. The trick is to draw a little larger than you would using ballpoint pen and also to embrace the irregular lines, it gives a lot of character to the sketch! I love these!
Not my best, but okay for a first try/quick sketch. Definitely a subject I would not have attempted before. The negative space approach helped though I still ended up with wonky proportions 🤪
you did really well! This was absolutely the most complicated sketch we have done so far! You really captured the movement and it looks like they are fighting!
Still loving drawing tigers. No idea why lol. But I do know that ai enjoy outlining the stripes. Go figure. I will be sorry to see the tigers finished. I think a good follow up would be giraffes - spots and long necks, what’s not to like? 🤣
Giraffes is a great idea. I am trying to avoid AI photos for references.
Tigers are really hard! I ran out of room on the page for his chin and neck, but since they were hard to see in the reference photo, that’s okay.
Very expressive
Glad I came back to tiger week. Hard but fun.
I like how the eye turned out on this one.
Love your tigers
Hmmm looks a bit crazed lol
I love the hypnotic eyes
I always find pencil (and charcoal) easier with smudging because I really struggle with creating volume with hatching. So this tree in pencil was easier for me than the previous tree in ball point pen. Also I found it easier to not get totally lost in all the branches . Maybe I am (finally) getting better at handling complex items.
I like my acorn better. 😆
Nice.
I enjoyed drawing the buds at different angles, but it just doesn’t have the glow of the leaf in the photo.
I really struggled with this, but I promised myself I would share the good, the bad, and the ugly lol. So here it is. I think my least favorite so far. I got really lost when ai tried to add foliage, so I stopped lol.
Thanks for sharing Sandra, I think it is great to tell people that some days you struggle with your art as we all struggle sometimes. I think your tree looks great btw - I feel like I am looking up at the branches. There is a second tree for sketch 5, see if that one is easier.
Not sure it looks like bark but I enjoyed creating the textures
well done, I love all the scribbles and textures!
Something not quite right in the perspective . it looks like it is face toward us, other than the feet which are moving away from us. A contortionist chicken lol
I think she is just looking over her shoulder?
I’m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille lol.
I’ve discovered I enjoy drawing chickens
So glad you are enjoying it, Chickens are Fun!
A hairy short neck chicken lol
Lovely!
Hi everyone, tomorrow is the start of Oak Week, we are looking at these majestic trees and at some details too!
After a horrific move across town by foot and hand dolly lol, I finally found time to get back to my sketching . And voila a rooster.
That sounds like hard work, hope you have all moved in to the new place and settling! The drawing is lovely! 🥰
I’m inordinately happy with my first chicken lol. Maybe because I really like the color purple. But I think I got her beady eye right, and I am very proud I was able to fit her on one page in my sketchbook without making weird proportions.
She's beautiful
Final moth. I am not so satisfied with my butterfly/moths. But I am excited to try the chickens and roosters next. Something a little more silly lol.
All of the ghost lines makes it look
like the moth’s right wing is fluttering lol.
Last butterfly. I got the proportions off (didn’t plan out the whole thing ahead in my mind, so I got the flower, then the body, too big and had to spill over to next page 🙄 Proportions to fit everything I want onto my page is something I struggle with, al lot.
I decided to take advantage of my 4 color bic ballpoint lol. Not the right blue but that okay.
Wonderful! I also like drawing with multi colour pens! Are you starting to find the ballpoint easier?
I know butterflies are supposed to be smooth but I kind of like my scribble filling in the black.
Lovely 🦋 I think the scribble works really well!
Today was key drawing party lol.
So much fun!
Normally in a complex subject like this with all the little curls etc I would get lost and get frustrated (ex. pinecones and those swirl kind of succulents) but this time I felt free to just scribble to represent the swirls and I was not going for exact copy, just the impression. So instead of frustration I felt joy lol. Also I loved when Irene said (paraphrasing here) “I don’t go for perfect art. Imperfect art is better than no art and quantity counts”
The texture is wonderful, it’s a lovely, intricate drawing!
My sketches for the week.
I actually found these easier then the butterflies 🤪
Irene, when I click on any of the links for the tiger lessons it opens up the teddy lessons from week 1, so I think the wrong lessons have been uploaded
My latch in the shadow looks round while the part in light is not lol. But that is okay.I like how the spiral thing turned out
Great sketch! 🥰
I noticed that lots of you are sharing pictures of what you made in the sketch hub. It’s fabulous and I love seeing them all! ❤️
I also just want to say that there is no pressure to start with week one and work yourself up to today.
New people will keep joining in (hopefully) and at some point there are many weeks to ‘catch up’ on.
Feel free to skip the older weeks, or choose the ones you love the most or just start with the latest week. Whatever works for you!
Keep the pictures coming! I love seeing them!
On to week 2. This is really a beautiful key to draw with just the right amount of intricacy. Maybe black ballpoint would have been better though lol
Beautiful! I love the blue actually
This was really fun.
So cute, I love how chilled she looks! 🐻❄️
The lama in ballpoint pen. I’m liking the light sketchy lines from trying to get the shape right.
So lovely!
Super cute!!
Third “teddy”
Brilliant! Lovely little froggy 🐸
Two Teddies lol Figuring out ballpoint pen drawing and shading while preparing for a big move. I tried posting before, but I’m not sure it worked. Sorry if this is a repeat.
What cute faces, they are waiting to be hugged
Hi my lovelies, we are sketching Butterflies and months this week - the videos should be available now. I really enjoyed sketching these, the symmetry was a bit tricky.
Let me know if you enjoyed it and in the meantime, I am thinking of our theme for next week...
Irene
The fun thing is that I am learning whilst making these, just as you are.
Maybe not so much about how to sketch, but I am learning to slow down and build a new style community alongside all the other things I am working on.
Even after two weeks I notice a new momentum in my own drawing. ( I am only a few days ahead of you all :) )
I just opened the doors to my new Sketch Hub and I’m a little nervous as it is a place that will grow over the coming months. There are currently 5 videos to watch and every week I’ll add more.
I’m super curious what you think so please let me know in the comments!
Ps. You can try the Sketcb Hub for free for the first month.
I've just thought of something else that would be really interesting to draw - fungi! I know there are some in the Autumn coloured pencils course, but my husband is a very keen fungi enthusiast and he's just come home from his walk with a phone full of photos of all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Some are huge brackets that stick out from trees, some are teeny tiny elf cups, some are bold and simple, some are frilly, some shaggy and some lacy.