100/100 - 10.03.2010

Silver monopoly hat - pencil
Last of the 100 days drawings. I drew this in my notepad at the 100 days live event in Dalston, at the request of another 100 dayer.

94/100 - 04.03.2010

Dumbarton Castle - Graphite stick on cartridge paper

I rarely draw outside as I don't find it easy or convenient, but this is one of those rare occasions. I find it difficult to draw random and complex patterns like the rock face in this - i probably should have just made some suggestions and approximations of the detail.
There were children, dogs and families bussing around me as I drew this... my biggest fear being that a wet dog would walk up to me and do that shaking-the-water-from-its-fur thing.

90/100 - 28.02.2010

brass figure - coloured pencil
i gave up on this, coloured pencils are rubbish

83/100 - 21.02.2010

76/100 - 14.02.2010

pencil on cartridge paper

75/100 - 13.02.2010

Pencil on one post it-note. I drew this before on day 62 on 40 post-it notes, this one took a lot less time!

70/100 - 08.02.2010

30 second figure drawing practice

40/100 - 09.01.2010

Pencil portrait - didn't turn out great but have to post it!

38/100 - 07.01.2010

30 second figure sketching - practice!

36/100 - 05.01.2010

loupe - pencil on cartridge paper

28/100 - 28.12.2009

Pencil portrait. It turns out that hands are rather difficult to draw!

25/100 - 25.12.2009

30 Second figure drawings

22/100 - 22.12.2009

21/100 - 21.12.2009

  21/100 - 21.12.2009
Being silly... tried to do a tiny portrait! The head is 2mm across :) I sharpened a pencil as sharp as a pin, it was tricky (and pointless :).

20/100 - 20.12.2009

Pencil figure drawing.

18/100 - 18.12.2009

Graphite drawing of an Indian tuk tuk (auto rickshaw).

Done in honour of some friends who are bravely taking part in the rickshaw run for charity, from their site:

"On the first day of the first month of the year 2010, three intrepid blokes from Glasgow, Scotland will be attempting to drive, push, pull and force an auto-rickshaw from Pokhara in the Himalaya in Nepal down the length of India to the Southern city of Kochi. A journey of some 5000km in a 150cc vehicle that advertises "a top speed of 55kpm , but we've seen it do more downhill !!" Its just as well we're starting at the top and heading down the way."

They are raising money for the Mercy Corps who provide humanitarian community support and relief to poor countries in Africa.  The guys' site is linked below, please give generously :D

http://www.rickshawrunglasgow.com

17/100 - 17.12.2009

30 second figure sketches

14/100 - 14.12.2009

Day 14 and still going.  Today is another practice day, another round of 30 second figure sketches - I should probably check a book or something but for now I'm hoping this is a good way to practice... Anyway, I did a few pages full of these sketches, the one shown here was a sketch I quite liked. I should really get some cheap paper for doing these sketches but for now I'll ruin the decent stuff.

Pencil on cartridge paper

Listening to: Rebel FM Podcast

12/100 - 12.12.2009

Tricky to explain this one... I took a macro shot of a small transparent plastic skull (from halloween), inverted the picture so it was like a negative, then drew that negative photo in pencil (and upside down too :), then I scanned in the drawing and inverted it back to normal. Phew!

Pencil on cartridge paper. 

flickr page

11/100 - 11.12.2009

Just time for a quick sketch, I tried a few sketches of this head from different angles and picked the one I thought was best to post.