97/100 - 07.03.2010

josie - gold spray paint on cartridge paper

umm... now, how does one remove spray paint from one's fingers??

93/100 - 03.03.2010

fast portrait drawing practice - vine charcoal

these did'nt turn out very well, I might try them again.

85/100 - 23.02.2010

Handcut lino, ink on mango leaf (??) paper - first test print

43/100 - 12.01.2010

Stone figure. Charcoal and chalk on tinted paper.

40/100 - 09.01.2010

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

35/100 - 04.01.2010

brush and ink

I've found that using brush and ink is fun, but terrifying. I sketch out the drawing lightly in pencil, taking care to get everything looking as good as I can, then I pick up the brush, dip it in the ink, and one wrong move will ruin the whole thing! No hiding any mistakes here...

29/100 - 29.12.2009

Trying to improve on day 27's disappointing effort. A tonal study painted using gouache - an opaque type of watercolour. It's my first time using them - tricky!

28/100 - 28.12.2009

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

27/100 - 27.12.2009

Not too happy with how this turned out (so i reduced the image size :) Trying a new technique that I'm finding difficult. Watercolour.

24/100 - 24.12.2009

A portrait drawn in charcoal on 9 post-it notes.
Listening to: Giant Bomb Cast

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 :).

9/100 - 09.12.2009

Some kinda unsuccessful sketches from the amazing Andrew Loomis book as I didn't have too much time today.

3/100 - 03.12.2009

I didn't have much time today so I attempted a quick sketch on the train. Sketching on a moving train is not an ideal way to draw! Biro on moleskine.
Listened to: The sounds of the train.

1/100 - 01.12.2009

First drawing of 100, so put a bit of effort into it and it took a while. Realised that doing something like this every day for 100 days is going to be quite difficult, but I'm interested to see if I can get better or faster, hopefully learn some new techniques too.

Graphite pencils and putty eraser on cartridge paper. Photo (mine) used as source. Subject not happy about being drawn :)