Mostly Maths: Random Thoughts

Sketches 20110410-20110417

I’ve not drawn as often this week as the previous week, and most of my drawings have been either in my iPad or iPod Touch. The first drawing is from a clock we have hanging over a shelf, inspired by Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, done Sunday afternoon with Adobe Ideas in my iPad. Monday I did a quick sketch in the station, of the view of the railway… The train arrived too quick before I could add some detail. This was done in my iPod Touch with Sketch Club.

On Thursday I did a pair of pencil drawings over wooden bowls (inspired by 19th century Japanese scripts) to pyrograph over later. I have not finished them yet. First a little sanding to make it smoother. After drawing with pencil, I burn with the pyrograph, clean with a rubber all pencil marks and sand a little if needed. Several applications of water-soluble mahogany tint to make it look more interesting. A few layers of pore closer (it is like bookbinding white glue) and several layers of rubber-lacque to make it shinier. And finished! So far I’m still in step 2 :) These two can be seen in higher resolution. Click away!

The same day I drew our broken lamp. The ‘head’ is broken and falls over, this is why it looks odd. Done with Sketch Club, iPad. Saturday while I was having coffee I drew a stack of books in front of me, with my Pentel Brush Pen.

On Sunday we had barbecue with some friends, and while on the train I drew the pose of a guy looking through the window and a Chinese boy with a cap. Done with Sketch Club, iPod Touch

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Drawing again, Sketches 20110406 - 20110410

A few days ago I read Michael Nobbs free booklet Start to Draw Your Life, and soon after I bought his ongoing ebook (ongoing because he adds stuff regularly) Sustainable Creativity (this is an affiliate link, the book is 15.95$ and I have liked it, and love the fact that it is an ongoing project). And as a result, I have picked up my brand new brush pens (Sakura Brush Pen and Pentel Color Brush Pen) and an old plain white Moleskine and forgot about how beautiful the blank pages and cover look and started to draw. Draw whatever comes to be in front of me. Draw and do nothing else. Don’t mind about how shitty something looks (hey, I tried drawing my cat below…) Here are this week’s results. Probably next week I’ll have more to post.

If you draw a lot in front of the table… you end drawing lots of cups and chairs.

The clock comes from a picture in Michael’s book, the ship from the cover of a chocolate bar. That was my mid-evening treat, and then I drew Svartifoss, Iceland.

More chairs, TV command over some travel guides and Laia while doing the readathon. This is when I switched from the Sakura to the Pentel pen.Still getting used to it.

Lamp, spice and food rack.

This is everything. Just getting the pad and pen out and drawing. Forget about getting it perfect, just do something and learn. And repeat.