Day: December 18, 2018

Victoria Band, Horbury

Victoria Band, Horbury

Members of Horbury’s Victoria Band were playing carols and Christmas songs at Di Bosco’s coffee & champagne bar on Thursday, which gave me a chance to try drawing them on my iPad Pro, using ProCreate.

Victoria Band
Victoria Band

The man on the right is playing a bass trombone but he ‘gets a lot of tenor notes out of it too’.

I like to set up pencil, wash and pen on separate layers but I found myself working on the wrong layer several times. For a drawing from life like this, I don’t think that matters, as I want the initial pencil to show through anyway, I don’t need to hide the pencil layer as I might in a more finished illustration.

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Cat on a Trampoline

Cat on a trampoline

The cat that is usually to be found lurking in the border by our bird feeders leaves its lair and sets off down our garden then makes its way through a gap in the hawthorn hedge. After all that waiting and watching, it’s ready for a work-out. It jumps onto next door’s trampoline and starts clawing around the entrance flap in the safety mesh. It evidently enjoys that, as it slinks in through the slit and indulges in another burst of claw-sharpening on the mesh from the inside.

Next it walks around the perimeter, then decides to attempt to climb up the netting on the far side. It almost gets to the top.

But that’s it for this session, it leaves by the entrance flap, jumps down and walks off down the garden path.