Day: March 19, 2020

Distant View

Continuing with my Clip Studio Paint line drawing tutorial, this exercise, again closely based on an example in the Tips for Digital Outling! tutorial by Eridey, is intended to show how a thicker line can suggest that a subject is in the foreground.

The figure and the landscape are taken from two sketchbook drawings. The landscape is line for line like the original, except that I moved the house, which would have been hidden by the figure.

The man with the bag was a lightning sketch of a passer by but I had to change the perspective as my composition required a low viewpoint. As I firmed up details from the quick sketch, he became more of a countryman. With those hills behind him, I couldn’t help thinking that he might be a character in a James Herriot story.

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Sandal Castle

It’s good to see the display boards are now in place at Sandal Castle, including my illustrations on this panel on the bailey which overlooks the barbican, drum towers and keep. I like the contrasting styles by the five artists who have each illustrated a panel. In my photograph you can just make out Liz Kay’s board – a bird’s-eye view of the castle in its heyday – which has been set up on the viewing platform on top of the keep.

We called at Sandal this morning to see the panels and, for once, there wasn’t a stiff breeze blowing up over the ramparts! A dunnock was singing its rather rushed, jingly song from a fence post as we walked across the bridge to the bailey.

  • My ‘Sandal Castle Guide’
  • Yes, there’s a Robin Hood connection with Sandal, this booklet features a walk around the castle.
  • You can still see damage from the Civil War siege.
  • The castle had its own kitchen and bakehouse.
  • A team of oxen and horse yoked together were used during the construction of the castle.
  • The well-preserved sally port was blocked long ago.
  • We have accounts of exactly what foods were stored in the castle’s larder.
  • Remnants of the great hall.
  • A garderobe: a medieval privy.
  • Oinment jars.
  • Civil war defences.
  • The Castle today.
  • Aerial view
  • The barbican.
  • gardrobe
    Privy shaft.
  • Castle folk.