Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
I’ve been posting on Instagram more regularly since I worked out how to upload images from my desktop iMac. It’s pretty much what I post on this wildyorkshire.blog but with the emphasis more on the images. Recently it’s been mainly cartoons interspersed with a few wild flowers from our lockdown exercise walks but I will have to get back to a bit more drawing from nature for my Wild Yorkshire diary in The Dalesman.
You can find my Instragram page at www.instagram.com/wildyorkshire
Mattias Adolfsson describes his alter ego cartoon character, as ‘always clueless’ and in this emojis exercise from his Art of Sketching course, that was the expression that appealed to me. The idea is to evoke an expression with the minimum of marks, so, apart from ‘anger’, top right, I’ve dispensed with eyebrows.
Could I evoke a familiar face using the same minimal format? My favourite amongst them is Boris. Probably one of the few times the words ‘Boris’ and ‘favourite’ have appeared in the same sentence recently!