Just started reading a book on perspective, but thought that I shouldn’t be too ambitious to start with.
Fence
Category: Drawing
Cherries and Hawthorn
Cherries and hawthorn boughs at the Hospice this morning.
Slightly Foxed
This fox turned out to be a bit too wide so I squashed it horizontally in Photoshop. I’ll soon be on to the lesson in Introduction to Procreate that tells me how to do this within the program.
Drawing Assist
Theoretically you could cut the time you spend drawing portrait in Procreate by half by activating ’Drawing assist’ mode, in this case everything that I drew on the right half of the screen was mirrored on the left. In reality faces are rarely perfectly symmetrical so you’d keep turning off drawing assist to add any asymmetrical features.
As this is practice on my Introduction to Procreate course, I stayed in ‘Drawing assist’ for the whole drawing.
Ficus
My thanks to Beth and Ian who ran the Art Tour: Drawing from Observation at the Apple Store in Leeds on Thursday morning. We headed for Trinity Kitchen and settled down to draw using Procreate on the latest version of the iPad Pro. This was the central tree, I think that it’s a weeping fig, Ficus benjamina, with a ‘trunk’ of intertwined stems.
Cherry at the Hospice
The cherry trees surrounding the Hospice are all the same age and currently they’re being lopped back. Hopefully they’ll burst into blossom again, but we might have to wait until next year until they’ve fully recovered.
Trees at the Hospice
Trees and shrubs at the Prince of Wales Hospice: hawthorn, sycamore (?) and elder.
Moving On
Barbara’s brother John was transferred to the Prince of Wales Hospice on Halfpenny Lane, Pontefract, yesterday.
Cafe Society
I’ve had a lot of opportunities to draw people in cafes recently.
These were at Pinderfields, which is large and airy, so it’s possible to sketch people at the more distant tables without, I hope, them noticing.
Holdall
Drawn with a Fine Mitsubishi Uniball Eye, blacks inked in with a 1.0 mm Sakura Pigma Sensei.