Missing out on the line drawing stage and going straight to areas of tone and colour, using the Lasso Fill tool in Clip Studio Paint. Foot drawn from life. The man in the hat reminds me of a slim version of Alastair Sim.
Slim Sim
Drawstring Bag
This soft drawstring bag is for my dji Osmo Mobile 3, a kind of Steadicam device for filming with a mobile phone (even with my shaky hands!). I bought it immediately pre-pandemic for a short film I had in mind but two years later I haven’t picked up the pieces of that project.
Summer Pruning
The weight of apples and leafy summer growth proved too much of our Howgate Wonder double cordon and one of the main branches collapsed forwards on the patio. It wasn’t broken so we tied it back in, pruned back the majority of this year’s leafy growth and picked up the eight or so apples that fell off during the process. They’re not ripe but we can stew them with a bit of brown sugar and water.
Backpack
Lowe Alpine Edge 22 backpack.
Shoppers
Shoppers and mannequins at the White Rose this morning.
Ink Bottles
Rohrer’s, Winsor & Newton, Pelikan, Noodler’s, Universal stamp pad, FW Acrylic inks (plus Tipp-Ex and Rowney Soluble Matt Varnish . . . drawn with my Lamy AL-star filled with De Atramentis Document Ink, which dries waterproof so that I could add White Nights watercolour with a Daler Aquafine Sable Round.
Broken Bricks
I open the patio windows and step out barefoot to pick up the bird bath, which is supported by a circle of those broken bricks. I stick to the afternoon shadow from the house but the last step out into the sun on the concrete flags is uncomfortably hot.
Hand and Sandal
It’s too warm to sit in the sun this afternoon so these iPad drawings were made in the studio which I’ve managed to keep a little below 90℉.
Around Old Ossett
I’d normally settle down to a session on InDesign on a rainy day but it’s a heatwave keeping us grounded today. In the transfer from my old defunct PC to my iMac, I’m taking advantage of it being easier in InDesign to take images across the gutter.
I’m pleased with how the vectorised place name cartoons have reproduced, slightly simplified into blocks of solid colour, like little woodcuts.
Link
Around Old Ossett at Willow Island Editions, £2.95, post free in the U.K.
Old Hand
I have to admit that I’ve cheated, these iPad drawings are both of my left hand but I flipped the hand holding the pen horizontally in Photoshop.
Drawn with an Apple Pencil in Clip Studio Paint using the ‘Textured pen’ and ‘Watery ink’ brush. I had the iPad fixed on my Sketchboard Pro drawing board.