Queen further investigations

2 of my better drawings from late last year

Superman, lion with a rose. I prefer my drawings when they look like they have more depth than just line form skill excercises type things.

Iris Sleeping

Drawings of Iris sleeping. From life, when she was sleeping.

Baby Drawings Part Umpteen

Important fundamental stuff. Where would I be without my real subject

Bardot studies

I got it into my head the other week to participate in caricaturama 3000, whoever it was the next time, and it turned out to be Brigitte Bardot. Which actually was really interesting. Youtube's the best place to go first of course. Her sexuality and beauty was all there in the flesh and the movement, it was natural and rare, even in low res. Almost sinisterly powerful. Not like now when some people seem to measure beauty by the amount of money an ordinary faced stiff lady spends on surgery and dodgy photoshopping.

So I sketched and sketched and it was hit and miss, but I had missed this frenzy of drawing, searching out the truth in lines and squiggles.

Long Mummies

Celebripencil Funningtons

I bought some trashy celebrity magazines the other day, and promised myself I would justify this filthy act by drawing pictures from them, so here they are.

incidental drawings from my life.

mainly baby based, this is what we find

Developing Binks

Those were from life, these are the next stage (where this process is leading is a philosophical question):

Baby Wabies

Phone conversation babies.

(I've not been able to draw as much this week, not exactly because I haven't had time, more because I've been incredibly tired. Baby waking very often in the night. We're working on it.)



Iris likes rice and squeaking.

Intricate Baby

Little Iris Early Efforts

Some of my earlier drawings of little Iris.





Clunky, but I had just had a massive blood transfusion.




Most from life, some from photos, some a bit of both, but with the experience of being around her all the time.

Stripeless Tigers

I think this might be my 200th post! I suppose that means I've done a lot of drawings over the last couple of years. 4 years?





This is a step on the way to combining pure shape-excitement with intensity picture-excitement. What I like just now best is pure pencil, or pure watercolour... other things complicate my thinking unnecessarily. I don't need those extra textures... I need to think in pure pictures. Form dealt with first, then colour in a way where it's doable.

Sorry for the delay + straight laced birds

Hello

Sorry it's been a while since I did an update, I was suddenly cut off from the internet, then I moved house, now they say it'll be the 16th that we'll back online but I wouldn't even trust that.

I had all this stuff planned too. Borrowing a computer just now. bear with me, I do still draw.

Here are some birdies to prove it.

Pregnant plus Kitties equals Today

A couple of these MAY have been blogged before, but they've been worked on since.





I am pregnant and I like kitties.




















I like the glassy eyes of cats.











And drawing on extremely cheap wrinkly paper.





Unfortunately some boobs follow.