New Phone

Interacting with brand new, hardly-out-of-the-box Blackberry (I think – couldn’t have been an iPhone because he had to read the instructions)…

Signal to Noise

This drawing is back to front – the original image, drawn with a big, thick sharpie is on the other side of the page. I flipped the page over and hatched the outlines that bled through, then added some more linework. Just to see what would happen. I’m quite pleased with the effect. Sometimes peoples’ accessories – such as this man’s glasses – can be more eye-catching than their facial features, which sometimes melt into the background noise of the crowd.

Cat Gut-ya Tongue

I saw this photo of Roger Federer in the newspaper on the train home from work and – Hey Presto!

And yes, the title of the post is the worst pun ever.

And yes, puns are the lowest form of humour…

Figure study

This was a warm-up study for a painting. The underlying sketch was drawn in about a minute or thereabouts from a live model. Worked over it a few weeks later and again, a couple of days after that. Something I recommend trying if you have drawings you’re not that happy with. If you don’t really like them in the first place, you’ve got nothing to loose by adding to them, overlaying or just scribbling to see what happens.

Contemplation

You can almost hear the wheels turning. What if? Why? How come? Could it be that? Or…