A Quick Preliminary Sketch For Emily's Adventure's Part 2 (a Reminder Of Part 1 Here). Today: Emily And

A quick preliminary sketch for Emily's Adventure's Part 2 (a reminder of part 1 here). Today: Emily and Woolly the Mammoth go exploring.

(Baby hamster-cheeks a-go-go!)

And here's the finished piece! Emily and Woolly go exploring...

I'm mostly pleased with how it turned out - really pleased with how Emily looks (particularly the whole rodeo-baby thing she's got going on), not so pleased with Woolly's trunk. But on the whole ... it's not bad.

Definitely not a game-changing still life. Just an excuse to try out the watercolour pencils I bought this week. I've never used them before, hence blotchy shadow-ness.

I think I might need to be a bit more liberal with the colouring before I add the water, too ... it all just looks a bit faint and, well, pencilly as it is. But not too shabby a first go, I guess.

(Plus, unlike at life drawing today, I got to eat my subject once I got bored.)

(Apples are easier than people. People are harrrrd.)

So, the good news is, I’ve been made full-time. The bad news is, I’ve been made full-time. Time for drawing has been severely cut. But I’m not very well today and confined to my sick bed, so I’ve actually had a chance to do some doodling. 

I’ve been watching a LOT of Sherlock Holmes recently (Jeremy Brett, obviously) and this is the result of that. That, and all the cold medication I’m currently taking…

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It had been a really bad week at the office.

(Lesson learned: hands are hard.)

Legs, Bums and Tums

I am going to a life drawing class on Friday, my first ever. Boobs and bums, yay!