Category Archives: sketching
Mandevillas
I completely botched the shadows for this (they’re way too dark—and probably the wrong colour 😆), but the flowers and leaves aren’t too bad.
Sketch of Paul Dibble’s Plains Pioneer sculpture
We stopped in Ngatea for about 10 minutes today, and I took the opportunity to do this quick sketch. Here’s a photo of the sculpture, from the other side.
Mission Bay clock tower at night
It’s a small clock tower, but I like how it looks lit up with neon at night. I did a quick pencil sketch, made a few colour and other notes, and applied coloured pencil at home.
The car
This was meant to be our Toyota Ipsum, so the perspective and proportions are quite out of whack, but it was a fun quick sketch. I find that, for certain subjects, if I use too small a piece of paper (this was A4), and I start too big, I end up squashing things up. ProbablyContinue reading “The car”
