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“It is in the order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is”.

(Frederick Franck, ‘The Zen of Seeing’).


Wednesday 30 May 2012

141 -142 Lost






Thought I'd have a go sketching a couple of characters from 'Lost' as I'm finally getting it watched courtesy of LoveFilm. Ben Linus is a great character and has some very funny lines whilst Sawyer only has the two.... "hey freckles, and son of a B...." Any-who, these were drawn using the Copic Edition of SketchBook Pro which is a free download.
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Just an update on the Free Copic Edition and it's limitations. You can save your work but if you use several layers they get merged together and you can only open the layers using the full Sketchbook Pro software. However you can save your work, including layers, as a Photoshop PSD file.

Wednesday 9 May 2012

139 - 140



A couple of sketches from a recent drive to South Shields

Thursday 3 May 2012

138

A painting from a photo taken at Monkey Valley in France a couple of years ago.

Wednesday 2 May 2012

137


Pen & Copic sketch


Tuesday 1 May 2012

135 & 136 Northumberland Coast - Holy Island




A couple of sketches of Lindisfarne in Northumberland.