125-Pen sketch

Sketched at Round Hill (I think) on the Sunderland to Whitehaven Cycle Route. I had intended to do more but the adverse weather put paid to that idea.

121 Pencil Sketch

After today's earlier sheep sketches I decided to do a more detailed study from a photo I took last week.

113-120 Animal Sketches

Sketching lambs feeding is harder than you think, they move around a lot. My ego tells me to trash these sketches because they're not very good but they do show where I am at and one of the aims of this blog is to show my progress as an artist, warts an all.

111-112 Animal Sketches

Some quick sketches out and about this morning. I don't think I've ever sketched animals 'live' before so it was a new experience, plenty of room for improvement. I did try using a fountain pen which was a bit temperamental and didn't really help the quality of the line. (Not that I'm making excuses).

107-110

103-106

I watched a video on You-Tube last night where Andreas Deja talked about his career and inspirations and I was inspired to get out my Ken Hultgren book on 'The Art of Animal Drawing'. (You can watch the video here). I was also keen to try out my new Wolff sketching pencils! These drawings were copied from Ken's book in an attempt to begin to get a better understanding of animal anatomy.

96-Rabbit Sketch

Sketched from a photo taken on one of my early morning walks near the Gill Bridge.