Sketching for Beginners. Mark Making techniques!
On your marks....get set GO! What is the best first exercise to start with when you are new to drawing? The analogy of an athlete [...]
How to Start to Draw with Ink! Some of my Top Tips!
When I first started sketching I remember that one of my early ambitions was to be able to sketch straight onto the paper in ink! [...]
How to sketch in 5 – 10 minutes!
Too busy? Love to draw? Or love the idea of drawing but never get round to it because you are too busy? This is another [...]
Building a Sketching Kit! What you Need!
Everyone will have a different sketchbook kit. As you develop and grow and commit to your sketching habit, the tools you choose to use will [...]
8 Proven Ways to Build a Successful Sketchbook Habit!
"Habit - a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up." Oxford English Dictionary. I usually hear one of [...]
5 Things We Can Learn from Leonardo da Vinci’s Sketchbooks!
Imagine sketching and making over 13,000 drawings and notes in the course of your lifetime! Leonardo did. He is undoubtedly the godfather of sketching. Anyone [...]
How to Use your Sketchbook to Develop your Ideas into Final Artworks. Sketching One Object Over and Over…..
Perhaps it seems odd that I am starting this blog post with the following word. Teapots. The global coronvirus pandemic that has permeated the fabric [...]
The Small Drawing!
I'm a big fan of small drawings! The first time I started to think about them was when I was visiting Vienna and I came [...]