Sketching at the Science Museum

Sketching at Saatchi Gallery

I wasn't extremely productive today and only ended up with a single sketch.

Life drawing on tablet

I started with the same simple app I used last time and then switched to Autodesk Sketchbook which is much more powerful and feature-rich. While screen size and stylus precision remain natural limitations of this medium, now I feel like it's my own skill (or more correctly lack of it) that restricts me, far from being capped by application possibilities. Fun.

There was another person with a tablet in the class today - first I though that was iPad, but the screen was even bigger. When I took a closer look later it turned out to be a tablet PC running ordinary Windows and Photoshop. Apparently it was also pressure-sensitive making it an ultimate drawing machine.

Sketching in Richmond

I tried to sketch on my phone before, but that my first attempt to draw on a tablet with bigger screen. I was better than I expected, but the application which was the best one to use with phone turned out to be less convenient with more screen real estate available. The worst was the lack of adjustments for brush size, and I also realised soon that the style of drawings was defined more by the application than by myself.

It's definitely worth giving it another go with a better app. Any suggestions?

Sunday walk

St George's gardens:

British Museum:

New Oxford Street:

Late lunch:

Life drawing

Life drawing

Sketching at the Barbican and around

A church and an office block towers visible from the inner court:

Palm trees on the upper concrete galleries:

Just loved that "Robbo" on the banksy-ish rat's sign:

John Bunyan's grave at the Bunhill Fields cemetery:

Life drawing at Candid Arts

For the first time I attended the class on Wednesday and that's probably why I finally found a male model there:

The last one I did in a new technique advised by tutor - first the sheet is covered black with charcoal and then you draw with your rubber and maybe white chalk:

Sketching at The Wallace Collection

I didn't expect the attendance to be free as the interior of the place is unusually luxurious for a public gallery. Visitors are also different:

Paintings, furniture and decorated vases don't make the best sketching material, but the enormous collection of medieval armour provides quite a few opportunities:

Life drawing at Candid Arts

Sketching at the British Museum

A Chinese lion figurine:

Oliver Cromwell's wax death-mask:

Pericles:

Sketching at the British Museum

That's not my mistake, the Egyptian statue above has only one ear indeed. Do you know why? I failed to google the answer quickly.

Life drawing