Little Time Machine

Sketchbook

  • Life drawing with Spunkrock

    Life drawing with Spunkrock

    Wonderful life drawing session with Queer Life Drawing and Spunkrock today. I tried adding heads in for the first time… sorta works?

    Sketching is a fun challenge. As a photographer I see the way the light falls, then I sketch it and well it’s not quite the same. It would be nice to learn how to add shade to a sketch to show that. For now, it’s great that I can sketch something I’m happy with.

    Sketch of a woman sitting down. She has one arm resting on something. She's naked, in pink ink with blue hair.
    Sketch of a woman lying down on her back.
    Sketch of a woman sitting on the floor with her back to the artist.
    Pencil sketch of a naked woman sitting.
    Pencil sketch of a naked woman resting both hands above their head on the wall.
    Pencil sketch of a naked woman leaning against a wall.
    Sketch of a woman lying down on a bed, resting her head on her hands. She has one leg raised above the other.

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  • Enterprise E

    Enterprise E

    Fancied trying to sketch something that wasn’t a naked person. It was tricky. I kept trying to get it right and the problem there is that’s not my skill. My skill is, if I can even call it that, is letting go of perfectionism. It’s being fast, fluid, and chaotic. The work should be more about the moment than about photo realism. The imperfections make it my work and no-one else’s. It’s hard to get into that headspace.

    If this is anything it’s a good bit of art for Captain Picard Day.

    Colourful sketch of the USS Enterprise E at warp. Imagine a kid did it.

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  • Queer life drawing

    Queer life drawing

    Good to see Queer Life Drawing return with model Kiwi. It’s a fun online life drawing session. Follow them on Insta if you’d like to know more.

    This was the first time I started with a pencil. Overlayed with ink and erased the pencil to create the finished look. Works quite well.

    Sketch with blue frame. Person is lying down with a yellow squiggly background behind them and coloured in blue.
    Sketch of a naked person lying down. There’s a pink frame around the sketch and the person is coloured in pink.
    Sketch with green frame of a person sat down backwards on a chair.
    Sketch with light pink frame of a naked person sitting. They are against a green background.

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  • My first sketchbook

    My first sketchbook

    As I now enjoy sketching I bought myself some pens and a sketchbook. It was much cheaper than a new iPad. I like that I can retain some of the style I developed with the iPad but also make it slightly different. It’s fun to play. All I have to do is learn to ignore that perfectionist voice inside me.

    Sketch of the back of a naked male bodied person. They are outlined in black on a blue background.
    Sketch of naked male bodied person in black outline. There is a blue scribbled background around them.
    Back of a naked male bodied person. They are outlined in black with orange colouring inside and green outside.

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  • My first sketches

    My first sketches

    After Eurovision I wanted to take a few days off and relax. As I couldn’t draw I figured it might be fun to try that. I bravely booked myself on a life drawing night and went along to see what would happen.

    I wrote in depth about the experience on my newsletter Hello Computer, but the short story is that it went well. At least I was happy with the outcome, which is a first for me and drawing.

    The featured image here is me, sat naked on a rock. It didn’t feel right to post naked sketches of others if I wasn’t confident enough to post one of myself.

    Sketch of naked female bodied person lying down. They are resting on one arm and coloured in purple on an orange background.
    A sketch of the female form. The woman is standing cross legged. She is coloured in purple with a black outline on a green background.
    A sketch of the female form. The woman is sat cross legged. She has a red and purple outline on a dark purple background.
    A sketch of the female form. The woman is standing arching her back slightly with her back to the artist. She is outlined in yellow and black, coloured in light blue on a darker blue background.
    A sketch of the female form. The woman is coloured in green on a purple background. She is standing towards the artist.

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