I am still out in Spain with limited art supplies; it’s a hard life. Despite this I really like almost all these drawings. I think the word doodle might be a bit misleading or insulting as some these had quite a bit of time and focus spent on them so don’t imagine I can doodle these in 10 minutes flat.
I’ve had a bit more of a focus on architectural drawings, and particularly focusing on keeping things clean and neat, which is not my usual style. There’s also a few drawings based on animated movies which are always nice and easy to draw. My drawing materials this week were mostly my standard gel pens, felt tip pens and pencils probably costing in all about £4. but for the fist time in a long time I used some soft pastel pencils on a picture. I love soft pastels, they’re very forgiving and malleable, this particular set I’d had for many years and just forgotten I had them. I tried to look this set up but it seems they don’t exist any more, anyhow, I wouldn’t have recommended them, they’re a bit scratchy, but that could just be their age.
Without further ado, here are the last 15 days of doodles:
Friday 08-04-16. Big Ben in Gel pen, based on the front cover of a Peter Pan book I bought in Spanish to help learn the language.
Thursday 07-04-16. A blue domed roof in the small Spanish town of Enguera. Drawn in Gel pen and slick ink pen.
Wednesday – 06-04-16. A minion in felt tip, gel pen and pencil crayon. Inspired by a 1000 piece minion jigsaw I am working on.
Tuesday 05-04-16. The Eiffel Tower in Paris. Based on a photo I took a couple of years back when there with work. I actually had to fish of the gel pen work on a second day, but the base pencil drawing was done on the 5th.
Monday 04-04-16. A blue saxophone in felt tip,.I drew this while watching Snow White on the TV.
Sunday 03-04-16. Zazu in slightly off colours, felt tip pen and gel pen. From a picture in my Spanish version of the Lion King book.
Saturday 02-04-16. Pippie Long Stocking. No idea where I got this idea. Another gel pen drawing.
Friday 01-04-16. Gel pen city sketch. I like doing these.
Thursday 31-3-16. A tea pot in red gel pen. I saw a version of this on a notebook and it looked simle enough.
Wednesday 30-03-16. A glass, king, chess piece in gel pen and pastel. Based on a photo I saw on Instagram.
Tuesday 29-03-16. Pencil sketch from life, drawn very late at night while we were all sat outside enjoying a drink. Not a great likeness but people insist in moving.
Monday 28-03-16. Just a pretty lamp post in gel pen.
Sunday 27-03-16. Very quick Easter sketch of chickies in gel pen.