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There’s a playground near where I live which is always completely deserted at ten o’clock on a Sunday morning. Since I have a sleep-phobic toddler, I’ve often been up for four hours by then, so we’re able to take full advantage of this private space.
This weekend, we arrived at the sandpit in perfect conditions - […]

I spent my sixth to my 13th year pretty much doing nothing but drawing horses. You know little girls and horses.
I got so that I could draw them to my satisfaction, but even with such intensive practice, I never managed to iron out a certain imbalance: it was always easier to draw a horse […]

Happy Sunday to you.
This week’s inspirational link TM is an “exhibition of 70 Moleskines by international artists, designers, architects, illustrators, and writers”. There was some debate on my recent post about sketchbooks about whether Moleskines really live up to their hype - and expense. All I’m saying is, there is some amazing stuff […]

What did you dream last night? Can you draw it? Let us all see into your subconscious!
I am writing this on Friday night and hoping I might have nice dreams of drinks and tarts. Could happen…
Here’s the round-up for the week. Do feel free to go back and comment – the threads are still open.
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Watercolour hippo - click to see full size.
These days, for speed, ease of use, and lack of mess, I generally use Photoshop for my drawings. However, I thought I’d make a few posts about common media, and begin with watercolour.
As with my recent post about Photoshop, I have to admit that I am no grand […]

Regular readers of Drawanyway will know full well that it preaches a slapdash approach to drawing. Precise, careful illustrators with o.oooo1 Rotring pens and set squares might be advised to avert their eyes for this particular post. Unless, you know, they are trying to loosen up a bit more.
OK, have the very precise artists left […]

Yesterday I tried to make the point that you don’t have to draw every minute detail you see when you’re drawing from life. One of the nice things about painting and drawing is that you can alter reality - and let’s face it, where else in life do you get a chance to do […]

Who’s in control of your picture? That’s right, you’re in control. I know it doesn’t always feel like that, but it’s true. So it’s up to you to make decisions about what you’re going to show and how you’re going to show it.
OK, you can sit down in front of your subject and draw everything […]

We human beings like patterns. We use them to decorate our clothes, our bedcovers, our curtains. Architects in more aesthetic times used them as a matter of course, to bring character to what would otherwise be blank facades: you can see them in decorative brickwork, ornate iron railings, and even on features as mundane as […]

I can’t help it. I try to be a good person, but sometimes I transgress. Of the seven deadly sins, it’s the envy I get bad.
One person whose career I lust after is the Japanese artist Satoshi Kitamura. If I could only wield an inkpot as well as he! Things to love about Kitamura: his trademark sanguine […]