sketches – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress Artist, designer and photographer Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:04:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-site-icon-150x150.png sketches – Graeme Skinner https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress 32 32 Sketching The Stones https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2017/04/sketching-the-stones/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2017/04/sketching-the-stones/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:53:28 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=3512 I’ve been trying to use more carbon is my sketches and so I tried, Royal Sovereign Wolff’s Carbon (2B) for a couple of sketches. They’re quite nice to use but hard to get a scan of the finished piece that looks anything like the original 😉 I also tried out the Derwent Artists Sketching Pencil (Midnight) for one of the sketches which was also nice to use but I found it a little waxy. Anyway, the first and the third sketch were made using the Wolff’s Carbon pencil and the middle one using a Derwent. I was working A4 but found it a little restrictive and need to use larger paper to properly try them out.

]]> https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2017/04/sketching-the-stones/feed/ 0 Time for a dragon (I) https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2009/01/time-for-a-dragon-i/ https://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/2009/01/time-for-a-dragon-i/#respond Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:25:21 +0000 http://www.graeme-skinner.co.uk/wordpress/?p=53 I’m starting on a few days/weeks of drawing and painting dragons; I like dragons, well as long as they’re not sitting in the garden trying to burn down the house. Anyway, I’ve read the required manual on dragon creation (Forging Dragons, by John Howe) and I have scribbled in the margin of a few pages so I am fully prepared for dragon creation 🙂

There are a couple of reasons that I want to paint my dragon, first of all there is the theme of the month to work on over at John Howe’s website 😉 and then there is a dragon to draw for the logo of La Communauté Fantastique. I’ll post the sketches and work in progress pictures when I have some.

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