Men in Hats

I seem to be following a theme of men in hats at the moment. Here's Don Draper from the sublime TV show MadMen and the Basil Rathbone version of Sherlock Holmes. I'm working on a bigger digital painting of my 4 favourite Holmeses and Baz is the first one.

Mucking about with textures

In my ventures into digital artwork I thought I'd try beginning with a texture and working it up in Photoshop. These are the first efforts. The one on the left is a mash-up of noir characters in a sci-fi setting. I call it Space-Noir and it's probably been done before but not much. The one on the right was inspired by a short story by award winning writer and poet Lorna Kent called The Flying Baby.

Kate Shields

In yesterday's life drawing session at The Sussex Arts Club the looooooominous Kate Shields was our model.

I've drawn Kate a few times and she's always inspiring. Here are my best efforts.

The Flirtinis

I went along to last night's new session organised and hosted by the fabulous Kate Shields at The Artist Residence hotel here in Brighton. Our (clothed) models were the burlesque duo known as The Flirtinis who struck a series of interesting poses first dressed as naughty nurses then in gorgeous satin ballgowns. Loved it!

 

 

Voluptuous Lucy

Last night's life drawing model at The Sussex Arts Club was the voluptuous Lucy who was lovely to draw. Here are the best of my efforts.

King Ian

Although I generally prefer drawing women, occasionally I get to draw a strapping geezer like Ian.

This is from Jake's Thursday lunchtime session. Please don't look at his willy. It's rude!

Chadha

Last night my friend Chadha came round and allowed me to draw her.
She's a fierce critic though and the session was interspersed with comments like
"Those aren't my lips", "Why have you given me witch nails?" and "Do it again only better."
It's like trying to draw Brian Sewell although Chadha is MUCH prettier. She a total sweety but a
challenge to draw.
Here are the best ones. She liked the top left one best.