201/365 Gwythian Car Park, St. Ives Bay. 04/08/18 10 mins Pencil Notebook: Gilbert
201/365
365 DRAWING PROJECT
A 365 daily drawing project begun in good faith, but thwarted by life, death, progress and other forces. I have since scaled it back to “regular” but I still aim to fulfil the 365 target.
The process has thrown up so many unexpected things, ideas, personal development, a noticing of what I notice, discovery of stories, and connection with other people,none of which would have happened otherwise. So I would recommend trying it, as long as you don’t mind loosing time and don’t value your sanity much.
INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 193-199
Another lost drawing from last Spring’s trio to Berlin. This is the window of the flat we stayed in in Wilmersdorf with a portion of the receipt from the grocery shop over the road.
Notebook: Ichabod
Fountain pen and Stabilo.
More from the Berlin notebook. Various details around Brandenberger Tor. With map of central Berlin pasted in.
Notebook: Ichabod
April 2017
Corner of West Park and Whiteladies Road from the balcony at BDH with a sandwich in the Sun.
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Uniball micro.
20 mins
Notebook: Beto
Sleeping office dog on a hot day. Drawn whilst waiting for various render tests.
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Pencil.
10 mins
Notebook: Gilbert
More lunchtime sketches as the people of Bristol make the most of the April Sun just in case Winter comes back.
Pencil.
20 mins
Notebook: Beto.
🥙 ✏ 📓 😴
Still life in the corner of the local barbers.
Fountain pen.
20mins.
Notebook: Beto.
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Partially covered buildings down in Gas Ferry Road near the illustrious Aardman Animations in Bristol.
Started from life whilst waiting for a meeting, finished from memory.
Notebook: Beto.
V-ball.
📓 ✒ 🌳 🏭
192/365
Digging out some old ones I forgot to post at the time.
This is one of the aeroplanes that took us to Berlin last April.
Around 8:45 am 11/04/17.
Bristol Airport.
Pencil, fountain pen and Stabilo marker.
Notebook: Ichabod.
191/365 – Commuter Drawing
191/365
This mornings commuter drawings, with added quotes from a motivational podcast by GaryVee I was listening to at the time.
20-30 mins
Notebook: Beto.
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190/365 – Commuter drawings.
Some commuter drawings in my new moleskine from yesterday mornings. Bit of a bumpy ride, but managed to get some marks down.
Also trying to break the block I have of sketching in public. It would seem having a smaller notebook helps.
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V-ball
30 mins
Notebook: Beto
INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 174-189 (Ichabod)
This is a real hotchpotch of drawings from various places over the last few months. As my time is very short I have taken on the process of starting the sketch from life, taking a photo, then finishing the drawing later from reference. This was against my original principle of doing this project, but it’s that or not getting anything done, so.
I have made some of these drawings available as signed digital prints on my Big Cartel store. Please have a look, there is some of my colour work available there too.
Sometimes I have made short little videos of the process of the drawing and you can see those by clicking on the Instagram link below the image and swiping to the left.
As always you can follow my progress almost realtime on Instagram or Facebook and check older drawings on previous posts, or in the gallery.
Drawn whilst sitting on the @sbabristol Arts Trail.
Plot 1.
There’s still a few hours left.
20 minutes.
Notebook: Ichabod
English Rose, Clifton, Bristol.
Drawn on 15/06/17.
Fountain pen.
10 minutes.
Notebook: Ichabod.
Godrevy Lighthouse, St. Ives Bay.
View from Gwythian Sands.
6th August 2017.
Notebook: Ichabod.
Multicoloured Ballpoint.
I have a lot of drawings I haven’t posted now so prepare for them to come all out of sequence.
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The spire (?) of the German Cathedral in the Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin.
Ink
Notebook: Ichabod.
I’ll be using #Inktober to finish off and “ink” in various sketches begun here and there. This is of one of the twin Cathedrals by the Konzerthaus in Berlin started when we visited back in April.
Deutscher Dom,
Gendarmenmarkt,
Markegrafenstraße,
Berlin.
Originally pencilled 12/04/2017.
Completed 04/10/2017
Pencil and V-ball.
Notebook: Ichabod.
#inktober
House front.
St. Michaels Hill, Bristol.
Pencil and V-ball.
08/09/2017-12/10/2017
Notebook: Ichabod
Process video viewable here. Prints available on Big Cartel.
Three Establishments along the Whiteladies Road.
From the front door at work, a view soon to be blocked by the new building.
11th Oct – 1st Nov 2017
Notebook: Ichabod.
Process video viewable here. Prints available on Big Cartel.
Stone Staircase,
Lower Church Lane,
nr Perry Road,
05/09/17-12/11/17
V-ball and Pencil.
Notebook: Ichabod
Process video viewable here. Prints available on Big Cartel.
Magpies on Gwithian Sands.
Drawn on 01/08/2017
Fountain pen and V-ball
Notebook: Ichabod 📓
South Parade, Oakfield Road,Clifton Bristol.
Pencil and V-ball.
08/11/17-23/11/17
Notebook: Ichabod
Process video viewable here. Prints available on Big Cartel.
205/365
205/365
Commuter drawing on the Park and Ride. Rainy and cold.
15 mins V-ball
Notebook:Beto
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Spring trip to Berlin.
aka: Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 172-182
It’s been a while so I am all out of sorts with drawings and order etc.
This is a batch from our Spring trip to Berlin. I have some more of these and I will post them in due course as some of them were scribbled on site and need a little bit of finishing off.
There’s some good advice here on drawing animals by Aaron Blaise, which could be applied to drawing from life of any kind. Mainly:
- Draw from Life
- Do your research before you go out.
- Bring the right supplies and be prepared.
- Observe first draw later.
- Keep it loose and make quick observations.
- Adjust revise your proportions as you go.
- Take lots of pictures and build your personal reference library.
You should definitely read the whole post here.
Anyways, back to Berlin:
During out stay we were fortunate enough to visit the Rudolf Belling exhibition at the Hamberger Bahnhof museum. I was relatively unfamiliar with his work before this but we all really enjoyes seeing his work.
This from Wikipedia:
At the very beginning of the 20th century Rudolf Belling’s name was something like a battlecry. The composer of the “Dreiklang” (triad) evoked frequent and hefty discussions. He was the first, who took up again thoughts of the famous Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1570), who, at his time, stated, that a sculpture should show several good views. These were the current assumptions at the turn of the century. However they foreshadow an indication of sculpture being three-dimensional.
Rudolf Belling amplified: a sculpture should show only good views. And so he became an opponent to one of the German head scientists of art in Berlin, Adolf von Hildebrandt, who, in his book, The problem of Form in Sculpture (1903) said: “Sculpture should be comprehensible – and should never force the observer to go round it”. Rudolf Belling disproved the current theories with his works.
His theories of space and form convinced even critics like Carl Einstein and Paul Westheim, and influenced generations of sculptors after him. It is just this point which isn’t evident enough today.
I hope to make a more comprehensive post about his work in the future.
Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 167-173
10 mins
V-ball
Notebook: Myrtle
They’re pretty much the only thing I can see from the window where I sit to eat my lunch.
10mins
Vball
Notebook: Myrtle.
V-ball
Notebook: Ichabod
Straight To V-ball.
Notebook: Ichabod.
30 mins
Uniball micro
Notebook: Ichabod
(Process videos uploaded to Instagram Stories)
March 2017.
4 mins
Notebook: Ichabod
Paul Greer 