New shop page is live!

My Shop page has finally gone live. Boosh!

Everything has been framed and is ready to go. This is probably the part when I find that no one likes what I've been doing and I'll have to have a long rethink. We shall see I guess.


Hope you like goofy pictures.

A Matchstick for a Spoon

Blogger wouldn't let me fit all three images side by side without the third one shifting to the space bellow, that is unless I made them tiny and that made the over all image look a little week so I combined them to give the image something closer to the effect I had in mind.

So, all finished. Yesterday morning I had expected I would simply just shuffle into my little corner, where all my drawing gear is nestled, shade these guys and be finished. Then I actually looked at them. I decide I didn't really like the prop I had given the rat on the far right so I would have to draw the little guy again.

The original drawing had a match stick instead of the spoon. I felt it didn't compliment the line of motion and clashed with the curvatures exhibited in the posture.

It just looks so...pidilly...

So I drew the final image again and swapped the match stick for a spoon. I think all thee drawings took about twenty hours over all.

Meh.

Over all I am uncertain as to whether I am happy with the finished piece.
Anyway, on a less important note, I really like rats. They are intelligent and resourceful little critters that display an plethora of complex behaviours and social learning (the ability to observe understand actions performed by other members in there own species, discern which actions are potentially beneficial or harmful and mimic them if they desire.) So, rant over, I had been waiting for a perfect excuse to draw them.

Resuming Stuff

So I'm resuming the drawing I started last month. It's made up of three individual drawings actually.
Rats are the focus this time. They have a nice, simple skeletal structure but they are very spindly so when bones started to overlap things became a little complicated. The initial pencil sketch was a little messy.

Lines upon lines, upon lines!

Once I was happy with all three sketches I went over each them carefully in pen. I only wanted to draw all of them once.

Anyway they are all ready to be shaded tomorrow. I'd really like to get back into a more frequent drawing routine. I've been so busy.