Had two of my pictures up in the annual Nature In Art group exhibition for just under a week. As ever I was inspired by some photographs of mine to create these drawings.
(Let) Sleeping Lions Lie
(a.k.a. 'Golden Syrup Lion')
It wasn't until the 'appreciation night' when it was brought up as reminding of by someone, that I discovered that this had come out a little like the 'Lyle's Golden Syrup' lion. Quite a fun coincidence there. I'd wanted to draw my own version of this lazing lion photo I took at... Cotswold Wildlife Park? for quite some time with various changes of my own. Hand-drawn on textured paper with black pen and coloured pencils. Something bothered me about the picture and I wasn't going to submit it, but then came back to it, scanned it and adjusted the darkness or so (can't quite remember a few months on) and somehow it just worked better. This was the secondary picture really to...
Menorcans
('Original' image currently not available due to some computer issues. May add to post soon.)
Pleased this seemed to go down well. On a holiday to Menorca some years back we visited a place which had Menorcan horses and ponies and the main attraction was the show with these performing Menorcans (humans and horses). Here are some of the ponies outside. Hand-drawn on textured paper with black pen and then coloured in Photoshop. It looks quite comic book-like in colour style, which is fine with me. Adding the shadow was a last minute decision, as it can go so wrong... but thankfully it only seemed to enhance the piece. Phew.
Generally the last few months I haven't had a lot of time to really work on my pictures and what I have done has been more on the doodling side. Hope to start getting back in the swing again shortly. Talking of 'swing'... Inktober is also in progress. Which is definitely on the loose, doodly side.
