Tagged “not-writing”
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art Even more life drawing in watercolour
For a while I went back to life drawing in charcoal rather than watercolour, after a run of sketches that really weren't working out. With short…
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art Painting botanicals with Anya Brock
I’ve been following Anya Brock’s work for something like 20 years, so it was surreal to get to do a painting workshop with her! The subject for the…
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art Peachtober digital sketches
I made it through 8 days of the Peachtober 30 day challenge for October, which is a record for me! This year I decided to play around with digital…
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UX Camp 2025
Here is the reference image we’ll be using for this workshop (photo by Jassir Jonis via Unsplash) Upside down version: Version with guide lines that…
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art Life drawing the male figure
Although I've done a fair bit of life drawing over the past year or so, I haven't had the chance to sketch a male model in a long time. It was great…
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art Charcoal portrait
I'm always amazed about how quickly a charcoal sketch can come together... and how quickly it can be smudged if you touch it wrong! I thought I was…
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books Orwell's Roses (2021), Rebecca Solnit
For some reason I was expecting fiction rather than a collection of meandering essays following George Orwell's interest in gardening and how it…
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art Portrait - Sabrina
Recently I've been doing 1 on 1 art classes with Stephanie Sheppard, after going to a couple of her group workshops focused on portraits. This pencil…
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sketching Design Research conference 2018, in sketchnotes
I was lucky enough to be able to fly to Melbourne to attend the annual Design Research conference for 2018. Here’s my sketchnotes from the very…
Letters from me to you, delivered very infrequently. Rambling thoughts, things I’ve made, interesting links.