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…