Cyclists’ Drawing Discussion Gallery

[Gravity Aided]

I shall now have to unpack the stowed art supplies and get to work at this again.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Dodo Airlines plane from Animal Crossing, children's pencil on A4 printer paper. 2021.
I believe this work of art to be pleasing because it captures the very thing that brings us to and from our own version of paradise. Many viewers will sense a familiarity with the subject, existing as it does in their own Animal Crossing community, and it's therefore something island dwellers can very much relate to.

 

[Randomnerd]

I shall now have to unpack the stowed art supplies and get to work at this again.

Come on in @Gravity Aided. No excuses now. Let it flow

 

[Randomnerd]

Dodo Airlines plane from Animal Crossing, children's pencil on A4 printer paper. 2021.

Like it @CanucksTraveller. Not familiar with AC, which is no obstacle to seeing a lovely yellow sea plane. A careful use of the pencil which I admire, since my penchant is to take a very different and more chaotic approach. Colour and form. Yes. Nailed it.

I want more context! What is your plane doing? Where is it? A wisp of cloud? A splash of water?

Keep em coming’

 

[Randomnerd]

A little something from my polytunnel. An hour carving in the warmth, watching sweet peas grow. Pencil sketch while looking. Then ink over the lines without looking trusting in the marks. Had a brush so dipped it in the coffee dregs for a bit Of bleed and contrast.

 

[Randomnerd]

Come on gang! Where are those doodles, those masterpieces!

Coffee break. “Pot Plant in the Window”.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Probably get a sketch or two going when they quit working me like a rented donkey at work and church this week.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Quick sketch of a bicycle of mine

 

[Ian H]

Two pencil drawings I still like, my mother in 1971 & my son in 1995.

 

[Randomnerd]

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Quick sketch of a bicycle of mine

Thanks @Gravity Aided. Great immediacy in the mark-making here. An energetic sketch. Keep ‘em coming!

 

[Randomnerd]

Two pencil drawings I still like, my mother in 1971 & my son in 1995.
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Nice drawings these @Ian H. Caught napping! Interesting how your style remained constant decades apart. Drawings capture memory like photos never can.

 

[Randomnerd]

Wood fern x seaside x foxglove mash-up scratched out in Paper by 53 on the iPad, following a spectacularly long and full day exploring the woods and the seaside of my patch. Come on! Where are all you Van Coughs and Tracey Eminents? Drag out your Crayolas, peloton, and flourish!

 

[IaninSheffield]

Never had an artistic bone in my body, but by some fluke a video ended up in my YouTube recommendations of someone doing a pen and watercolour of a house in Edinburgh. I (naively!) thought that I might be able to manage something similar ... albeit not with the same artistic eye, finesse, nor as quickly. But I'm always up for trying something new, so I picked up some cheap (and not so cheerful!) materials, found a photo I thought I might be able to use as a subject, and here we are:

A terraced house in Walkley, Sheffield

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Learning so much by doing, and consequently finding out how much I don't know and what skills I need to develop.

 

[IaninSheffield]

Attempt 2 was on the face of it, a simpler subject - just a stone gateway I happened to photograph on a ride, thinking it might become a subject:

I am finding architectural or structural subjects, which often seem to have clearly defined lines, easier to render - there's less interpretation(?) involved. I'm also finding it easier working from photos - perhaps it's something to do with them being two-dimensional, and/or that they 'frame' the subject?

 

[IaninSheffield]

Since the last one was from a photo I took whilst our on a ride, I wondered whether it might be interesting to go back through my folders of ride photos and see if there were other potential subjects? If I can get the hang of it, the idea of creating a painting of something encountered on a tour seems like a much more connected way of bringing back memories.

This is my attempt at the 'Custom House' in Napier, a period building which I clearly didn't quite do full justice to, but I'm happy that I now have a much more tangible personal memory of when I was there.

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Defintely 'cheated' with this one. There were a couple of people out front, but the idea of trying to draw something as unstructured as a person is frightening at the moment - something to work towards I think. Some of the artists Ive watched on YouTube talk about drawing and painting 'loosely'; I'm not there yet!