Art dump post

[amberdreams]

So I had a bit of an Inktober mare yesterday, but I said I'd post everything regardless, so I am. LOL
Plus my creative sketchbooking course has started again so I'm due a post of the experiments we're being pushed into.

First the Inky nightmares...
The prompt was Filthy, and I had this bright idea about having Dean cleaning the Impala.
Attempt number one - using masking fluid and Zebra brush pen.

An idea that was better than the execution, so I thought I'd try with the colour brush pens. That didn't go well.

Then I thought - I like drawing with biro (ball point), I'll find a nice ref of dirty Dean in Purgatory and have a go at that.
It started off reasonably ok, but then I got the proportions of his head totally wrong and frustration took over. I may have pressed ridiculously hard with that damn biro before chucking everything across the room. There may have been rather a lot of swearing too (just as well Paul had gone to bed!).

Looking at it this morning, the scribbling has actually made it a fraction more Dean-like but not much.

Now to the sketchbook. This term we are supposed to be looking at contrast. I missed the first lesson, and the second one resulted in a totally boring drawing of pieces of paper and an assortment of objects on a table that I can't even be bothered photographing, so I'll start with our third and fourth weeks efforts.
I took my own references in - a Game of Thrones coffee table book with some nice photos.

The pencil drawing was taking a complex image and cropping it down to different elements using dark and light shading. The idea was to try and get the brain to look at shapes and forms and ignore what it knows about the subject. So don't draw the people as people... really hard!

The painting on the right was trying masking fluid for the first time.

Then in the last 30 minutes of the session I tried the masking fluid again on this bird (which I kind of love because it's so ridiculous!)