Here is a drawing of my dog's chewed toy squirrel.
What do you think? Please leave me a comment below.
The Illustration Friday prompt for this week is Toy.
Here is a drawing of my dog's chewed toy squirrel. What do you think? Please leave me a comment below. I have been taken on as an art tutor for the charity WEA (wea.org.uk). My first course started on Thursday and I'm working at the charity Sanctus (sanctus-home.com) in their cafe. All the participants are homeless, destitute or have fallen on hard times. As Sanctus say, "We are not here to judge, but to help and act as a resource for the community" and my course is both a gentle way into education and also, hopefully, aids the participants' health and wellbeing (confidence building, social engagement etc). On Thursday, I have to confess, apart from nerves of running a new course for a new employer AND it was the first time the WEA and Sanctus have worked together, I was nervous as I have only interacted with this community in a limited way (buying The Big Issue) and stereotypes were running around my head. After just 2 sessions, I am so pleased the stereotypes are wrong. I feel I am learning more than the guys. There's not much time to draw when you are the class tutor, but above top is a incomplete sketch of Dave, who's very sweet and also a good drawer.
On the 5th October, I heard about a drawing challenge called Inktober. It was created in 2009 by Jake Parker, the Inktober drawing challenge is to do one ink drawing a day the entire month of October. More info here: inktober.com As I'm struggling with creativity and motivation, I thought I would participate. Here are a selection of the ink drawings I did. You can see the whole set in a FB album here: Sue's Inktober
I love receiving comments, please leave your thoughts below. Did you participate in #inktober? Why not leave a link with your comment? As a quick interlude in my Brasil posts, here are my sketches and watercolour experiments from this month. All have been done in the watercolour Moleskin I got at the recent Urban Sketchers Symposium. Above are the sketches of Degas, which have been done with a Super5 pen, whilst below are the sunflower experiments. What have you sketched this month? Why don't you leave a comment below? You are welcome to link to a post too.
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