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I'm really enjoying drawing these people now. I still find the hands and feet challenging but that's the point of doing this challenge - to get better at things I'm not great at (I prefer drawing the natural

I've fallen a bit behind with posting these. I'll have to get caught up soon! Here's day 8's peep. Drawn using a Lamy Nexx ('A' nib) with a black Lamy T10 cartridge.

After taking a brief break from the challenge (too much to do, too little time), here's days 10, and 11.

This is starting to feel like a good habit. I don't like a day to go by without drawing something now! I managed a bit better with the hands today but to be honest, their position made them fairly easy

I enjoyed drawing this one, even if it didn't quite turn out as I'd planned. I still managed to capture the guy's happy gait so I'm okay with it. I do wonder if I'll ever get the hang of hands though.

Day five of the 30 day challenge and I'm still doing it... :) This was a challenging pose for me to tackle as there was so much movement involved. This challenge is really helping me think about how the

Wow - I made it to four days! Something I'm trying to work on (besides the horror of drawing hands) is being more conservative in my shading. I think I have a tendency to over-shade my drawings, making

Here's day 3's submission and I think I'm starting to find it easier to sketch people. Maybe. Drawing the shoes seemed much easier this time around and getting the proportions right seemed more intuitive.

I'm still having to push myself to keep drawing and here's day 2's submission. Drawn with a Lamy Nexx (A-nib) with the standard Lamy blue T10 ink-cartridge. This pen was a joy to draw with, even on the

Off to a flying start with the challenge, here's day 1's submission. Drawn with a Moonman M2 filled with Waterman Harmonious Green ink, I'm not sure the colour really works for the subject but I wanted

Last year I tried to draw trees for seven days. I failed. Then I decided to do Inktober 2018... and I failed to keep going on that too. Life was just throwing too much at me, constantly that I felt I just

I've been a bit busy with family commitments over the last week so I've not had chance to draw much. Tonight I took the chance to draw a quick sketch of an oak seedling sprouting from the mulch of the

I thought I'd try something new for tree number three. I've never drawn a Joshua Tree before so I thought its spiky foliage would be an interesting challenge... plus a desert tree in the Mojave Desert

Continuing on with my personal challenge, here's today's tree. This was a fun (but time-consuming) exercise in hatching and shading. It took about 90 minutes and was drawn with my Lamy Safari fountain

I love drawing trees so I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to draw a new tree sketch every day for the next week. You never know, it might be longer. :) Today's sketch is of a pair of trees

I love drawing in ink. I can't be bothered with sketching things out with pencil and carefully inking it afterwards. I like to jump straight in with a pen and see where it takes me. One of my favourite

We had a cold snap this week here in Scotland which meant we got a bit more snow and some interesting frost formations growing on top of our car. They were so beautiful that I couldn't pass up the chance

I recently installed Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 on my laptop and for the most part the experience has been awesome. The only thing I've had to 'fix' was when I plugged my external monitor into my laptop's VGA

I find using Windows 10 an incredibly frustrating experience. As a web-developer, I switch between different machines for testing and development purposes. I have a Macbook but it's only got a 13"

It's been an interesting day that started far earlier than I would have liked with my 22 month old daughter crying because she wanted to come into our bed instead of staying in her little baby-prison (a.k.a.