Tag Archives: pencil and paper

Western themes…

I have been getting back into drawing and painting recently and wanted to make a attempt at joining a event in my city. I was looking for the first thing to attempt and decided to go with a Western / Scifi gallery.

I did not find the event posting with as much lead time as I would have liked but I’m giving it a shot anyway.

Scenes scenes scenes…

Perspective with vanishing points on page.

I have been doing a bit too much drawing from reference image, So to get some variation in my drawing I decided to draw some scenes from imagination and only use reference image to get some ideas as how to fill in the fine details.

Inspired by a tree in Manito Park, imaginary scene.

Wanted to just make a endless hallway drawing, imaginary scene.

Mixing some random elements, imaginary scene.

Little more planned out composition, Imaginary scene.

Drawing insects

Drawing a praying mantis perched on a rock

I have done a lot of quick sketches of mammals, fish even birds but not as many insects. So today I decided I should give a stab at drawing a preying mantis. I just googled praying mantis and attempted to freehand sketch the following reference image.

The result

Pencil and paper sketch scanned in and touched up in GIMP

The reference image.