May ‘24 Sketchbook

Spent around 6 1/2 hours sketching on my iPad in May but unfortunately you are just going to have to take my word for it as somehow during export I managed to lose both the timelapse video and original files. All I have is a few single pages that I exported prior to losing it. Hey ho, it really wasn’t a great month for my sketching to be honest as most of my time was spent frustratingly wrestling with a single print drawing I abandoned.

This the only other page from my digital sketchbook for May. This was a drawing of an older photo but somehow feels like it sums up how the weather felt last month. Looking forward to warmer temps as we sneak up on summer.

We did go away for a few days to stay with friends in Penryn, nr Falmouth in Cornwall and I left all my digital things at home and took just my Lamy Safari pen and a sketchbook and a small set of half pan watercolours. Didn’t get as much done as I thought I would, too busy enjoying the place and the company, but really enjoyed what I did do. Want to play again with watercolour both physically and bring it into my digital illustrations too. Something I will play more with in June.

Mel’s Mannequin with a jacket she bought from New York. Wanted to draw this partly because I thought it looked amazing and partly because Mel and Mark told us that the mannequin was on it’s last legs :-)

it started as a doodle of a bucket hat, something I alwasy struggle drawing, and ended up with turning into this guy with one very wide shoulder. That slight physical anomaly aside, really enjoyed the process of using two different watercolour washes in this sketch.

Last, but definitely not least, a sketch made on the train home of a photo I took on my phone of me and Dolly. Joked with Sal that this may become my back tattoo.

So that’s it for May. These were the best of it so nothing lost really and a lesson learned to check files are exported before deletion. Feel like June is going to be a more productive month in my sketchbook as I have a load of rough snapshots from Cornwall I want to look through and draw my favourites as definitely feel like my drawing has become very rusty.