Borough Market Illustrations - 1

Here's the first of the Borough Market illustrations: Borough Market Veg 1 that I was researching the other day (see post). Using reference photos taken with my phone, I constructed a composition in Photoshop then worked from that. It saves having to stick a scary camera lens into people's faces whilst they work/sell/eat in London SE1. After that, a lot of colourful monoprinting ensued (using dry paper), followed by an addition of all the contrasty detail, afterwards, in ink with a pen. There are four more of these to come (Bread, Veg 2, Juice and Fish) but I'll share those when they are all complete.

Drawing For Life - 4

My task on Monday was to put some curves back into my life drawing at Betty Frankenstien's Drawing Room, SE19. As an exercise, I tried to keep my pencil on the paper as long as possible. Instead of drawing all over the place, to get from one side of the page to the other I had to follow an existing (or create a new) route. This increased the darkness of the lines, sometimes, but did make it harder to measure or prepare proportions. I'm really pleased with this picture but none of the others made the grade for the web, I'm afraid.