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1. Cut 2 rectangles in the fabric planned for the petticoat: 6.5cm x 30 cm ( 2 5/16" x 11 3/4") for the top skirt and 5cm x 100 cm (2" x 39") for the flounce.

Life is consumed by the repetition of this action.

The road (ahead) in its broadest sense...

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This is my portrait of Andy Warhol, the famous American Pop artist. The hole in his torso symbolizes the way he survived from an attempted assassination in 1968. Warhol was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived. He suffered physical effects for the rest of his life. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life and art.

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I had a question from someone about some of my artwork, specifically WOOL, so here is a "step by step" on this drawing.

 

There is no set process for me when creating a drawing or digital painting. Sometimes I will draw thumbnails to work out an idea, sometimes I will just start drawing.

 

With digital drawing I use photoshop and a wacom tablet. I do not have any special brushes and use what ever came with the program. I tend to use only 2, regular round hard brush and a rectangular dry media brush. Wool was made using the dry media brush. Brush opacity for most of the drawing was set to about 30% to create more texture

 

I work with layers on all these digital drawings and WOOL had 12 layers in total. The number of layers will vary per piece.

 

For my superhero sketches I am drawing on regular cheap copy paper. I am not using an expensive sketchbook or special paper. I use what ever I have laying around which sometimes may mean the back of an index card or a blank 4x6 thermal shipping label.

 

I personally like softer leads so almost every pencil I own is B pencil. My favorite pencil at the moment is my chunky 6b prang sketching pencil.

 

My go to mechanical pencil is my 0.9mm pentel pencil. The lead softness is somewhere on the B side.

 

for erasers I use a Staedler mars plastic eraser and, very rarely, a kneaded eraser.

 

I prefer to draw on harder surfaces so my drawing surface tends to be either my animation disc or a clipboard.

 

Feel free to ask me any other questions.

"Step by Step Lane" - Street art in George Town, Penang, Malaysia

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This is a digital work but I placed the circles one by one on a black

background. This is really a time consuming technique...I made a

quick preparatory sketch first (you can see it in the "making of"

below). It looks a bit scary, don't worry, I'm not dangerous. Life

is a great gift but also a death penalty for all of us :(

 

The original version of the final portrait is huge (10 000 pixels wide).

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Thanks to angie scarr's masterclass book :)

Crosswalk moments

Cornish coast path. Porthtowan to Gwithian

To make two large-ish puddings:

 

1 orange

3 baby carrots

1tbsp mixed spice

175g dark muscovado sugar

50g toasted pecans

150g chopped dates

150g chopped prunes

150g raisins

150g currants

150g sultanas

3 eggs

175g butter

4 slices crustless white bread

75g blanched almonds, flaked

75g self-raising flour

100ml guinness

100ml grand marnier

 

some string

foil

two pudding basins

two large pans with lids (to make bain-maries)

 

Thank you all my friends, for one more year of sharing images, ideas and kindness.

My best wishes for the new year of 2013.

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