Seed Pod Variations – A sketchbook/journal web page – 7 Sept 2023 – Angela Porter

This was so beautiful to do! I like seed pods, and dealing on variations to see what’s going to movement in ink from the pen tip is all the time a delight.

Not stressing over ‘oops’ moments, or not being pleased with a drawing isn’t a straightforward factor to do. Nevertheless, I push alongside, realizing that this can be a sketchbook web page.

Sketchbook pages aren’t meant to be excellent, completed or aesthetic. They’re pages to discover and experiment. Even the wobbly drawings I’m not pleased with can develop into ones I’m pleased with, as soon as I work with their naked bones and add element.

There have been actually a couple of gaffes on this web page. However as an alternative of gaffes, I like to think about them as beginning factors to work from as I’ve labored out one thing I don’t like on this occasion. That’s all the time a invaluable expertise and results in new expertise, strategies, and many others.

I solely added color and shade to a few of the seed pods. They offer me an inspirational nudge if I want it after I look by way of a sketchbook. They act as a reminder that color and/or shade breathe life right into a line drawing, particularly when the road drawing seems to be quite simple and naked of embellishment.

There are such a lot of methods so as to add embellishment to a easy line drawing, that typically it’s good to go away the only line drawing as an invite to work with it and create extra variations and a later cut-off date.

I’ve a video that exhibits how I created this web page on YouTube. It is available to view from 18:00 UK time tonight, 7 September 2023.