Wednesday, June 08, 2005

More Red...


Red
Originally uploaded by RavenGirl.
I selected these two photos to practise sketching from photos because I loved all the red... especially the hair.... and the compositions are beautiful... so a lot of the art is already there to interpret...

not only is ravengirl a wonderfull model she is a great photographer... so check out her work by clicking on the either photo.... which will take you into her flickr gallery.... take some time and look around... set what i mean about the art already being there


still
Originally uploaded by RavenGirl.

what artist couldn't help but appreciate the wonderful curves and forms.... long live cleavage! well in my art at least



Monday, June 06, 2005

an example of the attraction-repulsion algorithm


this is a fascinating graph... well its called a flickr graph... and it lets you look at who is looking at you and if you want who is looking at them... its dynamic & real six degrees of seperation stuff... but also fun

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Cinderalla Sisters



Not sure who these girls are... if you think they they might be you drop me a email or comment

Friday, June 03, 2005

that tongue thing


sexyblogger
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.
something that has overhelmed singapore faster than bird flu... is that tongue thing...

everywhere... pretty young girls are lining up for photos... taken with a camera phone, of course... and poking their tongue out... not all the way just out the side... it's way cooler than the "say cheese" smiles and gratuitous poses most foreign tourist get up to

anyway I have been researching and the phenomenon has a net beginning... here in singapore... a popular blogger xiaxie... she posed like that once... and posted it... then it was ridaculed... and of course the pose became popular for self-portraits... mr brown, about town, and also flickr enhusiast, suggested more people should pose and post using the tag "sexyblogger" .... now there is a sexyblogger group.

thanks xiaxie, for being both beautiful and original

Thursday, June 02, 2005

The Mudd Women:Sculptures of Real Women

The Mudd Women is a great website of the sculputress Joyce Mudd... she has created some beautiful and original full figure girls... and her work is for sale

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

getting ARTier

Huge's torso
Huge's torso,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.
i know i'm travelling so much I can't get onto yahoo much.... i will admit i was getting very frustrated with its less than reliableness... and the bots... and the trolls... and the...

well the list is pretty long... let's just say it wasn't helping me be creative!

flickr and the flickr groups have however been more inspiring and let me refocus on what this blog journey is about.... being ORIGINAL!

i still love sketching from webcams... it is a lot of fun if nothing else BUT it is time to be creative not just frustrated cause my typing so bad

Sigh*t

ssh*t what a coincidence.... i suggest you check out Sight- An Oracular Insight ( A Singapore Art blog)... i came across it by RJs comment to my latests sketches of ginger... looks like he is another expat living in singapore and coming unders its mutli-culrural charm and energy... his current project a big canvas is really worth a look... and read the text to see what is developing and the angst that creativity and orginality seem to require...

go for it mates... make great art here in this little island city

Saturday, May 28, 2005

sketching from photos

self
self,
originally uploaded by maja paja.
trying to sketch from a photo is a bit stressfull still.... i think i try to copy things to much...

this self portrait of maja with inspiring eyes.... they totally bewitched me and i just had to sketch her


Friday, May 27, 2005

merci beaucoup


I'm now a Pro...
Originally uploaded by sigh clone.
I'm now a Flickr Pro... thanks to a nice appie... as in the horse breed appaloosa (which is not an apple... as illustrated)

being a pro will mean i don't have to panic about file sizes and bandwidths so much... which means higher resolution images... well i'm very pleased

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

a raven beauty


a raven beauty, originally uploaded by sigh clone.

Watercolour... sketched from a photo... it's of a wonderfull lady called raven... a very competant photographer and artist, with a wonderful eye for beauty... this sketch has already become my most viewed on my flickr account

Contacting Me

fir those that worry about these things... you may have noriced i removed the contact me section from the right hand column... its a security thing, i'm trying to stop spiders and bots reading my email address and buggering this blog with spam posts....

if your a real person and want to contact me (or send me a favourite photo to sketch)... i do appreciate honest feedback... you can find my contact details under my blogger profile

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

yet another BBW icon

bbwl006
bbwl006,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.
I'm moving the BBW icon /logo /avatar /tag collection over to my MSN sketch book... if you are looking for a profile pic, or logo for ypur website, they are free to download for such personal use.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

blimey

i decided to check on my progress in the blogshare game...




blimey... i'm in the middle of a bit of a disaster... after wrestling back control of my blog, i'd managed to become a bohemian so I settled into spending everything i had like a proper creative soul... well it worked.. about 10 days ago I had approximately B$215million and growing... suddenly i'm down to my las B$120 mill... how quickly we fall... and that's not all now i'm also a pornstar... don't laugh...

I would welcome any advice on how a pornstar is supposed to behave... financial that is!

right click mania

Flickr, the service I've been experimenting with, as a better way to house my images... is changing... its been taken over by yahoo... and it has also removed its flash wrapper from the main photo display page.... so what does that mean in english.. it means the viewer can easily download an image by just pressing the right click on the menu and selecting save image as.... this is creating a lot of discussion




the issue is an interesting one as a lot of folk confuse being "able to copy" with "copyright". and anything displayed on the internet is also "able to be copied" from the interenet. why publish any of your precious works on the net.... they will always be fair game for the unscrupulous to copy...




I want my images protected by copyright so why to i post here... well the answer is easy I want to share them... i need people to see them... the internet is one hell of a big art gallery. I've been thinking about copyright since I began posting... the artist in me one day hopes that I can sell sketches and perhaps even support myself with that income... but i know that will not occur until my work is known and appreciated... i expect that will take time... I like the way the creative common licenses are both worded and organised... and will support them as my way to effect a legal copyright the works in this blog... the downside is i don't know how enforceable those licenses are



i do think that the net is a wonderful place and the vast majority of users do use it wisely... but it does make copyright of anything published on it difficult to enforce. Copyright is a legal concept of ownership of intellectual property.. as far as i can find out it was developed during the 17th century england to protect mainly the fashionable painters of the time... it was designed to stop other from profiting from an artists work... yet today copyright, particularly in the record and film industries does the reverse, it ensure that most money goes to the "industry" not the artist themselves. did yahoo buy flickr beacuse it was neat? or to get acess to all those clicks and the money such traffic can generate?

Monday, May 16, 2005

Donna glows

Soft Pencil (4B)

watercolour & coloured pencil

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

BBW logos

bbwl02
bbwl02,
originally uploaded by sigh clone.
I have been noticing that there is a bit of a debate going on all over the net about using other peoples images on your profile... well I decidied to build up a set of simple, but hopefully tasteful, bigger ladies that anyone can copy for their private use in their profile.

Monday, May 09, 2005

the three graces




...after Rubens

Friday, May 06, 2005

Goddess of Willendorf... in chocloate?

WienVenusVonWillendorf0508
WienVenusVonWillendorf0508,
originally uploaded by McManly.
in my web wanderings I came across a marvelously original chocolate company. they have recreated a number of deities in chocolate, needless to say my favourite Chocolate Deities: Goddess of Willendorf... yes you can order them over the net

Thursday, May 05, 2005

aMAZing!

why not try this... if you have a few spare moments... and a steady hand... thanks to lotta for finding it

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

a dreamlike treescape

treescape
treescape,
originally uploaded by brandelion.
there are lots of creative folk on the web... when you start looking... & know where to look... this surreal landscape is by a new flickr friend... her blog goes but the unusual name of paddle, paddle... she has even visted this blog (see soft rock)

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

my new blogger template

recovering my blogger template, and particularly the little bits I had put on the right hand side, was becoming a technical nightmare for an old bloke... then I found the beautiful blogger templates by Richa who has the unusualy named blog The Emotional Pumpkin

the blue period continues


butter in watercolour and some pencils work

Sunday, May 01, 2005

a raven beauty

a raven beauty

This is a watercolour based on a photo, sent to me by raven

Saturday, April 30, 2005

more artist that blog

you should have a look at Chuck Berk's Interactive Art Blog...... especially his how I paint post... whilst i used watercolour & pencil... i am starting to realise that the best picture aren't draw... with lines... you put the colour & shading in first.... understand the light and the darks... thats what makes the sketch work... and finally the minimum line work on the most important details only

the new look

The destruction of my blogging template has got me thinking... should i update the look of my blog.... more importantly can I do it for free and without much technical knowledge... well I might give it a try

Do you like the new look? Please leave your commenst here.....

Friday, April 29, 2005

soft rock


A delicate watercolour moment



these are somewhat unfinished and very light on the washes.... but rock girl was a wonderful model... more blue... crikey am i going through a blue period?

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

another thinga-me on the right hand side

i was looking at the site status and noticed that 43% of the traffic on this blog ir regulars returning... I think this is actuall very good and i thank you regular readers... and an obvious conclusion is that I am better letting you control who you want to share this sketch blog with than becoming an online advert bot myself... so i've put another "free" tool from bavenet on the right hand side... (its free because it has click boxes to get bravenet services on the form, there is no obligation to tick them)... its a little button to activate a tell a friend via email about this blog... please leave a comment if you do or don't like such tools...

Thursday, April 21, 2005

on-line intermission

flowers(7)
flowers(7),
originally uploaded by sighcl0ne.
sorry folks you want see me on the net or in thei blog for the next week or so... well you might if you know my SMS number... take care

another email to blog test

another email to blog test

A soft pencil 4B sketch



and it worked!

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

not so self indulgent after all

another day with net access and yahoo playing fickle to let you in... oh well, i can at least spend my time wandering in blog land...

I used to think that blogging sketches was wierd... a kind of personlity dysfunction or something... but i know see there are other creative people out their like everydaysketch... i'm starting to feel normal... and that's a worry

learning new tricks

...now there is nowhere to hide 

special thanks to can do (that's the aussie guy who likes bell a lot, and she like him too) for helping me conquer yahoo via SMS... now no is safe from me wherever I might be... well providing yahoo is playing!

now how does this MMS thing work?

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

where there is smoke...

DON'T PANIC

There is life outside, the Net, Yahoo! chat rooms, blogging etc...

firstly I'm glad it just isn't me having hassles with Yahoo and its chat room deities... it see te Big Bellied Ladies groups is mobilising... and with some useful ideas... keep it up girls and stay in touch.

my priviate little frustration was that I allocated a coupe of hours tonight, while i was overnighting in me!bourne, to go on-line and say hi in chat... but where are the regular rooms... what the... I can go to Big Billies but I'm the only one... BUGGAR

So I went and watched a great satiorical show on TV called "grumpy old men"... its a BBC show... suddenly it struck me... I was just like them... they get frustrated by mobile phones... computers....the internet... Hey I though smuggly I know how to use chat rooms.... BUGGAR again.. well i might if I could only get in... could a pimply youth get in right now? (such a thought is a bad sign that I am in fact a grumpy old man)

what we need is a more traditional method to start the communication... maybe a smoke signal... no smoke... its ok the loog in... white misty... maybe logging in not a good idea... red haze... somethings a miss, best to keep away... thick black smoke from the keyboard... leave the room... quickly

Friday, April 15, 2005

warm, wet & wrinkling

i've just been packing up my recent sketches... i've decided that life in the tropics is not good for paper... especially once I have wet it for watercolour washes... it crinkles and curls more and more... simple things like pressing it under somethinh heavy works for the time it is being press... but as soon as it is back in the humid air it withers, curls and crinkles again...


my new scanner gets more detail in the paper crinkle, than the orignal wash

the depressing bit is my new scanner is so good, it manages to capture a lot of detailed shadows of the crinkled paper... so its a trip south for my work and some serious straightening out

in need of sleep

things have been positively in overdrive... no rest for the wicked I guess... but such is life... the good bit is i'm getting an earlier than expected break... and time to sleep!

in the meantime does anyone know why yahoo messanger and chat rooms are playing up so much..? I've totally lost patience...

THEN
Thanks ginger, I just got invited to a friendly re-established room with all the old regs... buggar another call out...!

Thursday, April 14, 2005

sketching again

i had a bit of a sketch marathon the other day... there will be more posts, don't worry... i'm proud of these watercolours of lotta, as well as capturing her wonderfull prettiness, they do show her inquisitive warmth... i also loev the colours... the blue & purple paints will be staying out


that lovely lotta smile

lotta in blue top

here's a test for the blokes

if you're a guy and reckon you are pretty capable, they taking this
concentration test for men

.... no cheating!

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

having some flickr fun

those that notice these things, may have noticed i've been playing with stuff on the right hand side of this blog... firstly because i can , well i've figured out how to... but more importantly to help you the readers... you guys find your way around my wonderings... to let you see some of the stuff i've found useful in the journeys finding my way around the blogSPHERE... buggar i'm catching SINGlish now...

well I have been looking for somewhere to store higher resolution version of my sketches for some time now.... with many false starts... but flickR, which is a photo staring site, looks promising.... but before I fork out real cash to set up anything i thoight I'd try out the free trial offer... but you're involve also...

now for the fun bit

i want to set up my most popluar sketches in there... so what I need you to do is have a look at the FlickR daily zeitgeist box (its about half way down on the right hand side)... when you see a sketch you like click on it... that will take you to a large version, and will register a vote... pretty niffty don't you think... and it doesn't cost you anything.... just your time

I'll be constantly changing the images in my FlikR account, adding new ones and removing the less popular ones... in a few month I hope to have my top 100 most popular sketches in there... well assuming you, the readers, want to play
blessed looking angelic in watercolour and pencil

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

IANardo

I've been still slowly exploring the web for BBW art... and this guy... known as IAN'ardo, (say it like leo'nardo and you will realise he is a true master of the art form... his pencil sketches are truely magical and a capture the pure beauty of larger girls (in deligthful gowns)


his use of mirrors in some of his compositions...
really blew me away... his site www.ianardo.com is really worth a visit

Monday, April 11, 2005

the blues

terry not wearing her favourite dress up


like eeyore... we all have to face the blues.... sometimes more often, than seems fair at the time... but like the colour blue which can be vivid, rich and deep... lifting and enriching skin tones, nearby by simple contrast... the blues can enrich our life by exposing & highlighting our delicate side... that is if we can learn from the bouts of the blues and don't let ourselves drown

a special big HUG to terry

Saturday, April 09, 2005

SINGlish

新加坡技术青年时期的一种新语言

it took me a while to notice but all things WEB, herein singapore, have an unusual written language, ... the words are a mixture of chinese phonetic, hindu, and malay inside english... with no real grammar (which appeals to me, if you haven't already noticed)... and lots of inappropriate CAPital letters..juSt LIke thIS... but it is spreading... from blOGs onto SMS messages... eveyone here saye hELLO NOrt... notICE boards... even bILLboards... often its clEVEr as in the EVE perfume adds... mostLY it is just HArd 2 reAD... the amazing thing is i'm starting to hEAR the YOUnger PeoPLe SPEak in it... at least its better than those back in the UK that overUSE the hand movement apostrophes all the time to "emphaSIZE" the obvious

revisted... some old work

í'm not sure if its me.... my dial up link... or what? BUT the net, yahoo, gmail and blogger are being really slow and unrelaiable... whats going on

No panties in colour chalk (2003)


It did meet up with lisa, some some I have not seen chatting for a long time and her if I could post some of her sketches.... AND she ask about this one... it was done in conte, a type of compressed chalk... it was in my most gaugain period

looking back I have posted a coloured pencil sketch of her last year.

Friday, April 08, 2005

i'm on blogshare... What the ..? you say

i've discovered this blog has listed in blogshare (i think its some kind of fantasy cyber game or challenge) since last june... it might explain all the hits on my counter... buggar it wasn't popularity...

better still my humble blog is worth a whopping B$2,899.13 (that is blogshare dollars, which unfortunately converts to about.... well exactly nothing!)

does it matter that I am not a major shareholder...?
does it matter that I don't have a clue what the game is... ??
has my identity been stollen... ???
do i worry to much about this webstuff... maybe
can I reclaim my blog... ???? oh yes I can... ah time to relax
better still is it time for some more of my homebreww beer..? definitely...



any one interested in playing for me? I now have 1000 shares to sell & little interest in playing... but no more web angst!

Thursday, April 07, 2005

end of the road

Aquilla pencil sketch, after the tsunami


this is sketched near meulabah on the west coast of sumatra... it is the main road to banda arche... well the few traces left of the road... which completely dissapears into the sea just north of here... this was apparently also the site of a village... now it is just a mud flats... & nothing

back in the warmth

well after a lot of flights I've manage to stay on the ground... well water actually.. see, I live on a rented yatch here in singapore... and it is heaven... the warm balmy night... the smell of my home brewed beer... I bottled it before hitting the sack... (and ok I did sample some)... the gentle sea breeze... I slept for almost 20 hours... totally refreshing... i strongly recommend oversleeping

Now to catch up on that scanning backlog

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

a great blog & group

I like to wander round... in this cyber space, as well as the real world... sometimes I find despicably bad places(smut overload)... sometimes great spots... one such place worth a visit is JNESS_BLOG & her ScarletBBWArt Gallery... her work is really something special...

from there I went onto find a great group, dedicated to all things BBWs in Art... its a wonderfull site (no smuttiness welcome)

an old friend (revisited)

Pencils sketch of an amazing cleavage


there seems to have been a big shift in the on-line community... has something terrible happen in the force (luke)... my favourite chat rooms are impossible to get into... many familiar faces are gone ( & unfortunately replaced by an every increasing army of boring bots)... but all is not lost...I did manage to catch up with a couple of old friends that I hadn't seen for ages... Sad Panda, a great lady and artrist herself, even went so far as scolding me for not including her sketches.... well here they are

the watercolour sketch takes shape

this may well be my first webcam watercolour... i still love the richness of the skin tones... but I must admit I got very muddy puddles in the shadows

a colourful & happy (sad) panda in pencil and watercolour


thanks again my gorgeous friend... you started me on a great, some times difficult but certainly uplifting road

Saturday, April 02, 2005

the high life

well I'm actually about to head for london after all... it been one of those on again off again trips... in the new british airways sleeper, no less... then onto bishkek, it is nice this time of year... and I doubt i'll be blogging from there

Friday, April 01, 2005

mermaids indeed, what a disgrace

I guess most expats in singapore know that if you want to find aussies after work ( & behaving badly) you can first try Carnegies.... which is interesting as it a direct clone of its name sake in hong kong, it is on place in which I have never seen an aussie...

anyway that's not what my concern is about... it is about another favorite haunt for expats.... Batam island, unfortunately it attracts the dirty old man variety of expat... and shamefully a few of whom may be aussies...

well I got invited over there to a barbie... and even I was shocked... we went to a private beach and "club" where larger girls had been force feed on nasi putih, udang & sambal manis.. presumable to get them even larger and they were made to swim nude, in what are essentially small pens off a makeshift jetty... I was told this was to make their skin wrinkled and white... they can only leave their watery pens when picked to entertain one of the paying customers... firstly they must perform a very unusual tongue flicking ritual in full view of everyone... if they giggle or dont show enough interest in the tonguing they are splashed with green paint and thrown back into the water... if a customer is satisfied he can tie one or more coloured ribbons around her arms or legs... considerable money changes hands in bets on which girls will get painted and weather the paying customer gets his money's worth... there is much shouting of "mukan malam" and "mukan dading""...

the girls are called the "mermaids of malaca" and are supposedly a rare delicacy... but they look quiet miserable despite their exotic titles and intended status... the girl with the most ribbons becomes the center piece for dinner and has the various dipping sauces poured over her naked body

don't worry I just enjoyed my barbecued pawns with sweet chili sauce an a little rice... and a great sunset... at a different function, the one I had actually been invited to, further along the beach

这个故事是4月傻瓜天笑话

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

if you like this blog site why not review it

I'm still quite amazed at the traffic being reported by my site counter... its a little humbling... but I'd rather just settle back and do something original and not worry about the ins and outs of techncal stuff like "hits" and weather they really are hits... or technically misses... or spider... or bots... or whatevers

i'd prefere human assesment... so i've recently registered this blog with the singapore blog directory under their art and photo blogs listings... but it is based on user review... so if you have a spare moment why not become a reviewer (and please give an honest opinion)

a different aspect

Super Goddess in profile (& 4B pencil)


i like this portrait in profile... and should do more of these... still i must not take any credit for the pose it is really an consequence of where laura has her screen relative to her camera, rather than any artistic endeavours on my behalf... and i hope she was preoccupied about the going on the the chat room not wooried about my sketching...

I don't have snazzy headphones like laura's so I probably missed something... well to be honest i don't have any headphones so I'm sure I am missing a lot

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

look no net...

my experiment with yahoo connection via SMS turned out to be one
way... mainly because I couldn't figure out how to reply... more
instruction to read I guess... but read from where?

Special thanks for all the well wishers, my friend how was involved in
a nasty accident before easter, is still in hospital but on the road
to recovery... with a seriously large helping of choccies and other
easter treats...

unfortunately for me its back to the grind stone... infact two super
urgent ones... :( more long distance flights

PS: this is an email blog submission so I hipe it gets through

Friday, March 25, 2005

pretty as a picture... more of lotta

lotta in pencil with a painted pout


lotta is another of my favourites and I sketched these a while ago... i could resist adding red lips to my pencil skech of her pout.. i do like her as a redhead, trust you do also...


red har, red gloves & feather boa (in watercolour)


you can click on any images in this blog to see them larger

Thursday, March 24, 2005

political correct or not

I notice my old counter is still chunging along... and I wondered why... so while waiting in yet another airport lounge and chatting with a nice young lady, that knows things about the web... i've learned how to traced back some fo those that link to this humble blog...

shock horror... i'm mentioned in the Political Correctness Watch... Not that í'm worried political correctness just styfles originality and freedom of expression...

not big mystry why i'm there... the PC watch is a memeber of the australian bloggers alliance and if you hurry you'll see i'm the featured blog of the week... (was joking you don't have to hurry I've been featured blog of the week since last october) but i do still feel humble

Another Bell Sitting.....

bell in "rough work" 4B pencil


bell is a favourite model and a lot of fun to sketch.... the composition in the watercolour below is good and powerful, it was a very special sitting for her very special friend... but it wasn't always like that... the original washes dried very pale and i was dissapointed... so I added the stronger darker blue in the background to let the flesh tones become highlights... I also used my newly aquired set of derwent artist pencils (the portrait set) to liven up the flesh tone shadows... i think this is now a striking work

watercolor washes with coloured pencil over-working


do you like the result..? please leave your comments.. I welcome lots of feedback

Guess Who? is a red head now

A more colourful lotta


this was actually an abandoned sketch... I was concentrating on getting the hand right... and the persepctive is wrong.. but I love lotta's expression... that very characteristic "love of life" that she usually has... all just in pink and lilac shadows... and her smile...

watch out for another lotta series in here... very soon

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

dark, darker, darkest

I've been using my old trusty 4B graphite pencils a lot lately... especially for quick sketches... they can create very stong darks even when rubbed in... I loved truely's delicate & pretty face framed in her hair and top so I just went for it... hatching in shadow... getting it very dark compared with her facial features... i didn't have much time to do the sketch, so the line work in the darks is still rough but i don't think that matters...'

by the way... i'd love to see more feedback in the form of comments again... tell me what you like (or don't like)

ruby red is truey very pretty


LATE NEWS... one of my friends down in australia has a bad accident today... so once again I'm packing my bag and boarding a plane... i'm starting to have difficulty keeping up with myself actually

Thursday, March 17, 2005

what percent of sketches do I publish?

someone asked me the other day what percentage of sketches I publish... I didn't know... but i thought to myself "most"... well I was wrong... I've just counted over 300 sketches (not all I've done just the ones I still have).. when i put aside the ones I know I've posted there where around 100... not a very good success rate...

but i do have some excuses... I throw away bad sketches... I've misplaced quiet a few... I don't publish anything without permisssion and not every one likes my work... also i've lost track of a few models, (I have to admit I'm not well organised in that regard)... a few are more private... some are just not worthy of publishing...

so the answer is around 30% and you can safely asume they are the best ones

warmth in watercolour

This sketch of bowtie is quiet old, it got caught up in my unscanned backlog.... but i love the warmth of the colours... notice there is hardly any skin tone in this one.. i had become pre occupied with the light, the shadows and her she but glowing personaility... so i let the colours of the shadows & highlights take over... watercolour is quiet an amazing medium
a watercolour with purple shadows & yellow highlights

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

good medicine

a good friend has been very sick... so my sletch book and pencils have been packed away.... the truth is I do miss a daily sketch or two... it is somehow good for the soul... b i'd rather make sure they get better

to cut a long story short we went down the coast to the inverlock jazz festival and it was good medicine (for both of us)... a reallt good long weekend in the best australian way.... we did nothing but relax, eat, drink &... relax some more, I guess you know how it goes.

so I can see i'll be ready to enjoy my break just as it finishes

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

a delicate starr

I've been reduced to more conventional pencil sketching while I've been darting back and forth... normally i'm pretty gungho with soft pencils and go for really rich dark blacks, early in the sketch... i've been experimenting with a lighter touch and lots of smudging...

(low key) soft pencil (4B)

i think this one is particularly magical, with just the facial detail darkish and the rest largely unfinished.

back on track....

well all the distractions are attended to... and the scanning of my massive backlog of sketches has begun... wow there are a lot... so watch your emails ladies

there are however a few sketchs i cant remember the model, sogirls if you are expecting a sketch drop me an email or a message (Yahoo or MSn)... and maybe remind me of your ID and your email addy... otherwise watch out for the next cinderella posts

Saturday, March 05, 2005

yet another email blog test

Not sure why I'm even trying this again.... but miracles happen sometimes

well the spamming incident seems to be over...

I've got quiet a scanning backlog... sorry for those waiting... I will get onto it as soon as I can... my friend is out of hospital... and I think TLC is required.... so don't panic I haven't stopped sketching or anything drastic like that

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

WARNING

Please don't click on any web links posted in here... well for the time being... untill i can figure out why spam is being posted here...

Nort

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

makan angin

makan angin means literally "eat wind" and its a common way for an indonesians to say I'm not going to tell you what I'm doing, I'm just going for a stroll (to eat the wind)... no further correspondance will be entered into...

other times, people might go looking for the wind... cari angin

so whilst I've been away sorry, I'm back now but I'm not telling where or when... so you'll have to taste the wind... but I am sorry my last few email posts did not make it into this blog... bloody technology again..!! I might try and rescue a couple and repost them later.

... glad to see this post worked :)

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

please don't despair

unfortunately i'm going to be busy out in the real world.... away from
the net... for a few more days... i appologise to those waiting for
scans of sketches... but i will email them when next I get a chance to
do the scanning etc... no promises but some time soon