Doodles
Inktober 2024
I nearly didn’t bother this time round, but the bottom line is that I actually enjoy doing it. Each year I have grandiose ideas of making one intricate masterpiece that involves all the prompts and unveil each aspect of the piece each day and it slowly reveals an outer story. Like my failed attempt from … Read more
NFT : An unlikely project
Over the summer I’ve been reading about the “Blockchain” and Crypto-currencies, mostly due to developments with the day job, but it soon brought me to the attention of the bizarre phenomenon of NFTs, or “Non Fungible Tokens”. This is again thanks to my inquisitive son who just loves to stick his nose in all these … Read more
Doodle : AI Killer Robot
This post is brought to you by this killer album Gong – Live at the Gong Family Unconventional Gathering, release in 2021 and contains all the hits I love from their extensive discography. I really love the current line-up with Kavus Torabi at the helm. I got asked today at work what a good User … Read more
Doodles: A Circle Squared
Sunday afternoon doodle. Building on the pencil sketch from my last blog entry. I need magnifier spectacles now, which is a really horrible admission. This time I was more strategic in my placement of the big circles and worked around them. Composition seems better. I also had a nightmare trying to re-point this blog to … Read more
Doodles : Circle Marks
On one of several work calls this week, doodling and definitely paying attention. Doodling has always helped me concentrate on the conversations, even though it may not look like it. One of my doodling pursuits is to attain the perfect free-hand circle. This should be in my sketchbook, but it’s not always at hand. I … Read more
Doodles : Daggers
Back from far too long away. I will keep these posts short and sweet. This is a recurring doodle of some daggers I like to draw absent mindedly. Knives and guns are a favourite of mine and I will dig through my archives and re-post a lot of these artworks from the few years I’ve … Read more
An especially inky Inktober 2022
So that’s Inktober done for another year. I totally failed last year with an overly ambitious plan, but cracked it this year by being quick and free. I also took the decision to avoid colour and only use Platinum Carbon Ink which is permanent for watercolour and also very friendly to fountain pens. For 90% … Read more