Tag Archives: daily drawing

Six-score selfies

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Ed Mostly

A round up of recent(ish) selfies. First is my take on the ‘One week, One hundred people’ sketching challenge from earlier this year. One hundred mirror selfies in one week, all tiny and done with pencil and smudge stump. I … Continue reading →

Posted in daily drawing, One week, One hundred people, pencil, pencil self-portraits, self-portrait | Tagged daily drawing, multiple sketches of expressions, pencil portraits, selfie pencil sketch, Spiritualized | 8 Comments

Slight return

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Ed Mostly

A quick post after many months of absence, apologies. The sketching has carried on in the meantime (I passed my ten year anniversary of daily drawing in March!), but the website had gone into hibernation. Here are some recent Bath … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, cafe, park, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath sketches, daily drawing, drawing from life, urban sketching, Yardbirds | 8 Comments

Pencil selfies

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Ed Mostly

The latest batch of quick late evening mirror selfies from my daily drawing habit. All done using the blackest and least smudgy pencil that I’ve found, the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black. It’s high carbon and low (no?) graphite so the … Continue reading →

Posted in daily drawing, pencil, self-portrait | Tagged daily drawing, Mars Lumograph Black, pencil selfies, Self Portrait Sundays, sketching self from life, Visage | 2 Comments

Seven year sketch

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Ed Mostly

In March 2011 I read my wife’s copy of Danny Gregory’s ‘Creative License’ and started doing a drawing from life every day; this was one of my better decisions… Some days the drawings are tiny brief scraps, my hand on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, daily drawing, every day matters, sketchbooks, sketching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged daily drawing, Danny Gregory, every day matters, LCD Soundsystem, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 12 Comments

‘Cheer up, it’s already happened…’

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Ed Mostly

A commitment to daily drawing from life (six years so far…) often means relying on late night selfies. Here’s the latest collection of around fifty (!), with the usual apology for the severe/odd/blank expressions. The first batch were all done … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, daily drawing, faces, fude pen, self-portrait | Tagged daily drawing, Sailor Fude pen, selfie sketching, sketching self-portraits, The Specials | 5 Comments

Going orange…

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

There’s a likeness in there somewhere! Short winter days so less outdoor sketching. I keep the daily drawing habit going through late evening mirror selfies, all in bamboo dip-pen with De Atramentis ink.

Posted in bamboo dip pen, coloured ink, daily drawing, faces, line drawing, monochrome, self-portrait | Tagged bamboo dip pen, daily drawing, De Atramentis inks, Love, sketching selfies | 2 Comments

2 hands, 2 keys, 2 watches, and some scribbles

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Ed Mostly

My 201st post is more sketches of things found on the table before going to bed. I’ve done a sketch every day for the last 3 years, and it’s these late night ones that are often the hardest to start, but also the most rewarding. … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, every day matters, from life, hands, home, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, objects | Tagged bunch of keys, daily drawing, everyday drawing, fountain pen, Hand of Fatima, Kaiser Chiefs, late night sketches, sketches of hands, sketches of keys, sketches of watches | 2 Comments

Specky

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Ed Mostly

My commitment to daily drawing is regularly tested late evening. ‘It’s 10pm, I haven’t managed a sketch yet, what could I draw?’ Favourite models include a glass of water, my left hand, a model skull, or figures on TV; this … Continue reading →