This is an Ink drawing of American tennis star Ben Shelton during his service motion.
This picture is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan.
Service Motion 7
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Ready For Action
This is a drawing of British tennis star Jamie Murray crouching down ready to spring into action during a doubles match.
This picture is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan.
Service Motion 6
This is a drawing of American Taylor Fritz during his service motion.
It is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan.
Service Motion 4
This picture is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan. It was the first time I’ve tried drawing tennis players live and it was a fun challenge to try to capture the split second poses as they played. I would watch the players first for a few games to observe their movements and decide on which poses they would repeat that I could draw. I figured out that the serve and return stances were the most often repeated poses that allowed me the most time to try to capture a likeness, so I studied these for particular instances and poses that I wanted to try to draw. I would start (by first deciding on the pose I wanted to draw) with very loose line drawings showing the basic body shapes and angles and each time the players would repeat the shot I would see the poses for at most a few seconds and add to the drawings. It was very interesting to see the similarities and differences in the forms and shapes that each player would make. From different body shapes and feet angles to the open palms and fingers when throwing the ball up to serve. I enjoyed noticing these idiosyncrasies and trying to capture the ones that were specific to each player. At one point I was working on up to six or eight drawings at one time, swapping between them adding details and refining them throughout each game. It was definitely a big challenge in quick observation and mark making to do! Some of the more finished drawings are ones I was able to return to as I watched the same player on a different day as the tournament progressed.
Returning 2
This is the second Ink drawing of Canadian star Felix Auger-Alliasime preparing to return serve.
It is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan. It was the first time I’ve tried drawing tennis players live and it was a fun challenge to try to capture the split second poses as they played. I would watch the players first for a few games to observe their movements and decide on which poses they would repeat that I could draw. I figured out that the serve and return stances were the most often repeated poses that allowed me the most time to try to capture a likeness, so I studied these for particular instances and poses that I wanted to try to draw. I would start (by first deciding on the pose I wanted to draw) with very loose line drawings showing the basic body shapes and angles and each time the players would repeat the shot I would see the poses for at most a few seconds and add to the drawings. It was very interesting to see the similarities and differences in the forms and shapes that each player would make. From different body shapes and feet angles to the open palms and fingers when throwing the ball up to serve. I enjoyed noticing these idiosyncrasies and trying to capture the ones that were specific to each player. At one point I was working on up to six or eight drawings at one time, swapping between them adding details and refining them throughout each game. It was definitely a big challenge in quick observation and mark making to do! Some of the more finished drawings are ones I was able to return to as I watched the same player on a different day as the tournament progressed.
Service Motion 2
This picture is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan. It was the first time I’ve tried drawing tennis players live and it was a fun challenge to try to capture the split second poses as they played. I would watch the players first for a few games to observe their movements and decide on which poses they would repeat that I could draw. I figured out that the serve and return stances were the most often repeated poses that allowed me the most time to try to capture a likeness, so I studied these for particular instances and poses that I wanted to try to draw. I would start (by first deciding on the pose I wanted to draw) with very loose line drawings showing the basic body shapes and angles and each time the players would repeat the shot I would see the poses for at most a few seconds and add to the drawings. It was very interesting to see the similarities and differences in the forms and shapes that each player would make. From different body shapes and feet angles to the open palms and fingers when throwing the ball up to serve. I enjoyed noticing these idiosyncrasies and trying to capture the ones that were specific to each player. At one point I was working on up to six or eight drawings at one time, swapping between them adding details and refining them throughout each game. It was definitely a big challenge in quick observation and mark making to do! Some of the more finished drawings are ones I was able to return to as I watched the same player on a different day as the tournament progressed.
Serving Shadows 2
This is part of a collection of Ink drawings made from life whilst watching the ATP 500 Tokyo Open in Tokyo,Japan. It was the first time I’ve tried drawing tennis players live and it was a fun challenge to try to capture the split second poses as they played. I would watch the players first for a few games to observe their movements and decide on which poses they would repeat that I could draw. I figured out that the serve and return stances were the most often repeated poses that allowed me the most time to try to capture a likeness, so I studied these for particular instances and poses that I wanted to try to draw. I would start (by first deciding on the pose I wanted to draw) with very loose line drawings showing the basic body shapes and angles and each time the players would repeat the shot I would see the poses for at most a few seconds and add to the drawings. It was very interesting to see the similarities and differences in the forms and shapes that each player would make. From different body shapes and feet angles to the open palms and fingers when throwing the ball up to serve. I enjoyed noticing these idiosyncrasies and trying to capture the ones that were specific to each player. At one point I was working on up to six or eight drawings at one time, swapping between them adding details and refining them throughout each game. It was definitely a big challenge in quick observation and mark making to do! Some of the more finished drawings are ones I was able to return to as I watched the same player on a different day as the tournament progressed.
Boosbar 2
This is the second portrait of an elephant called Boosbar (not sure if it’s spelt with an r or not!) made at the Elephant Safari Park in Bali. My wife and I had a great time there watching and interacting with the elephants. This picture was painted as Boosbar walked around and passed us on his way to give some visitors a ride.
Pain and Beauty 3
This is the third drawing of my injured knee and shows a good angle of the lump that had to be drained. As you can see, the bruise had spread down my calf almost to my ankle! There were a lot of nice colours in there!
When life sends you lemon sized lumps, draw ‘em and drain ‘em!
Self-Portrait
This is an old Oil Paint on Paper self portrait painting from the glory(?) days of hair! When hair was more of a top of the head thing than a plucking out the ears issue!
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