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Tag Archives: drawing
flower illustrations
i was so pleased with how my series of flower drawings were going that i decided to give some of them a purpose. i chose three drawings that i would develop into finished digital collage outcomes and then produced three … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, artwork, azalea, blossom, botanical illustration, chris cowdrill, collage, dianthus, digital artwork, digital collage, digital illustration, drawing, flowers, forget-me-not, illustration, photoshop artwork, photoshop illustration, rhododendron
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home again
well, it’s been another funny year, and one that began with us going into lockdown again here in the uk. this has been the experience of people in different countries around the world at different times this year. all this … Continue reading
Posted in sketchbook
Tagged art, artwork, azalea, botanical art, chris cowdrill, digital illustration, drawing, flower art, flower drawing, flowers, illustration, ipad drawing, iris, jasmine, lockdown, observational drawing, procreate art, rhododendron
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more drawings from the garden
so, after my last post (2 weeks into lockdown), i continued drawing in the garden. i produced a series of three images that used a lot more colour. i felt like i was painting really, rather than drawing in the … Continue reading
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Tagged allium, art, corona art, covid art, daffodil, digital art, digital drawing, digital illustration, Digital painting, digital sketchbook, drawing, flower drawing, flowers, garden, garden drawing, illustration, ipad drawing, ipadsketch, nature, nature drawing, observational drawing, procreate, procreate art, rhododenron, sketchbook, sunflower, sweet pea
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garden drawings
over the last couple of weeks i’ve been drawing in the garden. like most people we’ve been in isolation/lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. one message that i’ve got through a lot of social media is that we should all … Continue reading
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Tagged art, corona art, digital drawing, digital sketch, drawing, flower drawing, flowers, garden, ipad, ipadsketch, observational drawing, procreate, sketchbook, sketches, thoughts
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godzilla sketchbook
i recently started a new project based on the king of the monsters – godzilla. i’ve been drawing from the showa-era films (which covers 15 films from 1954-75), and have been working from gojira himself as well as a range … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple pencil, art, artwork, chris cowdrill, cinema, digital illustration, drawing, ghidorah, godzilla, gojira, illustration, ipad pro, kaiju, king of the monsters, mechagodzilla, procreate, rodan, sketch, sketchbook, toho
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baby shoes
if you’ve seen my twitter feed, then you’ll know i’ve been drawing a lot of shoes recently. i’d wanted to document all of my daughter’s footwear from when she was first born (just over a year ago), and had been … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple pencil, art, chris cowdrill, digital drawing, digital illustration, drawing, illustration, ipad drawing, procreate, shoes, sketch, sketchbook
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sketches
earlier this week i was at oxford’s natural history museum and pitt rivers museum, accompanied by 40 art students from the college where i lecture. the objective being for them to gather visual reference for their first project of the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe photoshop sketch, Apple pencil, art, arts, artwork, chris cowdrill, digital drawing, digital illustration, dinosaur, drawing, illustration, ipad, museum, natural history, oxford, pitt rivers, sketch, sketchbook
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toys 2
this is a quick follow up to the last post. with the intention of producing a series of images for exhibition, i continued to draw from my daughter’s toys using my ipad pro and apple pencil. the three new drawings … Continue reading
Posted in exhibitions, graphics, sketchbook, Uncategorized
Tagged adobe sketch, Apple pencil, art, arts, artwork, digital illustration, drawing, exhibition, graphics, illustration, ipad, sketch, toys
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toys
i got a couple of new toys this week – after thinking it over for longer than i care to admit and researching a lot over the last few weeks, i finally bought an iPad Pro. i bought an apple … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe, adobe sketch, Apple pencil, art, arts, artwork, children, children's illustration, chris cowdrill, digital illustration, Digital painting, drawing, graphics, illustration, ipad, Sheep, sketch, sketchbook, toys
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sketches from exhibitions 2
this is another post collecting together some work from my sketchbook. i started making a point of drawing sculptural work when visiting galleries and exhibitions – capturing in two dimensions things that should fundamentally be seen in three. some of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, arts, artwork, chris cowdrill, drawing, exhibition, fine art, ikon gallery, lee bul, pavel buchler, peter hiorns, rowland emett, sketch, sketchbook, tate modern
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