What I find hard to do!

This is a hard blog to write, mainly because you have to admit what you can not do, to write about it. My shortfall is hands, I have always had trouble getting the shapes and shading right! Well since I have had the time and inclination to put the work in to get the hang of my nemesis:).

Well as you see above this drawing is of Grant Mcconnell from  a Scottish band called "The Picts". I did ask permission before doing the portrait.                     https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Picts/167712023288641?ref=ts

I saw this image on their Facebook page and wanted to draw it for a while his expression is wonderful and the composition is great, I am jealous of whoever took the image:) BUT I was dreading doing it because of my nemesis:( and the position of the fingers was worrying me also!

I bit the bullet and started the drawing and well I think it went quite well in fact, and with all the drawing I have been doing lately I did not seem to have the problem I had in the past, I was working myself up into a lather for no reason! So the lesson I learnt with this is that the old adage is true practice, practice and then practice some more:) 

Your heart

This is the hard side of what I do! Hang on a minute hi to new readers and a sorry to those who follow because I have not blogged for a while, I am here now!


Right back to the blog in hand, I have been busy completing a series of portraits (see above for one and http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajax66/sets/72157622912398199/ for the others) I have another one in this series on going but have frozen with it because, tomorrow I am being taken to a gig where these guys are playing! The group is called The Picts and they play folk rock and are very good (http://www.myspace.com/thepictsband ) have a listen! Well back to the subject, they have persuaded me to bring my sketchbook and camera with me and the hardest thing for me as an artist is to let the person of the portrait see the work. 


My heart goes into my work and so each image is part of me, I am putting my heart on show and well, sometimes I feel folk just say nice things and do not want to hurt my feelings, mind saying that, I know which images are not quite right and I think those are the ones I feel not so secure about. so think of me tomorrow when these images will be scrutinised.