How Do You Draw Buildings? I am often asked how I draw buildings, my answer? The same way I draw anything else. I am not an architect, I draw often by eye only and sometimes [...]
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Jan 222012
Those of you who read my recent article Drawing The Colosseum will know all about the trials and tribulations that came with that illustration, why I nearly gave up and why completing the cross hatching was [...]
Oct 242011
So my idea for this project was to draw the Colosseum on A2 sized paper, using the cross hatching technique with fineliner pens while also Time-Lapse filming the design to create an expressive and atmospheric [...]
Jun 142011
A Fine Art print of my Colosseum illustration created with pen & ink using the cross-hatching technique. This Giclée (pronounced “zhee-clay”) print produces extremely high quality reproductions of illustrations and artists work and is printed [...]
May 212011
Just to keep people up to date here is a image of my latest project. A cross-hatched drawing of Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I haven’t considered a background for this [...]
Apr 272011
Finally my Colosseum illustration is finished. Created with a cross hatching technique using black ink pens and pencil on 150 gsm Cartridge paper. Cross-Hatching is one of Alasdairs specialities and gives the work of Dark [...]
Mar 132011
Here is another updated preview of my Colosseum drawing created using pen & ink. This drawing is taking me absolutely ages to complete as I am only working on it when I have a spare [...]
Jan 022011
I decided to upload some Illustrations I found on my phone. These Illustrations were completed while still in hospital and so the quality of the images are not great due to me taking pictures of [...]
Mar 262010
I am often asked how I create the tonal scale in my drawings with some people even saying ‘looks like a printer did it, innit,’ so in this tutorial I will be showing how I [...]
Mar 082010
Finally finished the picture of Arsene Wenger, blog & website will be updated when poster is available for purchase so keep watching. My next post will contain a Tutorial on cross-hatching due to the amount [...]
