Sketchy character…

Last year I was feeling the need to get back to drawing and sketching. Photography and photoshopping are both fine, but the creative skills required to get a decent photo aren’t quite as engaging as those required to produce an image on paper from scratch.

Science fiction doodles are my ‘default’ – my inspiration since childhood, and a genre I find easiest to get into  so an easy way to get back to sketching.

Apart from anything else, these days it’s too easy to edit out your mistakes. I wanted to recover the ability to draw with bolder strokes and fewer errors.

Doing sketches every day is a good way to get back into practice – forcing yourself to draw even when you don’t feel particularly inspired is a good way to develop techniques for when you do feel inspired again.

To add a bit of challenge, I decided to…