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Thinking ahead to loosening restrictions here in Scotland, one more day to go...

Whalesongs to round the week off (as usual).

Just messing around with charcoal and graphite.

Cryptically does it... A narwhal swims around who-knows-what-it-all-means.

More practice drawing shapes from some still life blocks.

Driven by my mishearing of something Dr. David Scheel was talking about regarding the octopus Heidi he kept in his home for a yearlong period... His documentary ‘Octopus: Making Contact’ is a lovely thing worth watching I should add!

Charcoal on Bristol mounted on board

Illustration using watercolour and pencils

Charcoal on Bristol mounted on board

Current events mean retreating into my sketchbook is the way of things today, until it blows over(ish, emphasis on the -ish).

Decided to do something colorful to refresh my mind a bit.

Texture experimentation.

Narwhals it seems, and I’m sure I’ve said this before, are a perfect remedy for art blocks I'd say. Wasn’t going anywhere last night, that is until I gave things another go and this fellow here saved the day!

Improvising a thing or two centred around krakens and all things cephalopod flavoured :)

This is another Stephen Gammell inspired drawing. Done with graphite, charcoal, kneeded eraser and whiteout. It ain't perfect but we gettin there!