Drawing

Drawing Dragon Heads

Hello people. I haven’t forgotten that I promised you the Condo750 post (car, bike rally). Decided to share something new that I’ve been doing, instead.

Recently, I’ve been learning how to draw dragons. I suppose I am actually relearning how to draw – something I’ve barely done over the last 25-30 years. This is the second version of this drawing, after ‘fixing’ it, as you can plainly see. I used a tutorial on DragoArt.

dragon head drawing

Using a DragoArt tutorial: take two

 

I have a dragon ‘art book’ on Wattpad, and I also put these drawings on my official author platform cjrandall.com. (That reminds me, I must update my publishing schedule there.) I also pop them on Instagram if I think of it.

wattpad cover of 'art book' I’m Learning to Draw Dragons is actually doing okay on Wattpad, I think, despite only having 8 drawings with 2 of them both variations of the one above – with a total of 293 reads and 69 votes. Each page/chapter is counted as one read when someone spends enough time on it.

And, in case you are wondering, Taniel has 24 published parts on Wattpad, with 476 reads and 47 votes and has been added to some reading lists. I’m happy with the 10% ratio of votes to reads.

 

 

chalked dragon head

this is the only one I’ve dare colour – I used chalk

 

I eventually realised that I needed to put some cardboard under the sheet in the project book so I don’t gouge the page underneath. I haven’t got a delicate hand! My first few sketches still have the constructions lines.

 

my first dragon drawing

the first one

 

My eye-brain-hand coordination has improved over my 8 sessions. I’m less daunted by the blank page. Speaking of blank pages, I better get back to my writing. I think I prefer blank pages to editing!  Catch youse later.

Thanks for looking and please have a great day.   🙂

 

 

 

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Bees & Bugs

More bee tongues

Just checking in to say I haven’t time to do the Condo750 post today, but I did find time earlier to take more photos of drinking bees. Do you know that the age of a bee is hinted at by the baldness of its back?

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a golden bee drinking from the side of the water pond (Nikon D3000)

 

Have a good day.    😀

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Bees & Bugs

Honey Bee’s Proboscis

Hello people,  I’m back from a trip away over our Easter break. Leaving Thursday morning for Condobolin, New South Wales, we arrived home yesterday around 6pm. I had a wonderful visit with my brother and his wife. Who knows? I may actually tell you about it. I’ve a bad track record for following up, so I will not promise this time.

The bird’s water bowl and the top two tiers of my fibreglass pond dried up while we were away, even though the weather was predicted to be coolish.

bee on edgeof pond, tongue starting to come out

tongue starting to come out

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