Ilkim

I’m finding that the only way to keep drawing when I’m really busy with work, as I am right now, is to draw in snatched pockets of time wherever I can find them. It’s hard with ballpoint pen drawings especially to keep a sense of continuity in drawings made this way – looking at this portrait of Ilkim from Sktchy I can see clearly where I stooped and restarted. But perhaps that isn’t so obvious to you? And coming back to a drawing a day later certainly has some advantages; I see values much better when I’ve stepped away from a portrait for several hours.

I drew Ilkim with Bic 4-colour ballpoint pens in a Life Noble Note Plain notebook.

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hareinthemoon

I love drawing things. These days I am rarely found without a pen, pencil or stylus in my hands. In my working life I spend a lot of time in meetings and classrooms, reading papers and strategies, so my home life provides a creative antidote to all that! I also have chronic pain, lots of it. I have scoliosis, fibromyalgia and CRPS, so my life is a balancing act, trying to balance work, which make me feel part of the real world, with pain, which is ever present, and art, which soothes my pain.

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