Drawing Ears

A selection of just a few interesting shapes that ears can make!

Inside the Shed!

A brand new show...

Drawing a funny head!

A sketch to show how you can make a funny head that illustrates exaggeration, as you can see the 'weight' of the head mass is in the top of the skull, so the lower section lose their weight to help keep a balance.

Oriental sketch

A far east themed sketch in Zen Brush, I had fun creating this sketch!

Drawing eyes

Eyes are so interesting to draw! Unique to every person, but it is so fascinating to study the shapes that each persons eyes make, I enjoy looking at eyes to understand how they form the curves and lines along with the setting of the actual eye socket that seats the eye ball. This creates the individual perfection of a persons eye and the excitement an artist feels when drawing the eyes.

New gadget!

Yesterday I bought the Apple iPad Keyboard Dock! The keyboard has a connecting port tat the iPad sits onto very easily and then your ready to start using the keyboard immediately! The keyboard uses the power supply of the iPad itself, so no cables or batteries are required. And it works beautifully and opens up the iPad as a true computer, allowing the user to have more functions and work on the iPad as if they had a laptop. A new an updated version of the OS is due for release later this year, OS Lion and I hope that it will give the iPad an even closer function to a true computer with things like sharing and connecting files and other pieces of hardware. But I love the new keyboard and I am typing this text with it, which makes it very easy and a pleasure o do so. The on screen keyboard on the iPad is good but this new external keyboard is GREAT. The iPad Keyboard Dock now refreshes such apps as Pages, Keynote and Numbers and gives the user a real workspace environment fel to using the iPad!

Twestival!

In March I shall be attending my very first Twestival!

It is a networking event that is raising funds for a worthwhile charity and I shall be drawing there, donating my services and hopefully raising some money towards the charity!

Click here to see and stop by the Twestival website

I am at the venue today for a photo shoot that is part of the publicity to help promote the event and I will let you know how it goes!

I will have the chance to meet new people at the event in March and have some fun with everyone! Being able to use my skills in such a way and to help raise funds for a charity is great!

I do already receive a lot of requests from charities and it would be very easy to spend all my time just drawing for free but I have to make a living and so I like to pick and choose the charities that I want to work with. I work on the basis of local charities first and then the larger national charities after, if it fits in with everything!

But the Twestival should be great as its local, only a short drive up the M11, about 20 minutes from my house and the charity is a worthwhile cause.

Animation comes to the blog!

I now have a very cool app on my iPad that allows me to create animations! Way cool!

At the moment i have put together a few very short and simples animations to help me practice but I hope to produce a short neat animation that I hope you will enjoy!

So see the YouTube video from my channel, below here and I hope you like it!

Website update!

On Friday I was able to do an update to my main website, giving it a tidy up and creating two new pages for the gallery of celebrity and live on the spot examples.

I do find it really interesting on HTML can be used to create websites and lots of fun playing around with it! Sometimes I do make mistakes but I find I learn so much from that and it helps my understanding of using HTML.

My only concern is how to ensure my site still receives a very good position in the search results but again, its fun working on that and learning as you go.

Not too much has changed on the update but I hope it makes the site look better? Let me know what you think?

Weekend drawing!

Its the weekend and as usual I have the pleasure of drawing and entertaining at weddings over the two days!

Weddings are great fun and as people are in a mood of celebration and joy, along with some alcohol mixed in, we often have a great time with many guests laughing and smiling at what I have drawn!

The really nice thing is the guests who stand by and watch me draw. I really like that as it feels like I am appreciated as they pay me some lovely compliments about my drawings! It is nice when people appreciate what you do and it gives you a real strong feeling of job satisfaction!

Wishing you a great weekend!

Colour self portrait

Again on the iPad this time using ArtStudio, I put together this cartoon of myself with colour.

Artstudio allows you to work with layers and this makes doing a cartoon with colour, nice and simple. I have a top layer for my black line work and then underneath, a layer for the colour.

Hope you like it?

Masquerade Ball in aid of Troop Aid and Combat Stress

Scents Of Occasion are proud to be working on this event for two extremely worthwhile causes, Troop aid and Combat stress. Why not come along to what promises to be an amazing night, the chance to play dress up, drink champagne , eat and dance whilst helping raise money for our brave men!!!!

 

9th April 2011

 

7pm until midnight

Masquerade Ball in aid of Troop Aid and Combat Stress.

Warwickshire county cricket club

Jaguar club

Edgbaston

Birmingham

B5 7QU

Drinks reception with photographer
3 course meal with wine.
Raffle and Auction.
Music by "All Funked Up"


Tables seat 10. Tickets £60. Sponsorship opportunites available.

TICKETS HAVE NOW BEEN REDUCED TO £50 SO YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO COME AND HAVE A GREAT NIGHT AND RAISE SOME MONEY FOR TWO WORTHWHILE CAUSES.
£20 DEPOSIT TO SECURE TICKET!!
19:00- 23:59

For further information or to obtain tickets please email palmereventsplanning@hotmail.com

or enquire through my website www.wix.com/scentsofoccasion/florists

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Steve Hearn - Professional Caricaturist

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Dairy Cow

This ones a milker!

Moo moo cow

Drawn on my iPhone with my finger! A friendly cow!

Old boy!

Thank you to everyone who left their very kind Birthday wishes online for me!

Today I am going to try and record this weeks Inside the Shed webcast and also update the HTML on draw4u.com!

Later we have open house for people to pop round and have a drink on me!

Vblog!

Today I share with you how I approach looking at a face to see shapes that will help me draw a caricature. I hope you find it interesting and helpful!

Horse!

Fun sketch that was neigh no problem!

Valentines Day message!

ISCA convention

Registration is now open for the 20th ISCA convention!

Click here to stop by the page: http://caricature.org/caricature_convention_registration.php

Today's Drawing!

Working on this today!

Girona Minicon!

I shall be attending the first two days of the ISCA Girona MiniCon in April!

My wife and I will arrive on the Monday but have to leave on the Wednesday night to get back for Weddings I have at the end of that week.

We are very excited that we will have the chance to meet so many friends again and also make some new friends!

Why not join us?

Click here for the Minicon webite

Inside the Shed!

This weeks show!

Art fun!

Just drawing for fun, making up crazy faces on the iPad and enjoying every minute!

Art

When I was at school my art teacher taught us that light and shadow were very important in understanding how to draw. He would give us homework that required us to look through a newspaper and find a face that had lots of dark shadows. As newspaper print back then was made up of black dots, it was easy to find a face. We then had to draw only the black areas. Just the blocks of black and nothing else.

As I did this I soon learnt how the shadows create a picture and it helped me to see and look in a different way. To look for shapes. It's called negative space, you draw the areas around the subject instead of the actual shape or outline.

Caricature

Here's a self caricature that I drew on my iPad in Zen Brush. Caricature is something that rests in drawing and even the written word. It brings meaning to exaggeration and that can apply to many aspects of our lives. Political caricature bring a message and even criticism to the audience who read and absorb what has been drawn. Live event caricatures bring fun and entertainment that often brings a smile and gift caricatures are unique and special to give to someone special. Shall I continue?
Well not really, I am sure you can see that I am simply trying to show that caricature is much more than a silly drawing of a big nose. Caricature is a part of our lives!
I wonder what you look like as a caricature?

Now that's a chin!

A chin for Sunday!

Tough guy

Caricature fun of a make believe tough guy! Drawn in Zen Brush on my iPad.

Happy New Year!

It's Chinese New Year! Have a good one!

iPhone drawing

Drawing on the iPhone in Zen Brush is possible and fun when using the artist touch pen. It is a great way to practice on a small screen or canvas, helping me to focus more on shapes and drawing the lines correctly!

iPad sketch fun

Sketching on the iPad and the iPhone is becoming more popular within the artistic community and everyone is having fun! Here is a little dog sketch....

Twee tie bird

I do enjoy drawing birds! Lots of fun and I guess I was influenced as a child with tweetie pie from looney tunes!