Drawing

[pumbaa]

I know quite a few of you take a camera when your out as there have been hundreds of really good piccys posted on here . But does anybody take a pencil and paper and draw ?
I have allways liked the effects in a good pencil drawing and it occured to me that it might be worth trying some sketching whilst out .
Pumbaa

[Brendan]

I'm not much of an artist but I do take a pencil and notepad for writing notes on ideas I get whilst out in the wilds. Even so I have recently found myself using my mobile phone to record verbal notes for playback later.

[sharp88]

pencils *groan* only for marking maps and even so I usually use a highlighter. Pens have always been more my thing...Always take a small spiral pad with me and the urge to draw comes within a few days when i get more settled into things.

[Hoodoo]

In the winter I like to collect twigs, key them out, and sometimes draw them.

[ArkAngel]

eeerrr no

I can't draw to save my life......that's one of the reasons i took up photography

[Hoodoo]

eeerrr no

I can't draw to save my life......that's one of the reasons i took up photography

Neither can I. That's why I draw twigs.

Something worth checking out:

[Pipistrelle]

Yep, i do it is a relatively safe activity to keep you going when its too dark for carving and stuff.

[Toddy]

I do too, little sketches, diagrams in my notebooks; sometimes a shape that appeals that I'll use later in a needlefelt, frequently a set of shades that are just too *right* together to forget about.
Like Hoodoo I draw part of plants, kind of sharpens the details, y'know?
I've taken to carrying some watercolour pencils if I'm out for long enough to be drawing. They sketch like crayons but add a little water and they're as good a gouache

Cheers,
Toddy

[Rebel]

I took up photography because I didn't like going out with my art gear. I thought it would be more practical to photograph stuff and then go back home and use the pictures for reference.

I ended up being more into photography than drawing and painting.

[xylaria]

I love drawing when I am out. I also like using natural ingredents to make art materials. I have made japanese inks sticks from cherry gum and charcoal. I gather locally a hard red clay that draws like a sepia pencil. It fun to gather and use because no two peices are the same hardness or shade. I just need to learn how to job squirells to make some brushes.

[hanzo]

Aloha Hoodoo,

That is a darn nice looking twig!

[Thorfinn]

I used to really like drawing woodland as a boy. But know i just don't do it anymore, don't know why. But i think it is a more enjoyable but it is quicker for you to get the camera out and snap a quick one.

[Pablo]

I tend to use the camera as a a record of what I find and see more and more, but I do keep a field notebook as well. I transfer notes to another journal I keep at home.



Pablo

[fred gordon]

I tend to use the camera as a a record of what I find and see more and more, but I do keep a field notebook as well. I transfer notes to another journal I keep at home.



Pablo

Pablo. I wish I could be as organised as you seem to be. I am a rubbish drawer. Someone told me I try to put in too much detail.
To get back to original question. I always have a notebook with me, my wife says I'm obsessed with notebooks. Try these, I love them www.moleskine.com

[sharp88]

i cant say writng down thoughts in a journal has ever interested me. iv tried it before, but my memory is just too good. il start doin it when im startin to go senile

[Pablo]

Pablo. I wish I could be as organised as you seem to be. I am a rubbish drawer. Someone told me I try to put in too much detail.
To get back to original question. I always have a notebook with me, my wife says I'm obsessed with notebooks. Try these, I love them www.moleskine.com

I've not tried moleskine although I know about them. I've used Paperblanks in the past 'cos I like the leather-look, but they're not too good when using ink.

I must admit I do make work for myself but I like to keep a good journal and enhance it with (bad) sketches. My nature journals go back 20 years. Great to look back.



Now I'm more reliant on the camera for field work. My new camera allows sound bites to be attached to the photo which is interesting. This method is good for on-line journals (blogs) like mine.

Pablo

[sharp88]

i dont see the point in fancy leather notebooks in all honesty...why not jus use a normal, decent quality paper sketch book and store it in a plastic wallet!?!?!?!?!

i wouldnt be as loose with drawings, knowing that my notebook cost god knows how much and be more likely to faff about and mess it up.

[Toddy]

There's a quiet pleasure in using good tools, clothing, equipment.........and they *last*.
I have notebooks written hundreds of years ago, and I treasure them and the connection they give me with those of my family I never met. I doubt mine will ever be as highly regarded, but even for my own enjoyment I'll write, draw and date them. My family generally live a very long time; photographs are a very new aide memoire, the notebooks have a long provenance and they are a very personal record.
I tried using cheap notebooks for fieldtrips at Uni, and they fell apart in the rain; the colour of the edge papers bled, a real mess. I'll buy good quality ones or make my own.

Cheers,
Toddy

[British Red]

Beautiful drawings Pablo, I am in awe of things I simply cannot do - music, art in fact sadly most things creative. I adore you sketch of the brock!

[JDilling]

Beyond mechanical drawing and drafting (and even then I'm thankful that CAD exists ) I'm not good for anything that needs to be drawn. My realism looks, shall we say, abstract- to put it nicely.

[Toddy]

But it's *your* realism, your memories, your impressions

cheers,
Toddy

[fred gordon]

There's a quiet pleasure in using good tools, clothing, equipment.........and they *last*.
I have notebooks written hundreds of years ago,

Cheers,
Toddy

Surely not by you!!
However, I know what you mean. There is great pleasure in using nice things. Life is about more than either utility or price.

[moko]

I reckon a good journal containing the personal thoughts and interpretations of our experiences within the natural world are worth a great deal more than a set of dry photographic records or trophy images. It takes time, care, reflextion and a genuine appeciation of our surroundings to record observations in such a way........to just sit, watch and listen, to study.....to learn.

[nickg]

Heres a sketch of the campfire that I made on the first day of my woodlore fundamental bushcraft course.



I planned to do more but there just wasnt time.

Cheers
Nick