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Subject: Hello from London

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Jim222
Posts:9

12/17/2007 5:43 AM Alert 
Hello.
I'm an artist living in London who draws a lot and works in arts journalism. I came across this forum - and all of a sudden I find that I have joined in.
I do a lot of work by scanning drawings and then working with colour digitally (you can see some of them on http://www.james-hobbs.co.uk/pages/images_c.html). I'd be interested to hear from anyone who works in this way, or anyone else really.
Best wishes to you all.
Jim

www.james-hobbs.blogspot.com

LMB

Posts:445

12/17/2007 7:28 AM Alert 
Hi Jim,
Welcome to the forum.
Leon

Http://www.artabus.com/leonbayless/
http://www.catchlightartgallery.com/leonbayless.htm
quand le coeur est dans un bon endroit tout est possible
when the heart is in a good place all is possible
bggordon

Posts:220

12/18/2007 11:42 PM Alert 
Hi Jim Welcome! I'm in Art school learning Media Arts & Animation. So far it's been mostly drawing basics, but I'm getting ready to start all the digital courses. I look forward to seeing your art!
Jim222
Posts:9

01/15/2008 9:08 AM Alert 
Thanks for your kind welcome. I have, I hope, attached a few bits of my work - these are quite small drawings made in sketchbooks around London that I sometimes scan and add colour to.
There are more at my website and blog.












www.james-hobbs.blogspot.com

Maggie429

Posts:244

01/15/2008 10:16 AM Alert 

Welcome John - check out your website - loved the Houses of Parliament.

Hope to see more of your work.  It is very good.. open and bright.


 


Mgi
www.hoviscreations.com
River

Posts:360

01/15/2008 5:16 PM Alert 

Hello John: I'm a painter, but my middle son does drawing and then scans and works on the detail and color on the computer. My older son (a young filmmaker) is teaching Digital Annimation (and is living home for now so that he can pay off his college loans quickly), and our teen daughter is very good at photoshop and just got an electronic art tablet for christmas...she draws with a soft "pen" on a screen and it goes directly on her photoshop page. Maybe I can get them to share something!

Your pictures are wonderful...and (dare I say it) I'd think very marketable. They have a wonderful accesability and I'm sure people would love prints of them as reminders of their stay in London. I think they are charming...I used to take kids out of school for a day and go draw architecture!

Enjoy the forum...nice people on here...lots to learn from one another.

janey
Posts:85

01/16/2008 1:58 AM Alert 

Hi Jim,

I am very impress of your work.  I like it; I think I should practice this kind of sketch sometime.  Any tips that you can pass on?  Now I sketch portraits and figures. 

janey

www.janeypassion.com


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Jim222
Posts:9

01/16/2008 8:23 AM Alert 
Oh, blimey. Tips? None really, except doing it over and over again and knowing that you can't make a wrong mark. If a line is leaning the wrong way I draw another next to it leaning the other way, and they cancel each other out. Two mistakes are better than one.
I once had six months living in a dormobile van, or whatever they are called in the US, drawing my way around England. I was drawing every day. The ones I did on day one were so different to the ones I did at the end. Like I said, doing it lots is the best thing. But we're all still learning.
Jim

www.james-hobbs.blogspot.com

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