It's been a while... Oops

It's been a while *blushes due to lack of motivation to write blog posts*.

Oh well! A lot has been going on with my job and I've moved into a flat and ramble, ramble, ramble - we'll save that for another time.

Today I thought I'd pop into Waterstones to spend the rest of my book voucher and I found a book that even the cover was inspiring me so I had to buy it.

The Art of Urban Sketching

I love sketchbooks. I love the lack of precision with them. That images seem hurried and caught in the moment but this just adds to the story the drawing is telling. I have done a lot of on-the-go sketchbook drawings when on art holidays that I went on with school, but I have never found it a comfortable thing. I love seeing what other people produce but have never been overly satisfied with the results I was getting from my own sketchbook. Although, I look back on my sketchbooks now and find them really interesting to flick through.

The amount of detail that someone can actually get into a drawing in a public, and sometimes uncomfortable, space is just amazing. It's just about having the confidence to sit/stand somewhere for, what could be, a long time.

There are so many different styles and techniques that I see when looking through the book that I'm itching to get started on some sketches. I want to experiment with different techniques and hopefully develop some confidence with working in public.

This last image shows drawings/paintings done on public transport, something accessed by so many people on a day-to-day basis but no one thinks to look at the people around them in such a way and in so much detail. The two styles just shown here are so different and I especially love the bottom sketch which appears to have such free-flowing, quick marks that still clearly depict the people sitting in the typically uncomfortable, upright position of a passenger on public transport.

Hopefully this blog post with be followed up with images of my own work in a sketchbook I start to take everywhere. (Although that could be a while! I need serious encouragement and motivation.)

Bye for now!

Crazy Life Happenings

"Heather" I hear you shout to me through the internetic (that is a word) space, "what is happening with your life?" Well, I'm so glad you asked.

So I started my new job last Thursday. Very exciting, I know. I've done four days now and I'm very much enjoying it. It's got such a relaxed atmosphere and I'm learning lots of new things there and meeting lots of new people and hopefully it's going to be grrrrrrr-eat!

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On another note completely, I am seriously getting addicted to the game 'Match Dots'. Whilst the rest of the world seems to be loving Flappy Bird, I'm here with my dots game going a bit crazy. It's a great game and I'd genuinely recommend it but be prepared for a lot of your time to be taken up playing it.

Another crazy thing going on is that I've got my blog on Blog Lovin' making it easier for you guys to follow me. Therefore giving you no excuse not to follow me to keep updated on the happenings going on here. Seriously, it would make my day. There is a little button down the right hand side of this page where you can click to easily follow my blog. Blog Lovin' is also a great place to have all of your favourite blogs in one place making them much easier to read. If you don't have Blog Lovin' but you do have Google+ then I think you should at least follow me there, that button is also down the right hand side of this page. (I'll stop nagging now ;)).

I've come to realise that I need to give myself some more me time. I have no idea where my time is going lately. Obviously I now have a job which takes up some of my time but seriously, I find myself sleeping, eating and doing some kind of work... Where did the other time go? Having said that, I'm really enjoying everything I'm doing at the moment and I wouldn't really want to change any of it so I just need to find some more time from somewhere. Or can we add a new day to the week? Anyone with enough power in the world to do that? Get back to me if you know how to do this, thanks!

Currently I'm writing this blog post whilst having a break from sorting things for my mum's 50th which is coming up in less than a month now. I can't say what it is because she may be reading this (hi mum!). I have a lot of planning though... There's another thing I need my extra day in the week for.

This isn't the longest blog post and it's not all that interesting but I thought I'd give you a great update on my life.

Bye for now!