More old sketches

Dug out a couple more old sketches.

I remember sitting at the kitchen table at my old house when I started this first one, which means it pre-dates March 2007 when I moved. Its drawn from a photo I took on a holiday with friends in Scotland in 2004 I think. Contrary to an earlier post my pencils aren't Derwent Studio's (oops), I checked and they are in fact Faber Castell Polychromos, which have a lovely soft feel, on 220gsm A2 (594mm x 420mm) Windsor & Newton heavyweight cartwridge paper.

The whole back-end of the squirrel is missing - can't squeeze enough into my A4 scanner (A4 is 1/4 the size of A2). I attempted to stitch a second scan onto this one to complete the squirrel, but the join is very clear to see, and i just can't summon the energy to wrestle The Gimp into blending the two images together nicely.

Red squirrel, colour pencil on A2, drawn from photo I took in Scotland in 2004.

The next one pre-date's the squirrel, but again was drawn at my old house, after my holiday in Mexico (where I took the picture its drawn from). That dates it somewhere between September 2002 and March 2007. My guess is 2004.

Again its Faber-Castell colour-pencil on Windsor & Newton A2, scanned by my A4 scanner so the legs (to the right of this section) and the tail (above this section) are cut off here.

Jaguar, colour pencil sketch, drawn from a photo I took in Mexico in 2002.