different ways to draw impalas - animal alphabet challenge - episode i

This week, I show you a few different ways to draw an impala. Using a sharpie marker pen and some mixed media paper, I start with a fairly careful depiction of the full impala, sketching in everything from antlers to feet and then use cross hatching and dots to add tone. Next I show you a loose gestural sketch of an impala head and neck and antlers, keeping things fluid and using only partial outline. The third technique, I show you how to quickly apply a simple tonal treatment to draw an impala at the water's edge. You can see two of the finished drawings here:
'On point' https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/impala-antelope-drawing-side-view-mike-jory.html
'Awaiting' https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/impala-with-antlers-head-drawing-gestural-antelope-mike-jory.html

The Sunday Art Show - Black cow paintings - Angus steer wip to finished painting

This week, I take a wip of a black angus steer on dartmoor that I created using liquitex acrylic paint marker pens. I block in the sky with marker and then switch to using Atelier interactive acrylic paint to create a finished angus cow painting. Also, this video includes a look at several other paintings that I've done over the years on similar subject matter.
See the finished painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/black-cow-painting-angus-steer-on-dartmoor-mike-jory.html
You can see the acrylic paint markers demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha8lazOwbXY
Materials used:
A2 Daler Rowney mixed media paper
Acrylic paint markers by Liquitex
Chroma Atelier interactive acrylics
Flat and round synthetic brushes
Water spray bottle

Ten minute heron sketch

This ten minute drawing of a heron in flight was created as episode H of the animal alphabet challenge.
See the finished drawing here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/heron-in-flight-drawing-mike-jory.html
Materials used: black sharpie marker pen and mixed media paper A4

The Sunday Art Show - En Plein Air Flower painting

This week, I create a mixed media painting inspired by the flowers in my garden. Working en plein air I draw and paint flowers and plants using Sharpie markers, inktense pencils, interference acrylics, interactive acrylics and acrylic paint marker pens on A2 mixed media paper. The finished painting is a stylised, vibrant depiction of roses, hydrangea and string of pearls plants. You can see the finished painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/summer-flowers-roses-hydrangea-lobelia-fuscia-mike-jory.html

Five minute gerbil drawing

A five minute drawing of a cute little gerbil with paw raised. Used a black sharpie pen and some A4 mixed media paper. This is episode G of the animal alphabet challenge.

The Sunday Art Show - impressionist sheep painting & en plein air sketches

This week, I start with several biro (ball-point) pen sketches of sheep, working en plein air on an A4 mixed media paper pad, I stand at the gate to a field on the outskirts of Exeter and draw the flock, several quick studies. Then, I head home and start working on a much larger (A1 mixed media paper) painting with a watercolour marker pen. I add to the initial drawing using washes of inktense pencils dilute with a clean wet brush. After the inktense is dry, I then use Atelier interactive acrylics to bring the painting of sheep in the Devon landscape to life, keeping things loose and gestural in an impressionism style.
See the finished painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/sheep-and-landscape-painting-with-dramatic-light-and-purple-sky-mike-jory.html and you can see on of the ball-point pen drawings of a sheep lying down here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/sheep-drawing-biro-sketch-en-plein-air-mike-jory.html

Five minute flamingo drawing - The animal alphabet challenge - episode F

This week's animal alphabet challenge is a five minute flamingo drawing using a sharpie marker pen and some mixed media paper (A4). In this episode, I also include a gallery of some other bird drawings that I've completed over the years. You can see the finished flamingo sketch here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/flamingo-black-and-white-drawing-illustration-mike-jory.html