31 Day Drawing Challenge JUL 2015 - Make an Urban Sketch!

You can find us doing a bit of Urban Sketching down on Sea Road, Galway today with Urban Sketchers Galway for Drawing Galway 10. That's to be found here:



- basically if you can see the Crane Bar, you should be able to find us.

There were quite a few brave souls out, even with the weather a bit changeable, but I didn't photograph everyone's pieces. I'll update here with more bits as people send them to me!

Here's the bits and pieces from our Crane Bar sketches:

Josephine Boland -



Donal Fallon -



Jay Penn -



Michelle Gunning -



And one of the "local characters" insisted on giving me his rendition of the Crane Bar in my sketchbook. He signed it in the bottom right, so if you can make out his name I'll tag it as well.



And here's Urban Sketching from other locations:

Gordon MacKay -



Barbara Vulso -



James Newell - was there virtually



Brian Cunningham -



Brianán McMahon -



Nico -



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You can find us on Monday the 3rd of August in McSwiggans for the next Galway Pub Scrawl #141 - Attack of the magic nipples and Sunday the 26th in the Secret Garden for the next Secret Sunday Scrawl - #012: Don't leave home without your Lipstick!! Whew! There's always a drawing session within sight with us.

If you like our works, you might give us a +1 with your Google+ account on this here post, or RT our twitter account, or join us on Facebook and "like" our public page!

Admin Monday 07 APR 2014

Another round of links and updates from your friends at Galway Pub Scrawl!

Updates:

Our new Galway collective is on the move! Urban Sketchers Galway is our new endeavour, to bring us out to draw the town and anything else we find interesting. Follow us over there on the blog or on the new Facebook group. Our next sketch meet-up will be at the end of April at the Docks, Galway.

The application process for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year is now open, until May 1st. If you're interested, apply now - you need to fill in the form on the site and provide a self-portrait.

Links:

Rafael Grampá teamed up with Absolut and Facebook to make a sort of "crowd-sourced" plot for an animation short - it's a mix of 2-D and 3-D work and it's pretty stunning.

Dark Noir from Gillian Glendinning on Vimeo.

Anita linked us to Renae De Liz' Peter Pan project, a graphic novel coming out soon. You can check out a load of preview pages at the website.

Muddy Colors featured a process video of Rebecca Guay's "The Visitor", which is going to be the cover of Spectrum 21! Very nice.



Patrick linked us to an article about patterns being drawn on a potter's wheel. Don't let Mikhail Sadovnikov's hypnotic art entrance you... too much.



Helen linked us to two awfully cute Facebook groups - They Draw and Cook & They Draw and Travel. Really worth checking out.

And you HAVE to check out the finalists at the Portrait Society of America's annual contest. Beautiful.

This is an AMAZING tool for idea generation - Dogbomber's "Lady Knight" generator on Tumblr. Hit "Print Screen" and paste into your favourite image editor to get your random selection!

This tumblr, Movies in Color, makes up breakdowns of movie stills into their palettes - great work being done there.

Illustrators Ireland had a raffle for these pieces - congrats to those who won them, they're wonderful.

Buzzfeed provided a list of 20 animated GIF artists you have to follow - and you really do!

Helen linked to this cool feature, 10 questions for Jamie Hewlett on Phaidon.

We love you all, and are looking forward to seeing you in McSwiggans, Galway for our next Galway Pub Scrawl - #108 Galway Plague Scrawl.

Admin Monday 24th MAR 2014

WOAH! There has been an awful lot of excitement in Pub Scrawl towers recently. You can find some of what we've been up to on the Facebook page and over on the new Urban Sketchers Galway blog. Join up with the new Urban Sketchers Galway group there or on their Facebook page!

Updates:

Mary made us some new banners! You've probably noticed how slick the top of page is looking -



Please give us a +1 on Google and share us with your friends to help show off our new image!

Dr. Sketchy's Galway will be having their next event on the 5th in Kelly's and their next one confirmed for the 10th of May in Monroe's Live! Buy your tickets as soon as they become available!

Drink and Draw Sligo are talking about having an event soon! Go check their Facebook page and keep your diaries open between the 7th - 10th of April if you're in the Sligo neighbourhood. ;)

Links:

Helen linked an article on the amazing skills of Daniel Van Der Noon and the intricate cityscapes he draws.

There's a full upload of the Wyeth's World documentary by Michael Palin - essential watching.


David Gray put up an awesome tutorial video on transferring your drawing to you final support for painting using the Oil Transfer method -



All the human skin tones are being matched to their pantone colours over on the ongoing project, the Humanae Tumblr.

Brian Cunningham from Drink and Draw Sligo sent us a link to this great video of Stan Lee giving advice to young creators, talking about his creative process, etc.

I've become a little addicted to sketchbook walkthrough videos on Youtube since I posted the amazing Scott Robertson/Darren Quach sketchbook walkthrough last fortnight. This one from Jake Parker is outstanding -



We had a bit of a confab over on the Facebook page about good Art podcasts - if you know some more, tell us in the comments or join us there with some more good links!

Here's the few we talked about:
Suggested Donation
Dirty Sponge
Make it, then tell everybody
& Sidebar Nation

The Flooby Nooby blog had some tips on drawing and character design from Robert Cory - done in charming cartoons and illustrations! You should go check it out.

You can find some cool images in this exhibition catalog - Heroes, Villains, Myths, Legends at the Rehs Contemporary Gallery. It's a nice mix of Fantasy/Realism/Contemporary pictures.

Keep coming back to check out the blog or come join us on the 31st in McSwiggans for the next Galway Pub Scrawl!