LOST

This is a charcoal foot drawing I have done of a little girl lost. I painted it, again with my feet, with watercolours.

DOCTOR WHO and the ZYGONS

I did the hard part of this painting some years back, the hard part being the hand painting of William Hartnell and the two monsters. Not being so good at this sort of thing I had to cover up a load of mistakes with spacey stuff which I rendered digitally. I find this sort of thing quite enjoyable to do but at the same time it's incredibly frustrating if, like me, painting this sort of picture isn't your thing.

A THIRD INKY LANDSCAPE

If I was brighter I'd come up with names for these landscapes but I'm ever so dull and can't come up with anything. Still, they're quite quick to do and are quite interesting for their small size. They also provide a welcome change from illustrating children's books- not that I'm complaining about my job, I love it- it's just a little change from time to time is very refreshing.

My children's book website can be found here and my children's book blog can be found here.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE...

...and have a peaceful New Year x

1 of 20 LITTLE LANDSCAPES

This is the first of a little ink landscape that will be sold for 50p/£1 at my daughter's school's Christmas fair. I've been volunteered to draw 100 pictures for the first week of December so part of what I'll do will be these landscape types and the remainder will be along the lines of my children's drawings. The money raised will go to charity so I can't even complain about the workload.

AFRICAN ELEPHANT INK SKETCH

Here I've drawn a quick sketch of an African elephant walking through shallow water in ink. When drawing living things I try and keep the sketch lively by rendering the marks quickly and without too much fuss. Of course with animals, being able to draw rapidly is often an essential requirement.

Ok, just a reminder that more of my work can be found on my website leightonnoyes.com. The work on this site is mainly my childeren's book work so please pop by and say hello.

QUICK INKY LANDSCAPE

Whilst messing around with ink late last night I happened to make this atmospheric drawing almost completely by accident. It's only a very small drawing (no more than four inches across) which I've decided looks too much like a landscape for me not to call it a landscape. It's ambiguous as to what it actually depicts but I think there are trees and water in there along with a silhouetted figure in the foreground.

I hope this demonstrates how effective just spending a couple of minutes pushing ink around on a piece of scrap paper can be.