Phoebe

Yesterday i finished another commission of a beautiful German Shepherd called Phoebe. I loved every minute of this drawing and had great reference photos which meant i could enjoy putting in as much detail as possible.

Phoebe

Coloured Pencil on Fabriano

Watercolour Paper

I have another piece to start now which i will post once i have completed it and sent it off to the owner! I am looking forward to the next piece and it's another large size drawing so it should be a nice one to do.

Can't believe it's only a couple of weeks until Christmas now, seems like this year has flown by. I am looking forward to the break to hopefully complete some unfinished drawings and get some new ones started, and possibly play with some different mediums and try and expand my range of drawing tools! In the meantime, i have Christmas dinners with friends coming up and a trip to Olympia which i am really looking forward to as i haven't been for years, so it's going to be a busy couple of weeks in the lead up to my favourite holiday!

Smiley & Ruddles Finished

Here is the finished drawing of Smiley and Ruddles. I am pleased with how the turned out, especially as the photos i was given weren't amazing quality, and enjoyed the challenge of drawing the four subjects on one piece. I am awaiting for confirmation that the drawing is okay and then it will be ready for signing to finish it completely.

Smiley and Ruddles

12"x18" Coloured Pencil on

Fabriano Watercolour Paper

I have another commission lined up now which is of a German Shepherd called Phoebe. This is going to be another 12" x 18" portrait with a smaller whole body picture added into the piece. It's going to be for a birthday present for the lady's husband and i am very excited about this one. She is a gorgeous dog and the photos i have been given to draw from are amazing quality which means i can really go to town with the detail and get all of her personality in the drawing.

Hopefully will be starting this one this week. I am going away for a week from Saturday and i'm hoping to take the drawing with me to keep going to make the deadline, don't think i'll have any problems spending hours and hours drawing her. So will hopefully have my first update of the new piece very soon!

Latest Commission

It's been a while since i've been able to post on here as i have been busy finishing college for the year and end of year exams make for very little drawing time! However, college is over until January now so i am in full drawing mode and have a commission on the go currently which i am about half way through.

This latest piece is of two terriers that unfortunately are no longer with us. The piece is of a portrait of each with a smaller full body drawing of each including on the same drawing. It's quite large at 12" x 18" and to date is the largest i have done. It's definitely a challenging piece being two very 'hairy type' dogs but i am enjoying it so far. I am using coloured pencil again for this piece on Fabriano paper.

Work in Progress



I am going to start on the second dog this afternoon and hopefully aim to have the entire drawing finished by the end of the weekend. Unfortunately i am still scanner iliterate and so have not managed to take any decent close up's of the small drawing, but hopefully will be able to do this at a later stage when i have got the second small drawing done (and i finally work out how to use the scanner!). Will aim to post another update when i have made progress on the second portrait in the centre in a couple of days.

Update on Race Horses

It's been a while again since my last post as i have been busy with college stuff, exams and eventing my horse - all of which will be coming to an end at the end of October when college finishes and the eventing season is over. I will be sad to finish eventing until March next year, however this will give me lots of time to draw and hopefully finish up all of the items on my list of things waiting to be done! I still have a few exams coming up so will still be busy fitting in studying along with everything else as well as my drawings.

On a horse related note, me and Glider came 3rd at an Intro Championships at the weekend which was amazing and has really made my year! He was absolutely fanstastic and couldn't have gone better, so i am very proud of him and eager to get to our next event next week which is a Regional Final qualifier and i am hoping our luck will continue to that event with us too. Fingers crossed!

So i managed to get some more of the race horses drawing this week and have another update. It's not a huge update, but i am taking my time over this one as i am enjoying it. This progress shot is at about 12 hours of drawing with lots still to do. I am hoping to try and continue drawing each night this week when i have some spare time. So hopefully i will have more progress updates to come this week.

Work in Progress

Coloured Pencil

New Drawing

I have been somewhat off the radar here for a while, been very busy with the horse and finishing up college stuff before the year is over, so haven't been doing as much drawing as i would like! However, i have started another drawing of a couple of racehorses. This is a slightly new type of drawing for me as recently i have stuck mainly with portrait stuff, however i wanted a challenge and something a little different. So it's about an A4 sized piece done in coloured pencil. Only in the early stages at the moment and this picture shown is of about 8 hours worth of work. Unfortunately not a brilliant scan and so will try and get a better one on the next update, it looks much glossier and less grainy on paper.

Work in Progress

Coloured Pencil

I have also got another commission lined up which i will be starting on this weekend, currently waiting for some new paper to arrive and so i am going to get the drawing done and ready to transfer onto the more quality paper when it arrives. It's going to be a big portrait piece of two terriers head and shoulders with a smaller full body drawing for each on around 12 x 16 sized paper. Looking forward to this larger drawing and hopefully the paper will come early next week so i can get started.

Will hopefully be working on the racehorses over the weekend so will try and post another update early next week.

Womble Finished

Last night, i ended up getting back early from a very successful evening jumping with Glider so i got onto finishing my drawing of Womble. Really pleased with how it turned out and i think i am going to get this one framed for the wall at home, something i haven't done with any of my drawings yet, so that's pretty exciting to be hopefully see it in our house on display at some point.

Thought i would post a picture of the final scan here now before the weekend.

Womble

Coloured Pencil on Pastel Paper

Emma Bingham 2011

Update on Womble

I have been pretty busy lately with college, exams and the horse, so i haven't updated in a while. I have managed to do a bit more on my drawing of Womble although it's not finished yet. I am hoping after this weekend of college, i should have some more time to finish this one off and get my oil painting finished as well, which is still sitting on the easel waiting to be finished. I still haven't managed to get a picture of the latest stage of that one, however will try to get one this week to post.

So here is the latest stage of Womble. I am enjoying this drawing and considering it's my own pet (which i always think is really challenging as i always want them to be perfect!), i am actually quite happy with how it's turning out. I am really eager to get it finished now.

Womble

Work in Progress

The rest of this week is going to be pretty busy for me, taking Glider jumping tonight and XC schooling tomorrow early evening, then i am at college for 3 days over the weekend, so i probably wont find much time for drawing in all that. Although i might be able to squeeze a bit in on Thursday evening, fingers crossed! Hopefully be able to have a final update on this one by next week and hopefully another update on the oil painting.