Sketching from the imagination
Sketch using Procreate on an iPad. 24th October 2025
One of the great things about iPads and tablets in general is that you can just do a drawing at any time, anywhere. Sketchbooks are pretty good for that too, but things get complicated if you want to use colour.
This is a sketch I drew idly, with nothing specific in mind. Obviously it contains a number of themes and tropes that recur in my work; in fact now that I look at it it’s nothing but themes and tropes.
These tropes include the way that the subject of the sketch is floating just above the ground and the fact that the subject is in the form of what may be a hollow container such as a seed pod or a hollow exoskeleton from which a head and limbs emerge. Here the limbs are clutching a spherical object of indeterminate origin.
It’s all quite self-consciously bizarre.