Along the right lines

Drawing and sketching have always been vital forms of art to me. Most of my finished ink drawings and watercolour paintings derive from sketches completed on-site. If I feel a sketch is worthy of developing into a finished piece of artwork, I will re-draw it then add the ink and detail.

First and foremost, I always want to convey visually how I feel about a subject, and what inspired me to draw that scene. A well-drawn, simple sketch often says as much as a highly finished, complex drawing, and the images you will see over the following pages illustrate a variety of finishes to reinforce the importance of detail, or even the lack of it in some of the artwork.

In my mind, the quickly drawn images on Bristol board (below and page 52) stand up against the more detailed (page 55), while (page 54) falls somewhere between