Sunday 23 September 2007

Dragonfly



I love dragonflies and recently saw lots of them on the peat marshes near my home. If they stayed still long enough I photographed them, but generally I just stood still and observed them. Seeing a head move from side to side or the body pulse , and trying to take in all the detail of the patterns and shapes and those amazing wings. This is drawn using Derwent crayons ,with lots of sharpening for the fine lines of the wings. I am really pleased with this drawing and I am working on the next one. It is on an A3 sheet of paper.

6 comments:

brian nelson said...

Nicely done! The wings are simply amazing. Dragonflies are a brilliant design!

Joanna said...
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Joanna said...

Dradonflies are wonderful things it seems this year was a very good year for them, or I was just lucky to see lots. Lovely drawing

Had to remove my last comment just noticed a spelling mistake, corrected it and posted again sorry

Lin said...

AWESOME!

annakarenin said...

We had some beautiful ones land on our pond and a really unusual Damsel fly as well it was practically black with opaque wings. Unfortunately Lily kept catching them and the Dragons for her kittens to play with. I think the blue green ones are my favourite.

andrea joseph's sketchblog said...

stunning. they are such beautiful creatues aren't they?