Darren Reynolds

Got into drawing flies in a big way this month and filled a few pages in the grid notebook (I found this Etherington brothers tutorial really useful, the proportions are trickier than you’d think).

I produced two sketchbooks using Affinity Publisher and scribbled some rough ideas for covers, layouts, etc. I didn’t end up using the cover ideas but I might do something for the next one. Ideally, I’d like to spend time drawing a new detailed cover illustration as opposed to just using existing art.

Finished off the wee yellow sketchbook with some late night sketches using black and white posca markers. I really like how they came out, the fly head especially looks great on the page.

I started a new A5 sketchbook and decided to just fill the first few pages quickly to break it in. The paper wrinkled really badly with the posca paint markers, makes scanning these a real pain.

Not much in the way of digital work this month apart from a few doodle/scrap pages in procreate.

Finally, couldn’t resist picking up this tiny guy on the weekly grocery shop, such an awesome wee fig.