Namu’s sketchbook p3
Belugas! Belugas belugas belugas!! This is where we come to the first pages of photo studies, and thus the end (albeit partial) to the general anatomical mayhem that usually dominates my sketches.
So, beluga studies. Coincidentally I also really, really love the narwhal sketch on the third page. That face is just just right. Sometimes that happens by accident and when you’re least expecting it - or even trying - and I think my fellow artists can attest to the annoyance of that phenomenon. Of course these things never happen when it actually matters and you’re working on, say, a high profile commission.
A few of these pages, including the last, were made while I was in Sweden - there comes the first of many moose (mooses? meese???) - the very last bit of 2014. All the Atlantic spotted dolphin studies on the rest of the page were actually preparatory work for my painting ‘Foreign Traditions’! Also, birds. Lots and lots of birds.