kristenbruce

Narwhal Love

A couple of pages from my sketchbook. Have been drawing a lot of sea creatures recently for a project! 💦Narwhals are adorable 💕...

Mugged by a Monkey!

Another page from my travel sketchbook, here is a cheeky wee expletive from Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Ubud, Bali. Scroll down to see me be the victim of...

Art vs Artist

I decided to jump on the artvsartist bandwagon...So here's my mug next to some of my work 🐌 Life has been wild recently but I'm hoping to start posting more fr...

Did I mention I loved Bali?

A bamboo bridge in Bali. More travel sketchbook pages coming soon, I'm still processing all the inspiration 😅😍...

Travel Sketchbook: Balinese Temple

While in Ubud, we noticed that many statues were wrapped in black and white checked fabric, and even some trees were too. Curious, we did some research and foun...

Sketchbook Diaries: Otterly adorable

💦 Visited the otters at Loch Lomond a few days ago to do some research for a new project. Any excuse to spend hours watching cuties like this! ❤ They were such...

Travel Sketchbook: Spirits of Bali

Without a doubt my favourite place I've ever been... Bali really blew me away. One of my favourite sights was the beautiful statues, most of which have moss gro...

Travel Sketchbook: A Quiet Corner

A super quick gouache painting of a corner of a block printing workshop in Kutch, a region of Gujarat in India. I think there should be more purple buildings an...

Uni Diaries #1

(Enjoy this completely unrelated picture of me reflecting over the Mekong River in Phnom Penh..) Hello. This strand of my blog has come into existence to docume...

Setting time limits is so helpful!

I gave myself an hour to paint this lovely cow I met in India. Forcing myself to work quicker than I usually would is something I really need to do more often, ...

Another Netflix Binge...

In case you didn't work it out yet, sketching characters from shows is how I justify to myself the bingeing of said shows... This time it was Top of the Lake, w...

Some more bears!

I sketched these guys while visiting the incredible Natural History Museum in NYC. I have a huge fear of bears (somewhat irrational since I live in Scotland...)...

Sketchdates are the best!

My friend Nicola and I have started organising sketchdates for ourselves, where we will go out somewhere and sketch the day away. This is always such a fun day,...

Anyone else love Ozark?

I did a sketchdump recently while watching Ozark on Netflix. I've heard mixed feelings about the series from others, but I thought it was really great! I love s...

My first mural

A little look back at my first ever mural, which I painted in Pai, Thailand a few years ago. This was such an exciting thing for me and I felt so lucky to be in...

My first ever animation! - Natural History Museum Project

https://vimeo.com/218170609 For Uni I had to create a display and three promotional items for the Natural History Museum in London. I chose to create a display ...

STEEMIT STARS - All Talent Style Competition - Prize 50 SBD , 10 DAYS - Day #5 - The Registration Is In Progress

Steemit STARS - All talents competition is new and original global multidiscipline talents competition and unique entertainment opportunity for steemit communit...

Mr Bones

From a life drawing session at Science Lates at the Glasgow Science Centre. We did warmup sketches of a skeleton, and in this case the rule was not to look at t...

Drawing from life...kinda!

I took some inspiration from Aaron Blaise and spent an hour sketching from a live Alaska Bear Camera. These guys were so beautiful! 😍 Will definitely be doing ...

A lovely commission

My friend Frankie asked me to create a family portrait of her animals! This was so much fun to do! I really enjoyed the simplicity of using only black and grey ...