Above is the other sketch I did while sitting on the shoreline of the Jurassic Coast. It was done with water soluble graphite and drawing pencils in red and ochre. It reminds me of some oriental pieces I have seen done with brushed ink.

At home I would have popped the sketchbook down on a flatbed scanner but even that leaves an unpleasant shadow down the centre line. Trying to photograph the whole piece on my iPad is impossible. Even if you managed to work out a way to hold the book open and press the shutter button, you would have fingers showing on the result.

For these sketches, I had a brainwave and I photographed each page separately, stitching them back together at the post processing stage. It worked… reasonably well. Single pages on either side of the book leaf can be persuaded to fit reasonably flat and rotated for good lighting, although you can see I didn’t get that perfect. As square pages, it is in theory reasonably easy to also correct the perspective issues if the camera wasn’t held perfectly level. However, you can see here that I didn’t manage to get the left and right to line up perfectly.

The sketch I shared yesterday was actually put together after I did this one and you can see I managed to improve. More work needed but I’m getting somewhere with it.