I originally drew this as a bit of fun. It was a moment of unusual reaction and passion from England’s captain Joe Root. Reaching a trying century in an ODI series against India he managed to secure it and an England win off the last ball.
Keeping the drawing loose with focus on the movement and drama of the situation it is drawn totally in charcoal on lily white pastel paper.
The drawing is available to buy along with limited edition prints from my website here
My latest cricket drawing has a focus on the moment when the batsman knows he has clipped the ball, glancing behind in the hope that it goes to ground and not to hand.
The drawing started off with a preliminary sketch in my sketchbook. Here I’m just making a loose sketch in watercolour to see how it works and to see if it will make a good finished piece…
It had all the potential for the drama of the moment that I like to capture in my drawings so I went ahead and started a full drawing. For my cricket drawings I work on Canson Mi Teintes pearl grey paper (the smooth side). I take sheets of A3 and cut them down if I need to. Here are progress shots of the piece…..
If you notice the original finished drawing actually had a bowler on it too. I decided that the bowler brought nothing to the drama and I found his pose a distraction so erased him from the finished piece, working him into the background instead. The finished piece can be purchased along with prints from my website shop here
Or by clicking on the image below…
