I’ve drawn Lykke before and I’m sure I’ll draw her again – she’s one of maybe two dozen Sktchy muses who have everything I want in a model and who post new inspiration photos regularly. I love the contrast between the blue hair and the light and shadows in the inspiration photo and worked on reflecting that in my portrait.
I drew this portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
This is a portrait of Sktchy muse Lucrezia for Sktchy’s Dark Portrait Party. I drew it on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
Oh my, I struggled with the hair on Anna’s portrait . This was my second inked version of the portrait- the first one I experimented with a brush pen on thee hair using heavier inked lines but hated the result so much I drew the whole portrait all over again. But I still didn’t get the hair right. I don’t like it at all. But tomorrow is another day and I’ll draw another portrait.
I drew Anna in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with a Unipin fineliner, painted her with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished the portrait with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
So lovely to be able to get lost in a portrait right now. I enjoyed drawing the beautiful Mal from Sktchy hugely.
I drew Mal’s portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic. markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I’m using my social isolation time to catch up on some Sktchy classes I bought a while ago but haven’t had the time to follow yet. Today I watched the first part of Patrick Hochstenbach’s class Draw Like a Comic Artist. I love the idea, learned from it, that less is more and that even my fairly minimal linework is probably still too much. So I was trying in this portrait to reduce it to an absolute minimum.
I drew Elsa on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
I’m not feeling well today, a horrible fibromyalgia flare probably caused by the stress of the current situation. So a quickish Procreate portrait was the best I could do.
I’ve been finding it so hard to focus on drawing this week as, in Britain, we move, at a snail’s pace, towards a coronavirus lockdown. But today, finally, I found a little bit of focus as I drew the beautiful Summer for this weekend’s Sktchy Calm Portrait challenge. It was lovely to forget the world for a couple of hours and just paint.
I drew this portrait in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with a Unipin fineliner, painted it with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished it with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I’m remote working from home due to the Covid-19 crisis but, rather having lots of time on my hands, I’ve been insanely busy. It’s been a real struggle to find just an hour to draw a portrait these past few days. But I eventually managed to draw Sktchy muse Alexandra in instalments.
I drew this portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with a Unipin fineliner, Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I don’t often include backgrounds in my portraits but I have to confess it was the cacti in the inspiration photo for this portrait that attracted my attention and the reason I decided to draw it. And it was great fun to draw, especially the cacti!
I drew Lucrezia on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
Sktchy muse Sid has the most amazing face. I scarcely lifted my pen from the paper when drawing this portrait, it came so readily. I usually start my portraits with the eyes but I started this one with nose because Sid’s nose is so commanding I really had to begin there, and it was a good decision. Everything else made sense once I had the nose down.
I draw Sid with a Unipin fineliner in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook, painted him with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished the portrait with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
drawing faces 