Author: hareinthemoon

I love drawing things. These days I am rarely found without a pen, pencil or stylus in my hands. In my working life I spend a lot of time in meetings and classrooms, reading papers and strategies, so my home life provides a creative antidote to all that! I also have chronic pain, lots of it. I have scoliosis, fibromyalgia and CRPS, so my life is a balancing act, trying to balance work, which make me feel part of the real world, with pain, which is ever present, and art, which soothes my pain.

Tiffanie

Sktchy muse Tiffanie has the kind of face I love to draw. Perfect pale skin that reflects light beautifully. Straight hair – for so long hair was my nightmare to draw and I still find straight dark hair so soothing to draw because it’s so much more straightforward than any other kind. And well defined bone structure that’s easy for me to capture. I could happily draw her every day for the rest of my life.

I drew this portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with a Unipin fineliner, Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

John

This is Sktchy muse John. I drew the portrait in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with a grey Unipin fineliner, painted with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished it with Prismacolor coloured pencils.

Maria

I drew Sktchy muse Maria with ballpoint pens a little while ago. I was so unhappy with the portrait I produced that I promised to draw her again soon and today I’m keeping that promise. I’m much happier with this portrait so I’m glad I had another go at drawing her.

I drew this portrait of Maria on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.

Olivia

I drew Olivia in a Hannehmühle Nostalgie sketchbook with Polychromos coloured pencils. I’ve got a migraine today which might explain why my drawing is so crooked!

208 portraits

Every time I finish a portrait I add it to a 13 image grid and once I’ve filled that grid I add it to a 16 image grid. Many months later I have a completed grid containing my last 208 Sktchy portraits. Today I filled my latest 208 portrait grid. I love the snapshot view these give me of my portraits from the past 7 months.

Loke

Today’s Sktchy portrait is of Loke. I drew him in my Midori Cotton sketchbook using a grey a Unipin fineliner, Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

Alena

This is how all my Copic portraits start out. I draw a quick pencil portrait and then work over it with a fineliner before erasing the pencil. This time I liked my pencil sketch of Alena so much I decided to leave it as it is and not move on to pen and Copic markers.

I drew Alena with a Blackwing 602 pencil in a Midori Cotton sketchbook.

Madi

I painted Madi in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished the portrait with Prismacolor coloured pencils.

Jalynn

I thought I’d try something completely different for this portrait, which is my entry for this week’s Old School Sktchy weekly art extravaganza challenge on the theme “fairytale”.

I drew the portrait on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.

Ioana

At the moment my Copic markers are being very leaky. Every time I do a Copic portrait I seem to end up with a large pool of Copic ink on the page. Fortunately Midori sketchbook pages don’t feather ink very much, it just dries in a pool creating a watercolour-like effect which is accentuated by my recent switch from black to dark fineliner s for my linework. This is definitely the most watercolour like Copic portrait I’ve drawn so far. But it was all Copic markers in a Midori Cotton sketchbook with some coloured pencil over the top to finish it off.