Category: digital art

Anna – PPE Protest Poster

It seems that the best (only?) way I can process my emotions at the moment is through my art. My response to anxiety is to just keep drawing…. Anyway my husband is an NHS resuscitation practitioner (and has asthma) and so it should be no surprise that the lack of sufficient adequate personal protective equipment in the NHS to deal with the Covid-19 crisis is causing me some anxiety.

So my response today has been to turn a Sktchy inspiration photo I found of Anna in surgical scrubs into a protest poster. I made a number of protest poster style portraits a year or so ago so it was great to revisit this style for a day.

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

Christina

I’m feeling very anxious at the moment. Who isn’t, right? But I have a long history of mental illness and I’ve been trying really hard to ignore my rising anxiety these past few days but it’s refusing to be ignored. It’s waking me up,in the early hours and affecting me physiologically now. So I’m having to pay it some attention.

I’ve become very good at managing my day-to-day anxiety over the past few years but it’s obvious that those management techniques aren’t going to be enough in this new lockdown world, I have to adapt and find something more rigorous to help me through this. So I’ve started by simply admitting that, not only to myself but publicly, I think he way I know best, drawing. And I’m sharing this with #MadCovidDiaries, a project for people with mental health issues to share diaries of their experiences of the lockdown in the UK.

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

Lucrezia

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.

Elsa

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.

Lidyane

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.

Lucrezia

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.

Victoria

My husband had some surgery last weekend and today I’ve been sitting waiting with him at the hospital for the results of bloods and other tests which will hopefully mean all is well and he can come home. I’ve spent 2 hours of that waiting time drawing Sktchy muse Victoria on my iPad Pro. What did I do with my waiting time before I started drawing? I read, of course, but it was never as absorbing as drawing. Those 2 hours have flown by. I might even get another one drawn before the results turn up!

Elena

I haven’t used my Bardot Brushes for a while. I’ve become slightly obsessed with the Procreate wet acrylic brush and have used that for almost all my digital drawing recently but I decided to go back to my Bardot pencil box brushes for this portrait, and it was such a good decision – the cross hatch brush was perfect for those dandelions.

I drew Sktchy muse Elena on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.

Jessica

This is a portrait of Jessica, my contribution to this week’s Sktchy Block Portrait Party. I drew it on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.

Selfie

I don’t like selfies. I rarely take or share photos of myself and I don’t much like drawing or painting myself either. But this week’s Old School Sktchy theme is “Self-Portrait” so I’ve drawn my first one in around a year. This one is very realistic, maybe next time I’ll exaggerate and play around a little more.

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