For the next twelve weeks in my Drawing Faces class we’ll be looking at drawing faces through history. We started this week with this fresco from the Minoan Palace of Knossos, in Crete, Greece painted on plaster 3500 years ago (Ladies in blue fresco, Palace of Knossos, Greece 1600 – 1450 BCE: Wikimedia).
This was a fun draw! Cooper drawn with ballpoint pens and coloured pencils.
Hannah in watercolour and coloured pencil.
Jericho from the Museum by Sktchy app drawn on an iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
E from the Museum by Sktchy app in watercolour and coloured pencils.
Every time I finish a portrait I add it to a grid of 13 portraits- and each time I finish a 13 portrait grid I add it to a grid of 16 squares. I just completed my latest 16 square grid so here are my last 208 portraits.
Van drawn/painted with watercolour and coloured pencils.
To mask or not to mask? I used masking fluid (which I don’t often use) to block out the light areas for this painting but ended up with very hard paint edges that I really don’t like. I also got a bit lost with the hair. I paint so rarely these days that I feel like I’ve lost a lot of my skills. Guess that means I need to paint more.
Rhayane in watercolour and coloured pencil.
I like to know the names of people I draw, even though I’m usually drawing from a photo on the Sktchy app. This is usually fine because people mostly post selfies. But people do also post photos of friends and family and they don’t always add the person’s name in the caption. So in these cases I invent a name.
The inspiration photo for this portrait was posted by Laura and I’m guessing that this person is her partner (but I could be wrong). A way she didn’t note his name so I’ve invented the name Hugh for him. Say hello to the anonymous guy I’ve christened Hugh!
drawing faces 