This is Luis from Sktchy drawn with Bic 4 colour ballpoint pens. I made a mess of his hair – a series of poor decisions about how I was going to tackle it… But I like how a lot of the face shading worked out. I’m getting better at representing the different planes of the face with just vertical lines and it worked well with this expression.
This is Irina from Sktchy. I love sketching with rainbow pencils in my sketchbook so I had a go at making a rainbow pencil brush for Procreate loosely based on my beloved Blackwing Pencil brush. Once id made the brush I tried it out on this portrait. I had to play around and modify it a little bit to get the sensitivity and colour change right but I’m pretty happy with it now.
This is Doug from Sktchy drawn on my iPad Pro.
I totally lost the likeness in this portrait of Sveta. I’m also guessing at her name – this is a shortened version of her username on Sktchy, Her actual name is in Cyrillic characters! It looks beautiful but I can’t hope to reproduce it correctly here.
This is Anna from Sktchy, drawn on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
This was fun! Digital drawing can be very liberating because the ability to work in layers makes it so much easier to correct mistakes and experiment with new different approaches and ideas. And I think that often shows in my digital portraits, like this one of Juli which I finished very quickly and deliberately decided not to spend too much time tidying it up because I didn’t to lose that sense of freshness.
I decided it was time to another portrait of my daughter Daisy. I was deliberately experimenting with a flatter more illustrative style with this portrait- and working with a colour palette and elements that I know she likes. But I can think when I look at it is that the mouth is not quite right 😂
This Laure from Sktchy drawn on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
This is Nazli from Sktchy. I was playing with texture in Procreate for this portrait, using Lisa Bardot’s fabulous Pencil Box brushes.
It’s been a very busy week at with little time for drawing so this portrait of Yuka from Sktchy drawn in Procreate on my iPad Pro is all I’ve managed to finish.
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