Cody is one of my favourite Sktchy muses. He has a great face to draw and his photos are so interesting. This isn’t my best work, not having the best week pain-wise, but I do think it captures Cody’s personality very well, and I love that about it.
I drew Cody in my Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I retreated to my comfort zone for a couple of hours to draw today’s Sktchy muse Delphine, because I could and I wanted to. This was drawn with Copic markers in a Midori cotton sketchbook.
This is Sktchy muse Ali. I’m generally pretty good at capturing a likeness these days but every so often I’ll have a run of missing it every day for a week or more. I’m having one of those runs right now. I’ve missed Ali’s likeness completely in this portrait. My last several portraits haven’t been so far off, but they haven’t been quite there either.
I don’t worry when I miss the likeness. The process of drawing is more important to me than the outcome. But I do think about what it says about me and what’s happening with my drawing at the time. Often it can mean that I’m not as focused as perhaps I should be, or I’m rushing my portraits because I don’t have as much time to work on them as I would like, or it can be a sign of personal stress.
Sometimes, it’s a sign of progress. It’s what I think of as the “one step forwards, two steps back” progress that comes with creative development, that means it feels like your work is getting much worse just before you make a breakthrough and step up a level. That might sound a little nonsensical but I hope some other artists recognise it. I’ve come to understand that that’s how my work progresses.
Right now I’m quite stressed so I think this loss of likeness is probably down to stress and a lack of focus but there’s a little bit of me that’s hoping I’m about to make an unexpected creative breakthrough. 🙂
I drew Ali in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I’ve been trying to access NHS talking therapy during the lockdown and it’s such hard work trying to navigate a system that makes no sense and I’m getting nowhere. The only other way I have of processing my emotions is to draw them out.
I drew Juliana in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
This is Sktchy muse Holly. I drew her in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I drew Saghar’s portrait with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils in a Midori cotton sketchbook.
Drawn in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers.
This is a portrait of one of my Sktchy artist heroes Mr Bandit. It captures my life so perfectly right now, since I mostly live it through a Zoom screen. I spend several hours each day remote working, having virtual coffees (with colleagues, family and/or friends) and participating in online classes. And then I spend an hour or two drawing and playing Animal Crossing on my Switch (yes, another screen) to keep me off Twitter.
I drew Mr Bandit in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
Today is one of my favourite days of the year – even lockdown isn’t going to burst my Star Wars bubble and stop me drawing my annual May the Fourth Star Wars portrait. This awesome Yoda cosplay portrait is inspired by a photo posted by Beth on Sktchy.
I drew this in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers.
I drew this in a Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
drawing faces 