Tag: drawing faces

Mahoo

I had a lot of fun with this portrait of Mahoo from Museum by Sktchy winking. I drew him with my Bic 4-colour ballpoint pens in a Life Noble Note Plain notebook.

Wendy

This is one of those portraits where I lost the likeness completely but I nevertheless had fun with the process. I’ve drawn Wendy from Museum by Sktchy several times before too, and have never struggled to capture her likeness before – maybe it was the slightly upward looking angle that confounded me?

Vincent

Every week Sketchbook Skool founder Danny Gregory House Draw With Me session on YouTube. Anyone can attend and draw along with Danny. Each session has a different theme and after the session people post their drawings on social media (although this isn’t obligatory).

During this week’s s Draw With Me session we drew a 19-year-old Vincent van Gogh. I did a simple sketch in ballpoint pen. But many other people did wonderfully colourful drawings in true Van Gogh style and when I saw them posted online I decided I had to have a go. So I uploaded my sketch to my iPad and started playing around in Procreate with a TrueGrit TextureTown brush and the Liquefy function. This is what I ended up with. I love it.

You can see my process on YouTube here. If you’d like to watch a previous or attend a future Draw With Me session ( they’re absolutely free and open to anyone worldwide) you’ll find them here – make sure you subscribe if you want to receive a reminder of future sessions.

Letitia

A little bit of ballpoint pen action for this drawing of Letitia from Museum by Sktchy.

Faeze

This was so much fun to draw! I want to focus on drawing hands in a future Spark class so I was looking at inspiration photos with hands. This one caught my eye – too hard for a first class on drawing hands but fun for me to draw. The muse is Faeze from the Museum by Sktchy app.

Devon

I drew this portrait of Devon while teaching Spark classes for Sketchbook Skool. It ended up very wonky but that’s OK – it was a valuable lesson in how to keep going even when you really aren’t happy with your line drawing. And the final portrait turned out fine.

Irina

This is Irina from Museum by Sktchy drawn on an iPad Pro using the Procreate app.

Fary

I love how portraits go through an ugly phase before resolving themselves. There’s always a point when I’m drawing when I wonder if the portrait is going to be a complete disaster or if it is going to work out OK and I have no idea what the answer will be. All I can do is keep working and hope that I will find a way to make it work. Ninety per cent of the time I do, but to be honest it doesn’t really matter. Obviously it’s great to have a portrait I like at the end of the process, but it’s the process that matters, working on my drawing to try to get past the ugly stage to make it less ugly, to resolve it and make something that feels at least partly complete.

This portrait of Fary was especially difficult and was very ugly about half way through. I left it and came back to it a couple of days later, worked on it for another hour and resolved it. It doesn’t have much of a likeness but it’s not ugly any more and I’m very happy with it.

Bear

This was drawn on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app from a photo posted on the Museum by Sktchy app by Jezzi Bear.

Ulyana

This is Ulyana from the Museum by Sktchy app. I drew her on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app. You can see a Procreate timelapse video of my drawing process on YouTube here.