More practice with ballpoint pens for this portrait of Sktchy muse Rim. The most difficult part of ballpoint pen drawing for me right now is figuring out when to stop. I have a tendency to keep going and overwork my portraits but I think they look better underworked. I don’t know if I left this at the right point but I think I was in danger of messing it up if I kept going so I stopped.
I drew Rim in an A5 Moleskine sketchbook with 3 Bic multicolour ballpoint pens.
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!
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.
This portrait of an aspiring Harry Potter was a case of “more haste, less speed”. It’s my entry for this week’s Old School Sktchy weekly challenge which has the theme “Harry Potter” and I ended up trying to fit it in between dog walks and hospital visits (my husband is in hospital this week). The result was that I feel that I rushed every stage of it and nothing quite worked. Lesson learned.
I painted this portrait in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished it with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I’m always intrigued by how a portrait can end up both looking like someone yet being “not quite them” , even though I’ve measured the features and represented them reasonably accurately. This is many respects a good likeness of Sktchy muse Jean-Pierre, but his face is a little too wide and not quite long enough and so everything’s just a little off. I don’t mind these inaccuracies at all – I don’t aim for photorealism and these quirks in my portraits are what create my style.
I painted this portrait in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished it with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
More ballpoint practice with this portrait of Sktchy muse Joseph in my tiny Moleskine sketchbook using a range of Bic multicolour ballpoints.
This is a drawing from Sktchy muse North’s collection of photos. It’s a portrait of a child and, as usual, I’ve made her look years older than she looks in the photo. I think it’s because I’ve elongated her face – something I have a tendency to do a lot of the time. but I love how the hair and eyes turned out so it’s not all bad.
I drew the portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
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.
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.
Today’s painting is, as usual, inspired by Sktchy, but it’s not a face but some eucalyptus leaves, drawn from a photo uploaded by Sktchy artist Jennifer Linderman. I was attracted by the wonderful range of colours in the three leaves; I had a ball mixing up those hues!
I painted the leaves in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished then with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
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