It feels like a huge achievement to have managed to finish a single portrait this week. There are so many other things getting in the way of drawing, both real life things but also mental junk. So I’m very grateful to Dennis for inspiring me sufficiently that I was able to focus and finish this portrait over a couple of days.
I do love an unusual perspective, though I didn’t get it quite right in this portrait of Yates from the Museum by Sktchy app.
I had a bit of disaster just as I finished drawing this, spilling a glass of water over my sketchbook- it missed the portrait but messed up the corner of this page and quite a few unused pages in my sketchbook. My desk is so messy so it’s a lesson learned – I’ll keep it tidier for at least a week and then I’ll forget and lapse back into my usual messy habits.
This is Jess from the Museum by Sktchy app drawn on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
Drawing when I can at the moment. Took a couple of days drawing this portrait of Karina from the Museum by Sktchy app in snatched moments between work and everything else. Still searching for my drawing mojo but always happy to have actually completed a portrait.
My drawing mojo is so up and down at the moment for a whole host of reasons and most days I’m having to push really hard to get myself to sit down and do any drawing at all and, especially, to stick with it when it’s not going so well. This ballpoint pen drawing of Avonlea is a good example.
I am really fighting with myself when it comes to drawing hair – anyone who knows me well will knows that this is a familiar battleground. I really struggled in the past when I only drew with Copic markers working out how to draw hair. Eventually I found a way that worked well for me with markers but I still haven’t got there with ballpoint pens and watercolour. And so when I’m struggling I just want to give up.
I know, from past experience, that the struggle is usually a good sign. It generally means I’m getting close to a breakthrough, to making some real progress. But this time around it feels like I’ve been stuck in this hole for a long, long time and I’m getting weary of it so I’m hoping that breakthrough comes soon.
This was my Saturday meditation. Drawing that juicy pepper was so therapeutic. The muse is Alyona from the Museum by Sktchy app and I drew the portrait on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
This is Carmynn from the Museum by Sktchy app drawn on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
I was experimenting with producing something messier, a little less tidy and contained, with this portrait of Faeze made on my iPad Pro.
Drawing with a migraine at the moment which seems to have made David look a little sadder in this portrait than he does in the inspiration photo 🙂
I’m so over Inktober. Three days in and I’d had enough of monochrome making me miserable so I’m back to doing what I love – with colour and whatever medium I feel like using.
This is the beautiful Nazli from the Museum by Sktchy app, drawn on my IPad Pro using the Procreate app.
drawing faces 