Tag: marker drawing

Mr Bandit: Life through a Zoom screen

Mr Bandit

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.

May the fourth be with you: Happy Star Wars Day

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.

Scout/WonderWoman

This is Scout Penelope, everyone’s favourite child model on Sktchy. I drew this portrait for this weeks Old School Sktchy “childhood “ challenge because in my house childhood was all about dressing up. I made so many costumes for my daughter, who was constantly challenging me to turn her into a mermaid, a dinosaur hunter or Nancy Drew. And she grew up to be her own version of Wonder Woman, as I’ve no doubt Scout will do too.

I drew the portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers, Prismacolor coloured pencils and Posca pens.

Mal

So lovely to be able to get lost in a portrait right now. I enjoyed drawing the beautiful Mal from Sktchy hugely.

I drew Mal’s portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic. markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

Alexandra

I’m remote working from home due to the Covid-19 crisis but, rather having lots of time on my hands, I’ve been insanely busy. It’s been a real struggle to find just an hour to draw a portrait these past few days. But I eventually managed to draw Sktchy muse Alexandra in instalments.

I drew this portrait in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with a Unipin fineliner, Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

Majo

I’m so glad I have drawing, reading and gaming to distract me from Coronavirus. These three activities, along with the ridiculous amount of time I spend on social media, keep me busy. But drawing is, without a doubt, the most absorbing. I’m in a different place when I’m drawing, lost to the world, and I don’t really hear or notice anything that’s happening around me. I’m just focused on the face in front of me and what’s happening at the end of my brush, pen or pencil.

This is a portrait of Sktchy muse Majo drawn in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

North

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.

Melody’s Owl

This May I’m going to be part of an artists open house in the Brighton Fringe Festival. The open house is at the National Trust’s Saddlescombe Farm, and will raise funds for the Grow Project, a project which helps support people experiencing mental health problems by connecting them with nature.

The theme for the open house is “Spirit of Place” and I’ll be putting some prints of my more nature-themed portraits up for sale. I already have some portraits that I know I’ll be using but I also want to create some new work to make into cards and possibly postcards, so I’ll be making more nature-themed portraits over the next few weeks. This portrait of Melody’s owl is the first of these.

I drew the owl in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic markers, coloured pencils and a Uniball Signo gel pen.

Yasmin

I’m still adjusting to the paper in my new sketchbook. I always forget what a difference paper makes to my drawings and that it will take me a week or two to adjust to working in a new book. I’ve worked in a Midori Cotton before, but it was a while ago, so I’m definitely having to readjust to the slickness of the paper again. But this is always a fun process!

I drew Yasmin with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils in an A5 Midori Cotton sketchbook.

Jojo

This is Jojo. In her inspiration image she’s at the hairdressers but as I was drawing her she began to look more and more like a character in an anime version of Star Wars 😊

I drew Jojo in my Midori Cotton sketchbook with Copic Markers and coloured pencils.