Tag: mixed media

Sydney

This is Sydney from Sktchy. Crying is something that I find really hard to capture in a portrait. I think I’ve done a better job here than I usually do but I’m still not where I’d like to be. I need to practice, practice, practice.

Sheree

I’m part of the production & presentation team for a week long virtual conference this week & it has been crazy. I spent hours both supporting and presenting in live broadcasts yesterday but today I had a day off before heading back online tomorrow & Friday. So I took some time to wind down & draw. I chose this portrait of Sheree from Sktchy because it reminded me of my daughter, who would love her own katana.

Ava

This is Ava from Sktchy painted with Zecchi watercolours and finished with Polychromos coloured pencils.

Luke

This is Luke from Sktchy. Trying to focus while watching TV news coverage of the US election 24/7….

Julia

How I have missed my watercolours and coloured pencils during the past month of Inktober! This is Julia from Sktchy painted in my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook.

Kristie

I don’t know the name of this model but the inspiration photo was posted on Sktchy by Kristie. I used Sennelier watercolours and Polychromos coloured pencils in a Moleskine sketchbook.

Fary

This is Fary from Sktchy, drawn in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

RBG

I’m not an American but even here on the other side of the pond many of us, especially women, are deeply grateful for the life, work and inspiration of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the US Supreme Court Justice and feminist icon who died yesterday. I am certainly feeling her loss today and she was the only person I could possibly draw.

I painted this in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with Zecchi Toscana watercolours then warmed on it with Luminance coloured pencils. Then I scanned it in to my iPad Pro and worked on it some more in Procreate using Lisa Bardot’s Pencil Box brushes.

Hannah

This is Hannah, who’s photo was posted on Sktchy by photographer Andy. As you may know by now if you’re a regular visitor to this blog, I’m not a huge fan of drawing hair so I’m always happy to draw models with very short hair like Hannah here. And it makes it so much easier to focus on bone structure when there’s no hair getting in the way. Having said all that, I totally lost the likeness in this portrait, though I still like the way it turned out.

I drew this in a Midori cotton sketchbook with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.

Aleksandra

A short while ago I was posting this image on Sktchy and browsing my feed on the app. Over the past few months of lockdown Sktchy has been hosting a whole series of classes on digital portraiture, something I’ve been doing for years. Just all my artist friends are beginning to embrace the world of digital art, I find myself swimming once more against the stream and retreating from it back towards traditional media.

It’s not that I’m not interested any more in digital art, but I’m more interested in how I can apply the skills it has taught me to my use of watercolour and coloured pencils and pens – I see these skills as so interchangeable and inseparable. But I do sometimes feel as though I’m always destined to be in a very different place to most everyone else when it comes to art making. Do other artists who didn’t get here by traditional routes, who didn’t go to art school, feel the same way?

I painted portrait of Aleksandra with Sennelier watercolours in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook and then worked over it with Polychromos and Prismacolor coloured pencils.