This is Maia from Sktchy. I had thought I might just draw this portrait with Copic markers but then I went too dark and blocky on the hair and I needed to use coloured pencils to break the colour up a bit, and then, of course, I couldn’t resist adding some pencil to the eyes and glasses too. But it’s mostly Copics 🙂
In case you hadn’t guessed, I’m now obsessed with these brushes and this technique I’m developing in Procreate. It works beautifully with this portrait of Sktchy inspiration Muxi – this is drawn from a contemporary photo but I love the traditional vibe this technique has created.
I’ve been working some more today with my new Procreate brush so I don’t forget how I used it and have also been developing my technique a little more. This is a portrait of Faulzy from Sktchy and I used a TextureTown and ballpoiinty brush in the Procreate app on my iPad Pro.
This is Raman from Sktchy. I drew him in my Life Noble Note Plain sketchbook with Bic 4 colour ballpoint pens.
This is Rhayane from Sktchy. I’ve been looking for a Procreate brush that I could combine with the ballpointy brush to cover large areas and I finally found one! The striped effect is created using a Texturetown brush and I love the effect it creates!
This is Emma from Sktchy. In the inspiration photo she has been crying and so I was trying to recreate her red tearful eyes and blotchy skin. I used watercolours and coloured pencils in a Fabriano Venezia sketchbook.
This is Julia from Sktchy. I was struck by how strange the proportions of her face looked in her Sktchy photo and I had fun capturing them in my portrait. I’m not suggesting she has a strangely proportioned face, merely that the camera did something weird when it took the photo, as cameras often do. I’m noticing that it’s these slightly “off” photos that attract my attention more and more – wondering if it’s a response to the endless stream of manufactured perfection we get fed by the media?
This is another page in my Screen Queens sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. It’s a portrait of Andréa Martel from the French drama Call My Agent, played by Camille Cottin, who is unquestionably my lockdown screen queen.
This is Megan from Sktchy drawn with a couple of Bic 4 colour ballpoint pens. I love how these 4 colour pens force me to work with a limited palette but I realised after I’d drawn this how lazy I’ve become with some of my lines. I’m happy enough with the face here but the hair is very lazy – I didn’t bother to define it in the early stages of the drawing and so it just became a mass of colour below the ear. I’m going to try to take more care with my drawing in future and work on improving this.
This is Mic from Sktchy, drawn on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app,
drawing faces 