This is another portrait for my “Screen Queens” sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project 2021. It’s a portrait of O-Ren Ishii from the Kill Bill movie trilogy, played by Lucy Liu.
O-Ren Ishii
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Andrew
This is Andrew from Sktchy and, of course, I’ve been playing around with chiaroscuro again. This time I was using Copic markers and coloured pencils.
Nob
This is a portrait of Nob from Sktchy. The portrait was an experiment to see if the coloured pencil chiaroscuro method I learned last week would work with ballpoint pens. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
Mel
This is drawn on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app, from an inspiration photo posted by Melissa on Sktchy. I usually title my portraits with the name of the inspiration but I don’t know the name of the subject of Melissa’s photo so I’ve used the shortened non-gendered version of her name, Mel, as the title of the portrait and this post.
Kaitlin
I’ve been taking a course by artist Marco Mazzoni on the Domestika teaching platfom on drawing chiaroscuro portraits with coloured pencils. Chiaroscuro is a Italian term for a technique which uses strongly contrasting light and dark to create art.
This portrait of Kaitlin from Sktchy is the first one I’ve created using the technique I ’ve been learning in this course. I need a lot of practice but I’m pretty happy with this for a first attempt.
If you’re interested in finding out more about Marco Mazzoni’s course you can find information about it here.
Amelie
This is another page from my sketchbook for Brooklyn Art Library’s “The Sketchbook Project 2021”. I chose the theme “no erasing” because I wanted to use ballpoint pens throughout the sketchbook and the title of my book is “Screen Queens”. This queen is Amelie, played by Audrey Tautou.
Allie
I’m not sure quite how this portrait of Allie from Sktchy ended up like this! I was trying to be looser and freer with my drawing but the portrait ended up a bit too much of a caricature for my liking.
I drew Allie with Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils in a Midori cotton sketchbook.
Melek
I’m trying to be a lot quicker and looser in my drawing in the hoping of finding some motivation, inspiration, flow. I’m not sure if it’s working but I do like the look of this portrait of Melek so I’ll keep pushing in this direction and see what happens.
I drew this on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
Cece
Keeping on keeping on, hoping that I’ll find my flow again sooner rather than later. In the meantime this is Cece from Sktchy painted with watercolour and finished with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
Keiunna
I’m really struggling with my drawing at the moment so with this portrait I wasn’t aiming for anything in particular, just at getting something down on my iPad that felt OK to me. So I left this as soon as I thought I’d captured something rather than keep messing with it and potentially spoiling or overworking that. I would usually work for a lot longer refining the skin tones and adding details so this portrait of Keiunna from Sktchy feels quite raw but I like it.
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