I drew most of this portrait of Evgenia in my class for this week’s Sketchbook Skool Spark programme. I didn’t have time to work on the hair during the class so I did that later and just focused on the face initially. I drew the portrait in my sketchbook and cleaned it up digitally on my iPad using the Procreate app.
I love drawing expressions and Irina’s is so perfect here!
It’s been a very difficult few days in my personal life and the best way for me to deal with that is to draw my way through it. I’m very grateful to Foroogh, my muse from the Museum by Sktchy app, for lending me for face today, which I drew on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
I always try to draw a Star Wars themed portrait for May 4th, which is Star Wars Day. Today I’ve taken my inspiration from a mini Chewbacca – I loved this little guy’s Chewie costume in a photo posted by Amber on the Museum by Sktchy app. He looked so excited to be dressed up in it.
Hope you like the portrait and have a happy Star Wars day. May the Fourth be with you!
A bank holiday in the UK always means time for some portrait drawing. This is Shannon from the Museum by Sktchy app drawn on my iPad Pro using the Procreate app.
I am still drawing but slowly, and also working on commissions, which necessarily take priority over my Sktchy draws. But it was definitely fun to take some time out to draw Taelor from the Museum by Sktchy app on my iPad Pro,
Today is International Womens Day and the best way I know to honour it is with my drawings of women. I’ve drawn thousands of women from the Museum by Sktchy app over the years since I started drawing portraits – these are just a few of them. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to them all and especially to Jordan Melnick, the creator of the app, and his team at Sktchy.
This is Julia from the Museum by Sktchy app. I drew her on my IPad Pro using the Procreate app and Lisa Bardot’s pencil box brushes.
If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll know that every so often I lose my drawing mojo, usually because I’m struggling with my chronic pain problems, and I have to find a way of boosting myself out of a drawing block. One of the ways I do that is by taking a drawing course in Skillshare or Domestika, which are very inexpensive online drawing schools.
This week I took a background illustration class using Photoshop on Domestika to try to get myself back into drawing. I don’t actually have Photoshop and have never used it but Procreate does much of the same things at a more basic level so I was able to follow the course and learn a lot from it. Of course I don’t draw backgrounds, I draw portraits, so I was keen to translate what I learned to my portrait drawing.
This is a portrait of Isabel from the Museum by Sktchy app drawn in Procreate on my iPad Pro using the new technique I learned on that course. I love how it turned out. I wasn’t sure it was going to turn out well at all – but suddenly about two-thirds of the way through I could see that it was beginning to look good. I’m hoping that my technique will improve with practice too.
I did another portrait! This is Naomi’s son, from the Museum by Sktchy app of course, and drawn on my iPad Pro using the TextureTown brushes that I love so much but haven’t used in a while.
drawing faces 