Tag: SkillShare

Eva

I’ve been taking a new course on Skillshare – Chris Hong’s class on coloured pencil portraiture. This portrait of Eva from Sktchy is my first attempt at a portrait using some of what I learned from Chris’s method. I’m not someone who tries to copy other people’s techniques wholesale but I take some learning from them and incorporate it into my own methods. I enjoyed drawing this more than I usually enjoy using coloured pencils so I will probably try one or two more but I think I’m more likely to use Chris’s amazing colour lessons to inform my own process.

I drew this in a Hannehmühle Nostalgie sketchbook with Polychromos coloured pencils.

Abra

I took a Skillshare class last week on Metallic textures in Procreate with my favourite Skillshare teacher, Liz Kohler-Brown, and I managed to use the technique I learned on that class to draw the gold earrings and necklace in this portrait. I’m very proud of myself because this is quite a stretch from what we were doing in the class! And this is the beautiful Abra, who offered the perfect for experimenting with both this technique and more of Procreate’s great new updates brushes. I used the wet acrylic on her face and then several different drawing brushes on her hair and lips.

I drew Abra on my iPad Pro using a 2nd gen Apple Pencil and the Procreate app.