I drew Sktchy muse Maria with ballpoint pens a little while ago. I was so unhappy with the portrait I produced that I promised to draw her again soon and today I’m keeping that promise. I’m much happier with this portrait so I’m glad I had another go at drawing her.
I drew this portrait of Maria on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
I drew Olivia in a HannehmĂĽhle Nostalgie sketchbook with Polychromos coloured pencils. I’ve got a migraine today which might explain why my drawing is so crooked!
Every time I finish a portrait I add it to a 13 image grid and once I’ve filled that grid I add it to a 16 image grid. Many months later I have a completed grid containing my last 208 Sktchy portraits. Today I filled my latest 208 portrait grid. I love the snapshot view these give me of my portraits from the past 7 months.
Today’s Sktchy portrait is of Loke. I drew him in my Midori Cotton sketchbook using a grey a Unipin fineliner, Copic markers and Prismacolor coloured pencils.
This is how all my Copic portraits start out. I draw a quick pencil portrait and then work over it with a fineliner before erasing the pencil. This time I liked my pencil sketch of Alena so much I decided to leave it as it is and not move on to pen and Copic markers.
I drew Alena with a Blackwing 602 pencil in a Midori Cotton sketchbook.
I painted Madi in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook with Zecchi Toscana watercolours and finished the portrait with Prismacolor coloured pencils.
I thought I’d try something completely different for this portrait, which is my entry for this week’s Old School Sktchy weekly art extravaganza challenge on the theme “fairytale”.
I drew the portrait on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
At the moment my Copic markers are being very leaky. Every time I do a Copic portrait I seem to end up with a large pool of Copic ink on the page. Fortunately Midori sketchbook pages don’t feather ink very much, it just dries in a pool creating a watercolour-like effect which is accentuated by my recent switch from black to dark fineliner s for my linework. This is definitely the most watercolour like Copic portrait I’ve drawn so far. But it was all Copic markers in a Midori Cotton sketchbook with some coloured pencil over the top to finish it off.
Still struggling to really feel comfortable with ballpoint pens. There were times when I was drawing this whe I was getting a light touch and then I just lost it completely again. I’m hoping that eventually, with more and more practice, I’ll get there and it will begin to come naturally.
I drew Nande in a Moleskine sketchbook with Bic Cristal ballpoint pens.
This was so much fun to draw. I used to hate drawing hair, I was always overwhelmed by it, and curly hair still sometimes terrifies me but Andrea’s hair was fabulous to draw.
I drew this portrait on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Procreate app.
drawing faces 