Sketching from “The Twelve”
The Belgian TV Series "The Twelve" is an interesting courtroom drama. The show is moody and dark and the actors are all interesting to look at. I took photos of the TV and then sketched from them....
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Did you know that Jeff Bezos could give $105,000 to every Amazon employee and he would still have just as much money as he has now, according to...
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Portrait Drawing Study – Raquel
Third attempt to get this twisty-necked lady right. Graphite on newsprint, 12×9″ I’m continuing to work with the Loomis Method, which is really helping me. As you can see below, I got a little closer...
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Moody Sketch of Ron McA from Sktchy
Ron McA from Sktchy, 11×8.5″, graphite I’m really happy with this sketch of Ron McA from Sktchy. I tried to just keep it simple and it worked. I like the mood and the pencil work. If you’d like to see...
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Sketching Someone’s Surprised Son
Tina Wayne’s Son from Sktchy, graphite, 14×11″ I loved the photo of this adorable young man looking surprised, with his big wide eyeballs and even his hair seeming to stand on end with shock. It was...
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Sketching Zel and How to Draw Glasses
Zel K from Sktchy, graphite on paper, 11×8.5″ I watched artist and teacher Mike Creighton draw Zel K. during Sktchy’s free Saturday morning YouTube stream last week and decided to draw him myself. You...
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Sketching H.P. Lovecraft: His Horror Stories No Match for 2020
HP Lovecraft #4 1/2 (corrected #4), graphite on paper, 11×8″ H. P. Lovecraft wrote supernatural horror fiction that expressed his view (and 2020’s) that humanity was an unimportant part of an uncaring...
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Happy New Year Flower Garland with Onlooker
Happy Flower Garland with Onlooker, graphite, colored pencil, 10×8″ When I saw the reference photo on Sktchy for this drawing, I loved the happy smile on this guy’s face and the perplexed expression...
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Yikes! Really, 2021?
Sketch of Eegan from Sktchy, graphite on paper, 11×8.5 inches And that’s about all I have to say about 2021 so far! Yikes! You can see the original photo reference on Sktchy here.
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Calm, Gentle Bette
Quick Sketch of Bette G. from Sktchy, graphite on Xerox paper, 11×8 inches I’m finding myself attracted to sketching people who radiate peace and kindness which is calming in the midst of all the...
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Fun Portrait Sketch of Pulcherie
Pulcherie, Graphite pencil on recycled printer paper, 11 x 8 inches. This portrait of Pulcherie was so fun to sketch! According to her Sktchy profile, she is a French artist living in China. You can...
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Cozy Sleepers on a Rainy Day
Cozy Sleepers on a Rainy Day, graphite on copy paper, 11×8.5″ I’m not quite as relaxed as these two but now that competent grown-ups are in charge of the USA again I feel like I can relax a bit and...
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Sketch of Zoey K.
Zoey K from Sktchy. Graphite on copy paper. 8 x 8 inches. My pencil drawing can’t do justice to her bright red hair (see her photo on Sktchy here) but I’m still limiting myself to pencil to improve my...
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Mx. Moon, Imaginary Society Lady
Mx. Moon from Sktchy, graphite on paper, 10×8″ Mx. Moon’s photo on Sktchy (here) led me to imagine I was drawing a distinguished, fine society lady from the 1800s or would it be 1900s? Or 1940s? I...
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Aleksandra Again and Again
Aleksandra Final Sketch, pencil, 10×8″ I worked on making a portrait of Aleksandra over and over for a couple of months (see the terrible work below). I finally surrendered and chose a different photo...
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Rainbow Hair and a Pretty Pointy Profile Pic
Ioana F from Sktchy, pencil and colored pencil, 10×8 inches I was inspired to sketch Ioana because of her brilliant hair color (see her photo on Sktchy here) and because a dear friend had to shave her...
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Trying Gouache Again
Gouache portrait, 10×8 inches on Arches CP Watercolor paper I’ve studied gouache before as in this post with color charts and several other times over the years. This month I’ve been participating in...
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A Beauty and a Gloomy Gouache
Olivia McRae in gouache, 10×8 inches I had so much fun with the painting above and was really happy how it turned out. I’m (slowly) working my way through the Sktchy “30 Faces in 30 Days” gouache and...
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Alexander’s Analogous Bathroom Selfie in Lavender
Alexander H from his bathroom selfie on Sktchy, 9×8″ on watercolor paper Analogous colors sit beside each other on the color wheel. For this gouache experiment with analogous colors, I chose Dioxazine...
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Complimentary: All the Colors in Just Two
América GS from Sktchy in just two colors, 10×8 inches on watercolor paper In the past when I experimented with limited palettes and color schemes I missed the point. I thought the idea was to compose...
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