We're not artists, but we like to draw. It kills a lot of time, especially in virus-crisis lockdown. Join us in this blog as we put out bits of amateurish sketchbook art. One of us draws mostly portraits and figures, the other is big on animals and plant life. You'll soon find out who is who.
Brush pens in a rush
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Here's a lady with lots of buttons. Having only two blues in the set of brush pens, I thought I'd try and use grey as a blue, also. But it doesn't work. Got all the proportions right, though.
If you're following these posts, you'll have begun to notice the ladder of horizontal lines going down each piece. I have always eyeballed my drawings - done them directly from pictures, even with the pen. While this is sufficient most of the time, the delicacy of a portrait means that finding a likeness to the subject is a matter of a millimeter or two. So I use the pencil ladders as a measuring technique. And it works.
Here are a couple. When you get one of these small packs of felt-tips, and you're mainly doing portraits, you easily work through the more obvious skin colours, such as the maroon-orange-yellow of the second picture here. So, and you've seen this elsewhere as well as in the first picture, I've started monochromes with colours like blue and green. Now, when I decide to start with landscapes, I'll find that the greens are all gone...
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