There are some models I have drawn before but I didn’t know their names – Solly being one. Not a bad haul this week, I’ve scaled down the drawings as I think I was hurrying to try and get them done rather than doing good sketches, so the 5 minute sketches are in the A3 pad. Also I have a real problem storing all those large drawings! Going to have to have a throw out or maybe a giveaway? Anyway rather proud of these Woody Pencil drawings, even if the paper leaks through to the other side!
I especially like this drawing, it has good depth and motion:
Inktense drawings made up a lot of this session – variable but good in the ones above and below have an interesting ink/oil pastel/crayon thing going on, especially if you work them into already wet paper. It can be a struggle to get realistic skin tone (you’re constantly going ‘a little bit of A, a little bit of B, a lot of C’ mentally mixing them in your head but it takes time), hence the mad colours. I managed it with the watercolour sticks but that was an hour or so doing the hand painting, so it’s not something you can easily do in 20 minutes!
The best has to be the featured image, this piece using Montana/MTN pump fine-liner with Jackson’s ink and watercolour. Good skin tone, rather odd pose and the red/orange sheet she brought does make it seem like she’s just been murdered.
But odder the pose, the harder it is to pull off. In fact even here the blotchy spreading works, it doesn’t piss me off unlike other pictures. It’s like the Woody drawings, I like their spreading but it’s controllable. I’m finding with cotton paper, it really soaks up water and paint like a damp rag and then you can say goodbye to accuracy!
Or to be more, uhh, accurate, accuracy in the really short time we are given, because in the real world you could just let it dry and come back with other washes, build it up. But in 20 minutes it really is sort of slosh it on and hope… :-/
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