Still going strong with the online sessions, I think I’ve got this quick-drawing-cos-I’m-usually-late thing down pat with the Sailor fude fountain pen. First up is the second life drawing session with pictures of the amazing Daisy, a model I have featured here many times as a regular at Cass. I didn’t finish this session but still have the images, so part of the delay posting these is I was planning to revisit this session – but I don’t know when. I want to do it justice, part of the reason for stopping halfway was because I felt my mind wasn’t on it due to other things.
Love the pole one, a good example of using the Hero 234 ink that just arrived from China also as wash – it’s very smooth. But the other one went kind of wrong – I think the problem with using fountain pen inks purely for washes is they are too liquid and too strong. They are very binary, hard to get gradients. I have just done the third life-drawing session which is still drying, and that became obvious when I switched back to the old Jackson’s Indian ink. Far better and easier to work with.
With the third online portrait session, as always I get the watercolour ready but never use it! I loved this photo of an African man, so I at least used my various coloured fountain pens to bring some colour in – Diamine Registrar’s ink and R&K Scabiosa. I got the proportions around the ear wron though – I did realise this at the time but then of course, I can’t change it as it’s ink.
I also struggled with this drawing of an Asian lady, I did it twice but actually I prefer the first one.
Star of the show has to be this quick 10-15 minute Sailor pen sketch of an elderly lady…I think I caught her character. I like drawing older faces, they have more interesting shapes and history to their faces…paradoxically the stereotypical ‘perfect young people’ of fashion, advertising and sometimes portrait/life models are quite hard to make look real.
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