Tag: felt tip pen

  • Life Drawing #11 – Ash

    Life Drawing #11 – Ash

    This week I arrived and there was a ladder – it was all about props! Something very siren-like or even Charon about the ones with the long pole…I tried to go for a Ancient Greek feel with the coloured pencil, not worrying too much about accuracy, more about expression and mood and a more naive/primal…

  • Life drawing #8 – Hugh

    Life drawing #8 – Hugh

    And finally after weeks and weeks of female models – a bloke! And an older man at that, Hugh who’s apparently an RA (there’s a lot of artists who also model, interestingly). I think the charcoal works best here, and the pen and ink, and the felt tip pen one. I remember I turned up…

  • Life drawing #7

    Life drawing #7

    After the previous week’s triumph, the next week was less successful…I had a cold, felt feverish. The model was interesting though, very thin, Egon Schiele type. She didn’t like my drawings though, and I can’t blame her. The pastel of her back was good, focusing purely on tone and not marks – a failed version…

  • First life drawing in 26 years!

    First life drawing in 26 years!

    I stopped life drawing during my art degree around 25-27 years ago. I felt that digital work would be more important in the future and that ‘dead tree’ media would disappear. How wrong was I… A long way to go, but I found at the end I got into the swing and was getting some…