Category Archives: sketching

A Pensive Pose

Last week at life drawing group I really enjoyed drawing this 30-minute pose. The model looks quite pensive but I think that’s just how he looks when he’s holding a pose for half an hour – it’s not easy being a life model. I spent a lot of the time working on his face, analysingContinue reading “A Pensive Pose”

#Caturday Archive: 45

It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here’s another cat sketch from my sketchbook archives, January 2016. Sparta Puss looks like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth! Don’t be fooled. This is a quick sketch with Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens. I have three linocut prints in the Miniprint Cymru Wales exhibition in Mostyn in Llandudno, North Wales, openContinue reading “#Caturday Archive: 45”

Three Quick Faces

These are the first three poses at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, they were all 5 minutes. I like doing these quick sketches to warm up, because there’s so little time, you have to concentrate on the elements that capture the likeness of the person; there’s not enough time to getContinue reading “Three Quick Faces”

Models vs Others Following on from yesterdays post, I was talking about the difference between working with professional models and other people. Most are fine with sitting for a portrait sketch and are happy with the results, but there are some who find it hard to accept what they see. A few people want toContinue reading

It’s A Privilege…

Working with professional models is a privilege. I draw other people too, successfully and less so. Apart from the ability of a professional to hold poses, they don’t have any expectations from the artist. When I’m drawing or painting non-professionals, some, by no means all, can find it difficult to see themselves as I seeContinue reading “It’s A Privilege…”

#Caturday Archive: 44

It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here’s another cat sketch from my sketchbook archives, December 2015. It’s “Puss’n’Boot“, or Sparta Puss and my walking boot, with my foot in it. I was chilling with my feet up and Sparta Puss snuck in and made herself comfy so I scribbled her. I have three linocut prints inContinue reading “#Caturday Archive: 44”

A Statuesque Head

This is one of the professional models I have been working with at Swansea Print Workshop’s Life Drawing group. She has a wonderfully sculptural, statuesque head and body. I’m trying to reflect that in my drawing here, using a fairly academic style. It’s a 15 minute pose and I used graphite onto paper. I haveContinue reading “A Statuesque Head”

Drawing With Colour: 2

Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s another recent life drawing in colour, instead of my normal black and white. I’m going to try and do at least one colour drawing each session. I’m using Derwent Inktense blocks here onto a heavyweight white paper partly overlaid with a brown speckled Mulberry paper.

Drawing With Colour: 1

Mostly I draw in black on white, but now and again I mix it up a bit and get out some pastels or watercolour drawing blocks (like Derwent Inktense) and use a combination of fine line sketching (Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens) and watercolour drawn on and then wetted using a water reservoir brush.