Tag: coloured pencils
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Eye Roll in Magenta
I was going to blend out some of the watercolour just to soften the lines a little, but then more drips happened, and it is Samhain and Halloween, so I decided the harshness worked. A fun exercise. Til the morn, Suzanne 257/300
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Big Bear Big Brush
100 Day Project Day 92 I really wanted to nail this today, but I’m stopping to let the paper rest before going in to fix the eye, and finishing up. It’s hilarious to me that I am avoiding like the plague another class piece because it’s watercolour, and yet I’ve dived in with this one…
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Beard Profile
100 Day Project Day 91 These drawings are both from the same reference, and it’s interesting the way they differ from each other. The first is small, in my A5 sketchbook, drawn using an HB mechanical pencil. The reference photo was in colour on my PC monitor, and quite small. The second drawing is on…
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Tuesday Museday
100 Day Project Day 87 We didn’t get to see any more Aurora because the short window there may have been some visible required a lack of cloud, which our postcode could not provide. This is not unusual. I guess you could say that aurora going on behind a blanket of cloud is another pretty…
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Developing Photos
100 Day Project Day 57 A little thing I have been doing recently is using my own landscape photos as references in my sketchbook practise. Sometimes it’s an exercise in colour and tonal value, and sometimes it’s about observing perspective, and sometimes it’s about rejecting parts of what is in the photo to make a…
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Resolve and Move On
100 Day Project Day 44 I finished my latest response to a Let’s Face It class today. I really enjoyed the process, even if I’m picking holes in the end result. There’s a lot wrong with the proportions of the face, but I didn’t really look properly until I was too far in with the…
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Toothiness
100 Day Project Day 41 I don’t think practise makes perfect, I think practise makes the process more fun, which is what I am having in my sketchbooks just now. I am really enjoying the way this ridiculous idea that I would blog every day about the art I made has somehow a) not been…
Thrummie Bizzum 