Here are my most recent portraits.
Portrait 93/100
Portrait 94/100
Portrait 95/100 (wrong no. on the artwork!)
Portrait 96/100 (wrong no. on the artwork!)
Here are my most recent portraits.
Portrait 93/100
Portrait 94/100
Portrait 95/100 (wrong no. on the artwork!)
Portrait 96/100 (wrong no. on the artwork!)
Sktchy has been running occasional art challenges on Instagram featuring a particular person who has inspired lots of artists and one particular photo to draw. Portrait 84 was done for Sktchy's latest art challenge.
84/100
For portrait 85, I drew a Sktchy inspiration photo of the coolest kid. I love her sunglasses, hat, Mother Teresa tank, and frog!
Portrait 85/100
This is her brother, whom I've drawn previously. They look like such a fun family!
Portrait 72/100
Here are my recent portraits for the 100 Day Project using inspiration photos from Sktchy.
Which do you like best?
Here are my most recent portraits for The !00 Day Project.
64/100 - Collin McCrary
65/100 - Lizbeth Aleman
66/100 - Jane Cobb
67/100 - Patrick Gao
Here are some recent portraits of my 100 day project.
One thing I definitely love about the Sktchy app is being able to pay tribute to artist who inspire or support you by drawing them! I did that with varying degrees of success over the last few days.
Vin Ganapathy is a huge inspiration for me. He has been one of my teachers at Sketchbook Skool and is one of the first artists from whom I've bought original artwork! I love his portraits done primarily in Tombow brush pens. They are so expressive! I used my watercolors, Kuretake brush pen, and some of Marc Taro Holmes's watercolor techniques to draw Vin here. I loved the shadows in this inspiration photo.
Vin Ganapathy
Jane Royal is a beautiful water colorist who I've met on Sktchy. She paints people with the minimum of graphite lines and really lets the watercolors do their magic. She has been very supportive of my art. I wish I had captured her likeness better here. Nut, it's the thought hat counts, right?
Jane Royal
Who are your favorite artists? Have you drawn or painted them?
I haven't posted my latest portraits in some time! Though you can always click on the link above to see my entire 100 day portrait.
17/100 - Sharon
18/100 - Julie
19/100- Kristen
20/100 - Alexandria
21/100 - Kiana & Gloria
22/100 - Self-Portrait
23/100
24/100 - Jül
25/100
26/100
27/100 - Chloe
28/100
29/100
30/100 - Aicha
31/100 - Dark Stone
32/100 - Megan
33/100 - Honig
34/100
And finally, yesterday's portrait.
35/100
Thanks for following along!
This weekend, I talked this portrait of my friend's nephew.
In tackling this portrait, I decided to start with my pencil and then use watercolor. I didn't start with my normal fountain pen with Platinum carbon black ink.
Pencil and watercolor without ink
This was a departure from my normal style, but I kind of liked it. So, I posted it on Sktchy and asked for feedback. The majority of the feedback was that I should leave the portrait as is - and the hardest thing with watercolor is knowing when to stop!
So, I thought I would tackle this next portrait of Kiana - in my usual style with fountain pen and ink first and watercolor next.
What do you think? Which do you prefer - watercolor & pencil or ink & watercolor?
Sktchy is a fun and inspiring app for artists and people who want to inspire artists. Each weekend, Sktchy has a themed Weekend Art Extravaganza (#WAX). This past weekend, it was #WAXhandy and the challenge was to make art featuring hands. Here are my contributions.
The funny thing is that I was recently explaining my 100 day portrait project to someone in my figure drawing group and how I undertook it to improve a weakness I felt I had with portraits. I was saying that I have such trouble with drawing hands that I was telling her that I should do a 100 day project with hands and feet! I don't know if I can do 100 of those, but drawing hands for this weekend was challenging and fun!
What is your experience with drawing hands and feet? Do you relish the challenge or find it easy?
I was inspired by Sktchy's weekend crosshatch challenge to pull out the Koh-I-Noor Magic multi-color pencils to do these drawings. It was fun!
Sktchy
Sktchy baby feet & hands
Kiana & Gloria
Have you tried them? What do you think?
This weekend, I took a trip to Monterey, Carmel, and Pacific Grove with my friends, Julie and Sharon. I had a lot of fun introducing them to the Sktchy app and drawing them!
Sharon - portrait 7/100
Julie - portrait 18/100
I drew this at lunch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We had an awesome table with this lovely view.
Our lunchtime view
Moterey Bay
I'm exited to start working on illustrating a book about Greek mythology with my good friend, Steve. We are starting with Athena, the goddess of wisdom and warfare. All I know physically about Ahena is that she has gray eyes.
So, in doing my 16th portrait for the 100 day project, I thought I would look for an inspiration for Athena. I love Marissa Poetzl's light eyes in the inspiration photo for this drawing.
Marissa Poetzl
What do you think - does she look like a good Athena?