Diana Rigg?

Posted on December 22, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black ink, Challenge, Diana Rigg, Drawing, Face, Face to Face, Portrait, Sketching, Trying to get a likenessLeave a comment

I do love drawing people, but there is less chance now of finding a subject. So when BBC 4 just showed a half hour interview with Diana Rigg in a programme called Face to Face from 1997? The image of her was full face far away, full face close to and profile images, so her face was fully in view was for approximately ten minutes. It’s a good bit of practice, as if you were drawing from life. The face never stops moving so you have to try and fix where the eyes are, how far apart, how long the nose? And the shape and size of the mouth. Plus the face shape. How long is her chin? How high her cheeks. Trying to see all of the face, not looking too closely at just one bit, so it fits?

Quick sketch

Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #skyportraitartistoftheyear, Art, Carlos Acosta, Drawing, Fun, Having a go, Life drawing, Portrait, SketchingLeave a comment

Fifteen minute sketch, #skyportraitartistoftheyear. I just tried drawing Carlos Acosta in mid air. Bit scrappy, charcoal pencil…

The winner of the competition, Curtis Holder is doing a ten thousand pounds commission portrait of Acosta for display in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

I wish the sitters were set up so you could watch TV and paint or draw them, it’s an enjoyable programme.

Sky portrait artist of the year programme

Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Portrait, Sketch, Sky portrait art is of the year, Thirty to forty minute drawingLeave a comment

Watched Sky Portrait artist of the year, semi final with Booker Prize winner, Bernadine Evaristo as the sitter. I got an image of her from the net and tried to draw her. It’s not a good likeness but I tried. Thirty to Forty minute drawing. Felt pens on cartridge paper.

Doodled face

Posted on December 4, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Artrage oils, Black and white, ddigital drawing, Digital doodle, Doodle, Face, Portrait, SketchLeave a comment

Doodle using a program called ArtRage oils. I started with some black “paint” then used a dry brush to spread it out. If you use this it sort of fades the paint. Then I changed to another brush which again uses a paint. I used a black, then white version of the tools to draw in a few sketchy details. This is drawn with a finger not a stylus.

Ten minute sketch

Posted on December 2, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged aart, Black and white sketch, Drawing, Life, Olympics, Portrait, Sketching, Sky portrait art is of the yearLeave a comment

Watching Sky Portrait artist of the year. I couldn’t find pictures of all the sitters so decided to draw Catherine Grainger from a photo on the Web, ten minute sketch.

I want to watch the programme so leaving it at this. I might do another one later.

selfie drawing?

Posted on November 26, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Female artist, Gif, learning to GIF, Portrait, self portrait, selfie 2020, SketchingLeave a comment

This is part of a set of drawings I did to learn how to make a GIF. its more complicated that I imagined. I managed to do it but you have to optimise files and do all sorts of things. Trouble is Ive forgotten what I did – maybe i should have another go.

The drawing built up over several frames. In the missle was a wild swirling pattern and then it built back down to the original sketch.. I wish I could run it here but I dont think I have enough memory and I dont know if WordPress works with GIFs?

an old painting

Posted on November 26, 2020 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Friend, Life, Loss, Oil on canvas, Painting, Portrait, Present, reclining, Sad, small fileLeave a comment

unfortunatley I only have this small file of a painting I did at college over forty years ago. It was a painting of a fellow student called Ann. I was really pleased with it and only parted with it because a friend really wanted it, I also gave my ‘friend’ a few other paintings for Christmas and birthdays. I found out later my ‘friend’ and her husband burnt them on a bonfire because he did not like them. Suffice to say I am no longer friends with her. I cant tell you how upset I was when I found out….

Oil on canvas about 1981?

Face sketch

Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Image, Life, Pencil sketch, Portrait, Sketch, Sky portrait artist of the week, Twenty minutes2 Comments

Tried drawing Jane Horrocks in twenty minutes while watching Sky Portrait artist of the week. Done with a blunt spectrum noir pencil crayon. Where’s my sharpener when I need it? I couldn’t find an image from the day so I used a stock one. I’m afraid it looks a bit more like another celebrity, Annika Rice?

9 years ago

Posted on November 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Agricultural show, Art, Cow, Digital drawing, Face, Fun, Humour, Memory, Portrait, SketchfuLeave a comment

We were visiting an agricultural show in Devon several years ago when I took the original photo. Then nine years ago I tried to copy it at the sketchfu website I used to draw at. The colours are a bit off because I took a photo of this from a screen and this is what I saved. The original drawing probably had more detail….

Emotions

Posted on November 12, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Argument, Art, Concentration, Drawing, Face, Looking, Pencil sketch, Portrait, Sadness, Thinking2 Comments

What emotions or feelings do you think are shown in this portrait? Anger, sadness, upset? Concentration or thought?

Sometimes it’s hard to tell. I know I drew this a couple of years ago and the sitter was, I think, either listening to the radio or watching TV. I think the look is concentration. Some peoples can sag when they are in repose. I know it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, but sometimes a face takes on a characteristic look, a shape it settles into. That’s this look…

Mallaband-Brown

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