Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Leuchtturm sketchbook

I had so much fun finishing this tiny 3"x5" sketchbook.  Ink brush and wash (water brush) with neon orange underdrawing.  Extremely portable, able to get a range of values, a good mix of drawing and painting....Interesting to see them en mass.  By and large I like how most of them turned out, but seeing them all together like this, I don't know that I necessarily achieved my goal of emphasizing value patterns over details...and I realized this as I was drawing too, but oh well.  I think it has something to do with how I construct my drawings, often using details as points of measurement.




TIme to make another trip to Flax, heh heh!

Monday, November 9, 2015

Benedict Cumberbatch

Great actor (especially in Sherlock!) with a really interesting face, which is why I decided to paint him just for fun and practice.  I used the cardboard back of a watercolor block, which is not ideal as a surface - it degrades quickly and absorbs water - but it was still usable.  Overall pretty happy with the result.  One of these days I'm going to have to think more carefully about rendering curly hair. hmmmm...