He has been on my back for a while and just before he decided to cut his beard he got me to sketch him. It took 30 minutes, he was kind of sleepy during the sitting, but it came out fine. I used black and brown coloured pencils on an A4 sheet of catridge paper.
I took a picture early in the morning at Waterloo station last year and decided to make a drawing out of it. This one was done in coloured pencil with some sanguine dust and the help of puuty rubber for special effects and highlights. I wanted to create that morning feel on platform 4 at waterloo station in the morning. It was a bit misty too so I really worked into this one loosing as much detail...
As usual, this is my delight. I have started using the sketchpad back and front it creates a kind of nice feeling, compostiton wise, some work some clash. Here are a few examples.
I have a got a friend(Chrissey) at work, she always loves my pictures, she brought up this picture of a little boy she said was her grandson.
I loved the play opf light on his features and I made a 2 hour sketch of the picture she provided.
This seemed to be one the first times that I didn't need to scale the picture but I just went direct with intuitive measurements and it came out quite ok.
Recently I was passing by this shop in Chelsea, it had these model manikins wearing clothes for sale. I was particularly interested in the light that fell on this models face and how it portrayed the feminine strength in her. I took some pictures and then I went on to work on it, attacking it a bit emotionally with wild strokes and colours with pastel and coloured pencil, the result was quite...
