Tips Blog — Sketchbook

HOTSHOT 28- A Portrait Sketch Process and a Workshop date in London

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Adebanji Alade's One day Workshop on Sketching The Human face in London

Adebanji Alade’s One day Workshop on Sketching The Human face in London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi guys, I am back here again, this time with a process of how I sketch a portrait using the angles and block-ins. In this method I start from sketching the overall angles from one spot and continue to flow through the sketch, bringing each phase to completion as I go along. I also have a date and venue set for my Sketching the Human Face Workshop on Saturday, 14th of July, 2018 in London, make it a date. I’ll talk about that at the end of this post.

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HOT SHOT 25- My portrait drawing process and a Workshop date to save.

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Hi guys, It’s nice to be back here again! This is Hotshot 25! This shows my process of drawing a portrait. It is quite hard to document every stage and sometimes my process does change a bit, but this is the most common method I normally use to approach a drawing from the beginning to the end.

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HOT SHOT 24- ADEBANJI SKETCHES A SCULPTED HEAD (PART 1)

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Hey there, it’s great to share here again! This time I have a series of clips on how I sketch heads. Even though I am sketching from a sculpted head here, the same principles apply when I sketch a real human head.

Also at the end of this post I’ll share a few things I have been up to and some things I have planned for the summer.

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HOTSHOT 23- 100 PEOPLE SKETCHES IN ONE WEEK 2017

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Hi there, I am back with the hot shots and I hope this fires you to start a challenge of your own. In this HOTSHOT I share a challenge I gave myself, to sketch 100 people in one week. You’ll see my sketchbook throughout the week in video and in detail here for your sketchinspiration!!

Let’s start with the the video clip

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HOT SHOT 22-YOUR SKETCHBOOK AS A JOURNAL

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Hi there, I’m back with the HOT SHOTS and this time I have the first part of a series that looks into my sketchbooks and gives you an idea of what I’m thinking about and why I choose to sketch certain people I meet on public transport.

Towards the end of the post I’ll also send you some links to some recent stuff I have been involved in.

But for now lets start on HOT SHOT 22- Using your sketchbook as a journal.

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