It’s been 3,5 months since I last did a self-portrait. I didn’t even realize that. I started out with this as an ink drawing, but was not very happy about it. It was imprecise and a little carelessly made, so I spontanously grabbed a fineliner pen and started drawing on top of it.. I think … Read more
There has been a lot of hand drawings floating around on the reddit these last days, so I felt like drawing hands too. I did one yesterday, and then here’s another one. Don’t forget to join the rest of the people submitting their daily drawings to the reddit /r/onedrawingdaily – You don’t strictly have to … Read more
Here’s a quick and messy sketch of my hand. It’s pencil and some kind of charcoal.. (Sepia dark..? the pencil is brown, but it ends up almost black) Kirkistan among others suggested that I throw in a good old-fashioned “real life” sketch once in a while. It does feel good, I admit it!
I thought that I would show you one of my problems when doing self-portraits.. I have this little make-up mirror that i bought for almost nothing, but when buying it i didn’t think about the size of my head. If i place it sufficiently far away, I can’t see it well enough, and when it … Read more
Just 30 minutes i said to myself, and i rushed this one. I’m quite happy about it, though i look very weird. See my other 30 self-portraits here
This one actually looks like me. I’m really happy about it. I sat in front of a strong lamp with warm light – not nearly as warm is in the painting – this, obviously is an error.. But a good one i dare say. I thought that i did the same colour-blend as is the … Read more
Maybe i should have tones the pupils a bit down. Learning watercolour will be a lot of trial and error. I think that I’m off to a good start. I got a lot of suggestions on one of my posts yesterday concerning the colors for skin – I tried a mix of yellow, red and … Read more
This is a leaf that I’ve had lying around since there were still some leafs on the trees.. It’s gotten a little crisp since then. It doesnt’t look a lot like the “original”, but who cares. See my earlier leafs here
I don’t know much about colours, but approaching this one, i thought that i saw some red and some green in my hand. These two tints are ofcourse very sutle on a base of “skin-tone” – i don’t know what else to call this color – but i didn’t know how to get the skin-tone, … Read more
So this is real watercolour-paper, and i can clearly see the difference from the other “smooth” paper i have been using. This one absorbs a lot more water, and the colour spreads easily with the water. There’s definetly some ground-rules to get down in terms of wet on wet vs wet on dry – and … Read more