Tag Archive: “art”

Portrait Sketches

Some random portrait sketches from this summer:

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A fun development this fall was discovering Fear of Art, a group founded by some high school acquaintances. They organize monthly “Drink and Draw” events that are a great way to get a little experience life drawing. I’ve attended two so far. Here are some of the pictures I drew at the September and November meetups, respectively:

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Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014. Tags: , .

Grease Pencil Portraits

Portrait session

Posted on Friday, February 21st, 2014. Tags: .

Making Faces Videos

I’ve been recording some time lapse videos of sketch sessions. Recorded at 5 seconds per frame; played at 5 frames per second. (25×?)

That last one is not of portrait drawing, of course, but of painting a 3D-printed landscape model.

I’m using the lamp clip I designed and fabricated with my Printrbot to hold my phone for these recordings. I’m using Frameographer by the folks at Studio Neat to record the videos (and, sometimes, iMovie for iOS to combine and/or spruce up clips before uploading).

Posted on Monday, February 10th, 2014. Tags: , .

Sketches

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I like the vertical line base layer in the one on the left.

Posted on Friday, January 24th, 2014. Tags: .

Portraits

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Getting a bit carried away with the twee filter effects.

Posted on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014. Tags: .

Portrait Sketches

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Posted on Saturday, January 11th, 2014. Tags: .

Bitmap Bikes

Drawn on my telephone, just the way Picasso did.

Posted on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013. Tags: .

Portrait Doodles

Phone photo collages of some recent sketches:

EPDS Test babez

Content with none, but there’s something I like in each. So, reason to do more.

Posted on Sunday, September 1st, 2013. Tags: , .

Maple Seed

Old maple seed

Posted on Wednesday, June 12th, 2013. Tags: , .

Fabric Marker Face

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As long-time followers may know, now and then I draw on my old MacBook with markers. Here’s a recent portrait, drawn finger paint style with a fabric marker. The fabric marker ink behaves curiously on this smooth surface – amenable to smudging or scraping erasure, depending whether it’s wet or dry. The mix of textured shading and inky black blots makes this one of my favorite looks in recent memory.

Posted on Friday, March 22nd, 2013. Tags: , , .