[My challenge is to draw a face from the front page of the Seattle Times from that day.]
Like I said, I live in Seattle. Other big news today is the new CEO of Microsoft. His picture was on the front page today.
This is a pen and ink drawing, kind of a little semi-blind, colored with Derwent watercolor pencils which I did not apply water to. I discovered that unlike regular colored pencils, these don't like to many layers of color. After I had gotten the skin color sort of like I wanted I was reluctant to add water for fear of ruining it, so I didn't. (I don't like it as well as the watercolor ones though).
This was drawn from a photo on the front page of the Seattle Times February 5, 2014. It was credited with Microsoft.
I like this series! ♥
ReplyDeleteI like the watercolor ones better too, but I still think this is great. There's a lot of character here.
ReplyDeleteAnd, just to let you know, I'm stealing your idea of doing a drawing each day from the paper, because it's such a GREAT idea!
Just great! Really like your style.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great character!
ReplyDeleteYou did great ! I have done a few pieces with watercolor pencil, mostly fruits and I have done all the shading before I wet and I wet from the lightest to the darkest and I keep the brush rinsed with clean water to keep from contaminating the work. Will have to try a face.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tips Marilyn, I'll try that. I always want to do the darks first, even when I know I shouldn't! It's a constant battle.
DeleteThanks everyone for the nice comments.