Watercolor pencil and marker portrait of woman in 3/4 view

This is a little doodle I did with some watercolor pencils and I finished it up with a marker.  It is an ok picture and really a project that was a practice piece.  I wish I had my kneaded erasure with me so I could have lifted out some of the pencil that I used for the basic drawing- it just goes to show you that you should always be prepared.

Using watercolor pencils are not something I do often but I didn't want to get all involved with setting up my paints. Watercolor pencils are easy to sketch with and then you can wash over them to blend and deepen the colors. They are a little hard for me to control still but I hope with more practice that I will get the hang of it.

The picture turned out a little more representational than I wanted it to look I was hoping for something more artsy.

Watercolor pencil and marker portrait.

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Portrait in Color Pencil of Sundown Woman

This is a drawing I did with colored pencils. I was trying to get a rough effect and use the line of the pencil to crate a spontaneous look. I think it turned out OK. but I'll just put it away since it is not my best effort. The yellow was a little overpowering. So I tried to tone it down but it just got things looking muddy. This is because I was working in bad lighting.

I named the project Sundown because I was listening to an old Gordon Lightfoot song about a woman named Sundown.

Sundown, Portrait  in Colored Pencil 

If it wasn't for the yellow I would have been very happy.

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Color Pencil Drawing of a Boy

Here is a color pencil drawing I did in a sketchbook. It is very expressive and cheerful.

Color Pencil Drawing of a Boy.

This young boy had such big eyes I had to draw him.

I do not know why but I had a lot of trouble with my pencils on this paper; maybe it was the temperature or the humidity but I just was not happy with the way they were blending.  I was hoping it would look cleaner than it did.  I am generally happy with the results though and will continue to draw.   It is part of the learning process I know I am getting better all the time.


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A Portrait In Pencil of A Man Looking Away.

A portrait of a man looking away. 

I drew this over a few days It is drawn in colored pencil. I was surprised at how easily these colored pencils erased with either a kneaded erasure or a vinyl erasure. It shows the benefit of getting and using the best.

I liked how colorful I was able to make him; it took a lot of study of the picture I was working on to perceive the colors and bring them out. I did a lot of rubbing in the face and none in the hair or the jacket. It gives the portrait a lot of contrast in textures. The face was mostly warm colors and the cold of the blue jacket really sets it off nicely.  I really love to draw faces like this with a lot of color in them.

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Pencil Sketch of a Young Girl Dancing in a Daisy Field

Here is a sketch I did from a picture in a magazine. There was this little girl dancing in a field of flowers, and  she had such a coy pose that I couldn't resist drawing her.  I drew this in my drawing book and used colored pencils. Even though I used colored pencils I still use a blending stub a lot. I find if you use the blending stub over the under drawing the top layers really flow nicely. You have to use a lot more pressure with a blending stub on colored medium than you would with charcoal and you need a different stub for each color since the colors do transfer but I feel it is worth it.  This drawing took about 4 hours and I worked on it off and on for over a week.  Normally I don't do much with the surrounding environment but I felt that she needed a place in time so I drew an impression of the flower field.  The trick was to not let her dissolve into the background since her dress was blue and the background was green, though they are complementary colors I wanted some contrast.  I had to darken the dress and lighten the green grass to keep her forward. A blue dress or shirt is always a good contrast when the subject has warm skin tones. The face was smaller than I like to do but it turned out well, maybe I will just sketch her  face at a future date.



I had trouble with my sketchbook on the scanner and got some unfortunate shadows.

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Color Pencil Sketch of a Young Woman

This is a picture I sketched in color pencils using Prismacolor Pencils in a Strathmore 400 series sketchbook.  This drawing took about 6 hours.  I found a photo of a young woman in a catalogue that came in the mail. She had a nice pose. But what I liked was the warm colors in the photo and I wanted to do something with warm colors since I have been doing a lot of charcoal sketches lately. The nice thing about the Prismacolor pencils is their rich color and the smooth way they blend together. I used a blending stub to blend but find you have to use a lot of pressure. If you blend you find reapplying another layer of color more brilliant and follow up blending is even more brilliant. I try to avoid the use of black and prefer to blend colors together to get a richer dark but in this portrait I did use a little black on the eyelashes. I am very happy with the Strathmore paper it is very forgiving of mistakes and even with colored pencil I can erase with both a kneaded erasure and a latex erasure. I think it turned out very well.  

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