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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Mixed Media Study For a Portrait in Modern Style.

This painting is a study I did in watercolor, ink, and gesso of a woman. In this study, I was trying to work out the colors and overall feel of the project. It is the third step in this project since I have already completed two sketches of the same portrait. There are moments I feel pretty discouraged and am considering scrapping the project and going onto something more fun and less work, and at other times I feel like this is going to work out nicely.

I see some things I am going to change on the final project. I tried to use fountain pen ink to do some shading, but I think it turned out inconsistent with the overall feel. Another is that I used a felt-tipped ink brush on some of the lines, and I think it looked amateurish, so I will use a liner brush on the final. I will still keep the pen and ink for some of the drawing aspects of the picture, such as the facial features and the sweater. I think I am mostly happy with the colors, but I think I will work in more yellow as a first step to give the face some sort of highlights. I need to add some highlights to the nose in different places and correct the jaw-line.
I think I will make my face a little thinner.

I am working in watercolor since my studio is too small to accommodate much else, but I think this would make a nice oil painting.

Mixed media portrait TEVY

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Mixed Media Portrait of Young Woman Named Zoey

Here is a project I did in a day. It is a portrait of a young woman in three-quarters view so the face is slightly turned away and in this case, the chin is up so she is tilted back a little.

It is mixed media. I started with a pencil sketch then used ink to put in some of the basic lines. I used water based markers to sketch in some parts such as the hair and the background. The majority of the area was done in watercolor. I early on chose the cooler colors to complement the effect of her pose. She is blond but I decided to use blue and white in the hair. I used white gesso in the hair and parts of the face, and background then used black gesso on other areas. I use acrylic on parts of the hair and face.

Mixed Media portrait of a young woman named Zoey

I am mostly happy with this picture but I wish it was more than just a face.

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Modern style portrait of woman.

This is a portrait I did in watercolor and acrylic of a young woman. It was inspired by a woman on the beach. I wanted to use a lot of colors and to keep things modern. The black and the white is acrylic.

It is painted on watercolor paper with Windsor Newton mediums. I used only three small brushes.

Portrait of a Young Woman in Mixed Media

I worked on it a lot longer than I wanted and like usual the concept was nothing like my finished project. I did not want to do something this representational but was hoping for more abstract with the face being an element but not the focus. I wanted to use the black as an accent but got a little involved with it and it became a secondary subject. The background was too bright and too sharp, so I gave the background a watery wash with black acrylic to dull it down and that gave the face and hair areas bright contrast.

I was trying to show the black coming in at one side and leaving the other.

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Modern Style Portrait Of A Woman In A Black Hat.

This is a mixed media portrait I did of a woman wearing a black hat. I painted it on watercolor paper using watercolor, acrylic, markers, and gesso.

I started with several sketches and then splashed a lot of blue and violet watercolor on the paper. After that dried I began to use markers to start the details. I developed the face with acrylic paint. I try to not use black but lately I have been a little enthralled with the possibilities of its effect on a colorful picture.  I was afraid that I would get carried away but I managed to hold back a little. I used gesso both white and black to tone the colors down.

I found myself working over different places several times to get it right; which is something I do not like to do in watercolor since the colors bleed into each other, but it worked out beautifully.

At first, I was going to leave the hair white but the picture needed more color so I went with the model's hair color, but not in total since I was not really trying to do a portrait but art. If you want the picture to look like the subject then you should take a photo but I wanted to do something more.

I had a lot of fun painting this and hope you enjoy looking at it.

Mixed Media Portrait Of A Young Woman

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Mixed Media Portrait Face of Young Man Named Shawn

This is a picture of a young man's face that was drawn in pencil on water color paper that was splattered wit browns reds oranges and yellows. I traced the face with a water based ink marker which were washed with clear water to soften the effects.The details were redrawn drawn with black gesso and white gesso. The final touches were with acrylic paint.

Mixed Media Portrait of a Young Man

It is nice and a little more developed than I had hoped since I was aiming for something a little more suggestive and abstract.

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Mixed Media Portrait of Young Woman

This was a doodle I did with pencils and Sharpie (R) marker. I am doing a little bit of experimentation with combining media.

Mixed Media Portrait Of Woman Looking Down

I did a quick light scribble sketch in graphite first which I lifted out with a kneaded erasure which left faint lines.  Then I went over it with color pencils then finished with Sharpie (R) marker.  I want to have my work look like a drawing so I keep things loose.  It was only a doodle and if it was a serious project I would have spent more time on it and developed things more. I finished with a little white charcoal pencil to restore some highlights. For some reason, they didn't scan in so well.

The flatbed scanner made the white blue for some reason.

Mixmedia Portrait Of A Young Man With a Tilt to his head.

This is a portrait I did of a man.  The face is slightly turned.  I used pen and markers and watercolor.  I was thinking of doing something a little more experimental but just enjoyed drawing him so much that I didn't play with the different techniques that I intended.

Portrait in mix media of a young man.

I started the drawing with an HB pencil on some practice watercolor paper, then went over it with a .1mm marker after that I used some watercolors.  I didn't want to make the picture too common and was going to play with other colors but actually toned down the abstraction that I wanted to do.  I might try a different approach next time.

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Mixed media portrait of a man

Here is a portrait I drew of a young man. I used sharpie and markers. Then I gave a wash with a brush and water over it to give the marker a watercolor effect. I was going to do more but was interrupted and lost interest in the project. I use some black guesso on a liner brush to deepen the black of the Sharpie.

Portrait with mixed media. 

Charcoal And Pencil Sketch of Woman Over Shoulder

I started with an hb graphite pencil and then used a stub to blend some to make an underdrawing of the face. I then used a darker pencil and moved on from there to several charcoal pencils to deepen the values in the face. I worked out the hair almost as an afterthought. I used a white charcoal to add some highlights, the paper was white, (it doesn't show well), so the white was only a half value but I think it worked.

Woman Portrait in mixed media

I was trying to get the contrast of the hair and the dark shadows in the face she had brown hair but I gave it a lighter value to strengthen the contrast. I wanted the drawing to look like a drawing so I kept some of the pencil work rough and refrained from using the blending stub so much.

I wanted the face to be rougher than it turned out but It seems to work.

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Mixed Media Portrait of Young Man

I drew this to pass the time and to practice a different technique. I started with pencil for a basic layout of the face. Then I used a black conte' wax pencil to go over parts of it. After that I used watercolor pencils to lay in the values and in different areas. I washed over the watercolor pencil with a small number 2 brush using clear water to spread the watercolor pencil. I finished with a little panes grey watercolor to deepen a few areas for contrast.

Mixed Media Portrait.  

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Mixed Media Portrait of a Young Woman.

This portrait is of a model from an advertisement that came in the mail. This is drawn in multi media using mostly wax pencil for the browns and black and professional color pencils for the some subtle tones. I used a blending stub extensively on this which was a challenge since the wax pencils do not blend well. I had to go back over it with a vinyl eraser to restore some of the highlights, I normally do not use a vinyl eraser since it damages the paper but the paper in my sketchbook was already marred by pressure of drawings on previous pages.

I used a scanner to transfer  this to the web and the scanner was a cheep one which gives the paper a rosy tone, the picture is really a nice one to see in real life. 





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Portrait of a Dog in Mixed Pencil And Charcoal

This dog was drawn in charcoal pencil, and graphite pencil. I saw this in newspaper advertisement and used the advertisement as a subject in a class for some home schooled kids I was teaching at that time. Dogs are very gratifying to draw because of their nature that mixes nobility and playfulness. The challenge of animals is to get the fur just right.

A charcoal sketch of a dog.

This took me about three hours to draw.  It is drawn in a cheep sketchbook.  The paper had a nice tooth to it but lacked permanence and already shows early signs of yellowing.  I almost always use acid free paper now for practice.